Ketchup Clouds was written by Annabel Pitcher and read by Julie Maisey. Zoe’s family members are each trying to deal with their own problems. Both of her parents are lawyers, although her mother has not practiced law in several years. Her dad recently lost his...

I have to admit that I am a LONG time Gail Carriger fan. I have three copies of her Parasol Protectorate series, and was thrilled to get a chance to review the latest in her young adult series, Curtsies and Conspiracies. We re-join Sophronia on...

Night of Cakes & Puppets by Laini Taylor is a lovely story and one that stays in your mind long after it's finished. It's magical, romantic, funny, and endearing. The characters are so well developed that they seem real and as if they are in...

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci’s King and Maxwell. Tyler Wingo hires King and Maxwell to solve the mystery surrounding his father, a soldier in Afghanistan, who was reported as a fatality. The teen and his father had a secret code that...

It's the most intense Alex Cross thriller yet. In this latest novel by James Patterson, Cross is up to his eyeballs in murder and kidnapping and kitchen remodeling. Somebody is on a murder spree and the victims are massage parlor employees and patrons. Cross and...

What could be better than spending a snowy day cuddled up by a fire with a cup of hot tea and a Pendergast novel? White Fire by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child reunites my favorite detective Pendergast and his protégée Corrie Swanson. We first met...

Mara has never had much of a plan for her life. She’s always thought of herself as nobody important, nothing special. But all of a sudden, things are beginning to change in Law Man It all begins with a broken sink, but that’s definitely not...

This is a review of the audio version of The Visionist: A Novel written by Rachel Urquhart. Polly Kimball’s father was cruel and violent. While her father slept, fifteen-year-old Polly loaded her mother and brother into the wagon. Polly took the lantern and went back...

When Emily, the civilian 'sorter' for calls relating to cold cases, brings Detective Harry Bosch the latest round of possibles to investigate, she mentions a mysterious caller had identified the killer of a homosexual teenager back in 1992. This starts Bosch looking into the case...

I was first introduced the talented Tiffany Baker in her book The Gilly Salt Sisters. Her latest book is Mercy Snow. The plot takes place in a small town in Titan Falls, home of the Titan Paper Mill. The paper mill was owned by the...

Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley is definitely romance with sizzle. Tyra Masters had no idea what she was getting into when she fell for her new boss, a sexy, dreamy, tattooed, muscle-bound biker dude. From the moment the two met at a barbecue there was...

Comedian, actress and activist, Jenny McCarthy can now add New York Times bestselling author to her list of accomplishments. She had me laughing out loud as I listened to her book, Bad Habits. Jenny was raised as a Roman Catholic and shares a variety of...

College roommates can be one heck of a thing. Either they are complete psychos and you end up hating each other, wondering how you are going to end the school year alive, OR they are the most amazing friends, and end up being the people...

Hate List is the story of what is left behind when the dust settles after a school shooting, and those who are left pick up the pieces of their fragile and newly broken lives. Valerie's boyfriend opened fire in the school cafeteria nearly 6 months...

Say Something expands on the world that Jennifer Brown created in Hate List. A prequel of sorts, Say Something delves into the issues of bullying, friendship, and forgiveness that were so powerful in Hate List. David Judy is bullied continuously for his soft spoken, gentle...

Erased, by author Jennifer Rush, is the second book in this series and picks up where Altered left off. Anna, Sam, Nick, and Cass were on the run from the Branch. Their life had been altered, their memories wiped out and new memories created. The...

Countdown by Alan Weisman is a cogent, thorough, impeccably researched wake up call to our human race, teetering on the brink of impending extinction due to overpopulation and over-consumption. Apart from presenting a compelling argument that we must curb our natural instinct to proliferate or...

Deep in the Ethiopian jungle in times of war, a reclusive order of Coptic monks guards the most sacred relic in all of Christendom - the Holy Grail. An epic cast of characters vies for the prize; some with an eye toward profit; some, protection;...

In How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell, we meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Even though he is the son of Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligans, Hiccup does not fit the mold of the fierce Viking warrior, let alone a future...

As this sequel to How to Train Your Dragon opens, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his fellow trainees find themselves on a ship during a severe storm. The reason? The boys are learning Sword Fighting at Sea. However, before they can complete their lesson, the...