The Friday Face-Off: OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant

The Friday Face-Off: OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant
Posted March 21, 2025 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 16 Comments

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for more information. Join in the fun each Friday by highlighting a book with multiple cover designs! It’s been (checks blog posts) FIVE months since I last […]

ROSE/HOUSE by Arkady Martine – Review

ROSE/HOUSE by Arkady Martine – Review
Posted March 17, 2025 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 27 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A surreal, locked room murder mystery set in an impossible house, Rose/House is a beautifully written puzzle of a story. “There is, as there has always been for Selene inside one of Basit’s buildings, a sense of hypnosis. Of being led, of being let into a a secret, a series of revelations, stripping […]

CHAOS by Constance Fay – Review

CHAOS by Constance Fay – Review
Posted March 14, 2025 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 16 Comments

The nitty-gritty: Humor, action and romance combine in this latest entry in Constance Fay’s absurdly fun sci-fi series. This is the third book in Constance Fay’s Uncharted Hearts series, and Chaos is another adrenaline-fueled story with lovable characters and plenty of humor. I did have a few issues with pacing and logistics this time, although […]

Ten Books With Serial Killers

Ten Books With Serial Killers
Posted March 11, 2025 by Tammy in Top Ten Tuesday / 42 Comments

I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday, which was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog, Today’s theme is “books with ___ as a plot device,” and I’m sort of tweaking the theme and going with books that […]

ONCE WAS WILLEM by M.R. Carey – Review

ONCE WAS WILLEM by M.R. Carey – Review
Posted March 10, 2025 by Tammy in 4 1/2 stars, Reviews / 28 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A story told by a unique protagonist, Once Was Willem shines with well drawn characters, magic and found family. “Gird yourself, therefore. I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men. I speak also of secret things, of that which lies beneath us and that which impends […]