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CHRISTINE RAINS
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Review of Cupid's Corset, Harlow!: Ask Crystal Ball Mystery #3
Blurb: Harlow Grayson protects her heart with an iron corset… …and sticking to her cynical view of Valentine’s Day seems safer than...
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Feb 102 min read


Review of Incidents Around the House
Blurb: To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a...
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Feb 32 min read


Review of The Troop
Blurb: Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition...
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Jan 272 min read


Review of Step Into Christmas
Blurb: Get ready to sleigh into the holiday spirit with Step Into Christmas, a heartwarming collection of short stories, each one...
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Jan 201 min read


Review of Dungeons and Drama
Blurb : When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! Musical lover...
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Jan 132 min read


Review of This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)
Blurb: They call it Faction Wars. The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team...
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Dec 2, 20242 min read


Review of The Librarian of the Haunted Library
Blurb: My escape from a creepy clown lands me in a town straight out of a fever dream. And guess what? I become the new librarian after...
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Nov 25, 20242 min read


Review of Beyond Starlight: An Alien Fated Mate Boxset
Blurb: To the deepest reaches of the galaxy these warriors will fight to find their fated mates. When their females are at the lowest in...
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Nov 19, 20243 min read


Review of Cult of the Covens (Sleuths of Shadow Salon #3)
Blurb: Can the team untangle a feud between covens, both drug lords of mysterious elixirs, before a supernatural war explodes? Celestine...
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Nov 4, 20243 min read


Review of Donn's Hill (The Soul Searchers Mysteries #1)
Blurb: Mackenzie Clair needs a fresh start. The death of her father and a broken relationship rendered her old life unlivable. What...
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Oct 21, 20242 min read


Review of The Death Witch
Blurb: The world was destroyed by angry gods at the end of the 22nd century, but humanity survived. Now it's AL 1040 and the world is a...
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Oct 14, 20242 min read


Review of The Graystone Killings (Ella Mills #1)
Blurb: GRAYSTONE MANOR HAS A CHEQUERED PAST. BUT SOME THINGS CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN... Ella Mills considers her life to have a...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read


Review of The Sneaky Lass (The Silver Locket #1)
Blurb: Jane has been many things in her life. A wife. A widow. A thief. A prostitute. Most recently, a woman seeking any means of escape...
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Sep 30, 20243 min read


Review of Bloodstone (Lost Witch Book #1)
Blurb: Family secrets hold the key to buried magic. Her legacy awaits. Katelyn Grey is a gardener in Southern California. She’s content...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read


Review of The Curse of King Midas
Blurb: The curse of King Midas is real. In the ancient kingdom of Phrygia, tribal boy Karem Savas thirsts for revenge against King...
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Sep 16, 20242 min read


Review of The Hex Next Door (Witches of Moondale #1)
Blurb: What’s a little necromancy between family? For the Crow Witch, Icarus "Rus" Ashthorne, Moondale seemed the perfect hiding place....
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Sep 2, 20242 min read


Review of Time-Marked Warlock (The Chronos Chronicles #1)
Blurb: Adair Finch is the most powerful warlock in the world, and one of the best private investigators for hire. He has dealt with...
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Aug 26, 20242 min read


Review of Paranormal Hunters (Magical Hunters Academy #1)
Blurb: An untrained witch. An orphan. A teenager looking for her place in the world that’s a lot larger than she ever realized…...
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Aug 19, 20242 min read


Review of Annalise (Virtue & Vice #1)
Blurb: When Annalise Fernsby went in search of answers about her father's past, she found Countess Oreste...and an intriguing world full...
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Aug 12, 20242 min read


Review of Deep Curse: A Mermaid Romance
Blurb: A thousand year curse. A mythical creature of the deep. Is true love enough to save a cursed mermaid? Arik Grayson has made the...
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Aug 5, 20242 min read


Review of The Haunting of Ashburn House
Blurb: Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and restless ghosts still walk the halls. They say it's the dwelling place of something cruel and sinister. But when Adrienne―desperate and in need of a place to stay―inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline... until darkness falls. Strange messages are etched into the walls. Furniture moves when she leaves the room. There's something here―something powerful, angry, and
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6 days ago2 min read


Review of The Final Girl Support Group
Blurb: Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no ma
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Nov 102 min read


Release Day for The Twelve Knots of Christmas
She hates the fuss people make over the holidays, but these gorgeous Alphas are about to give her a gift she never knew she wanted. Christmas has long lost its magic for Mariska Belmont. She has no time for the festive fluff because she’s preparing to move to the west coast for the job of her dreams. Yet when she meets three hot Alphas at a Christmas tree farm, she’s torn between working under sunny California skies and her growing feelings for the pack. The Alphas of Silver
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Nov 31 min read


Halloween Treats!
HAPPY (early) HALLOWEEN! It's my favorite time of the year. I love the cool, crisp weather and the spooky events. I've been reading some great horror books this year. Check out my reviews if you're looking to add any to your TBR list. I'm going to help add to your list with two treats! Both of these books are FREE from today through November 1st! When players are offered the choice between tedious research and fighting a dragon, the players always choose the dragon. Even when
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Oct 281 min read


Review of All Hallows
Blurb: It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, horrifying secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified, and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The C
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Oct 202 min read


Review of The Man With No Shadow (How to Survive Camping #1)
Blurb: I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying to keep you from doing...
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Oct 133 min read


Review of The Bewitching
Blurb: “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her...
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Oct 62 min read


Prepping for the Festive Season
Now available for pre-order: She hates the fuss people make over the holidays, but these gorgeous Alphas are about to give her a gift she...
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Sep 292 min read


Review of Shades of Shame
Blurb: One night changed everything. What began as a carefree evening with friends ended in an act of sexual assault that shattered...
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Sep 223 min read


Review of The Library at Hellebore
Blurb: The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the...
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Sep 152 min read
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