Review of Kate Morton’s “The Lake House”

Simon & Schuster/ IndieBound/Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Kobo Check out the following enticing synopsis of the book, provided by Simon & Schuster: From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family’s idyllic…

MILLY x LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE SWEEPSTAKES!

   Hi fellow blog readers and fans, you might be interested (more like really excited) about the following giveaway that Simon & Schuster is promoting for Jessica Knoll’s recent bestselling thriller- Luckiest Girl Alive (clicking on this hyperlinked text will take you to our review of this phenomenal book). To enter the contest, please be sure…

Review of “A Window Opens,” By: Elisabeth Egan

Simon Schuster/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Indiebound/Books-A-Million Book Synopsis (Taken from Simon and Schuster Product Detail Page) Fans of I Don’t Know How She Does It and Where’d You Go, Bernadette will cheer at this “fresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to have it all” (People) about what happens when a wife and mother of three…

Review of “Hostile Takeover” by Shane Kuhn

Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/IndieBound/Goodreads Synopsis, Taken from Simon Schuster Product Detail Page: Professional assassin John Lago faces off against his deadliest adversary yet—his wife—in Hostile Takeover, the exciting sequel to Shane Kuhn’s bestselling debut The Intern’s Handbook, which the New York Post called “a sexy, darkly comic thriller.” At the end of The Intern’s Handbook, John tracks…

Review & Giveaway for “Eight Hundred Grapes” by Laura Dava

Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/IndieBound Synopsis (Taken from the Publisher’s Website) There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…. Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother’s lasagna: chocolate. The secret…

Review of Stephen Hunter’s “I,Ripper,” Including Literary Tea Recommendation &Special Giveaway

CONTEST ALERT: We are giving away one complimentary copy of the following book, Details can be found below, as to how to enter for your chance to win a copy of this smashing, heart-pounding thriller, I, Ripper, featuring the iconic Jack-the-Ripper. Amazon/Barnes& Nobles/Simon Schuster/IndieBound/Goodreads The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you…

After Perfect: A Daugher’s Memoir Feature Part 2-Review of After Pefect

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Goodreads About the Book (Synopsis Taken from Product Detail Page, on Simon & Schuster Website): In the tradition of New York Times bestsellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowell’s unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family’s destruction…

Review of “The Sweetheart: A Novel,” by: Angelina Mirabella

 Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Simon & Schuster/Goodreads Angelina Mirabella’s aptly- titled historical ficiton novel The Sweetheart, set around the era of the fifties in America, is an exciting, identity-confused perspective of a female wrestler, in a time in America which many attribute as being one of the most idyllic eras in our history.  When you read the…