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The Blood Garden by Chad Wickwire Manuscript Review

Genre - Sci-fi/Fantasy Rating 5 out of 5 stars So as some of you might know besides being a reviewer I also have been known to proofread books. I usually do not do reviews on these books because they are in such a raw format and there is typically not a release date yet but one came across my desk I just had to say something about. This book is by a new author that none of you have ever heard of but it was so good I had to say something about. The books mixes fantasy with mystery and suspense and a bit of horror.  The pretense of the book is about a guy that is hallucinating things and slowly being turned evil by a forces beyond his control. There are a lot of supernatural beings and trying to figure out what exactly is going on with him. The whole time this is happening he is in a mental hospital and is under the impression that he is going insane. A dark man keeps appearing to him  with the impression that this is one of the hallucinations. The ending was the best...

The Serial Killers Wife by Alice Hunter

Genre - Suspense/Drama Format - Ebook Rating 5 out of 5 stars This book was amazing I don’t even know how to put into words how much I loved this book! I do have a warning to people who like the endings of books to be wrapped up in a package with a bow on top. This book is not for you. The heroine in the book has been married to a man for 7 years when the police show up at the door to question and subsequently arrest him for murder. In the beginning of the books she is baffled why this happened but as the twist and turns go by she wonders if it is true among other things I will not mention because I don’t like to do spoilers. This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Never knowing what was going to happen. As my readers know I read a lot of different kinds of books but I seem to like the suspenseful ones the best. There is also some romance thrown in which I loved. Not to give to much away but the ending will leave you wanting more. I don’t know if the author int...

A Year in the Life of Internet Dating by Samatha Thorne

Genre - Non Fiction/Memoir Format - Kindle Unlimited   Rating 5 stars out of 5 This book is a short easy read (only 41 pages.) I found it very amusing and it really spoke to me because I have tried online dating and I am about the same age as the author was when she tried it.  This book is a kind of how to for internet daters. It has a lot of things to watch out for and cold hard facts about internet dating. One of the things is to make up who your ideal man is before you start on a site. If someone does not meet critical factors in your ideal man than just click the next button.  The author keeps it light and funny. I will warn my US readers that this was written by someone overseas. So while some of the wording may seem odd to us it is common overseas. The only thing I didn’t like about her journey down this path is she always met the men at pubs/bars. I have found a nice dinner out where you both drive separately to the destination is easier to get to know som...

The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

Genre - Historical Fiction Format - Ebook Rating 5 out of 5 stars Content Warning - Talk about severe frostbite and amputation and the aftermath of healing from those injuries  Where do I even begin with this book. It was amazing! This book is about what they called the Children’s Blizzard that really happened in January of 1888 in Nebraska and the Dakota’s. I think that is what drew me to this book is that it was a true thing that happened in Nebraska. I am a native of Nebraska and had never heard of the blizzard before this book. This book is based on a variety of characters that where caught in the blizzard including two school teachers that are sisters and a young girl. This book spoke to me in ways that other books haven’t before. I think it hit so close to home because of the blizzards we have been having lately here in Nebraska and how different the past few weeks could have been if it was not as settled as well as it is now. The characters really show what it was like to li...

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Narrators: Lorna Bennett, Lauren Anthony, and Lauren Irwin Format - Audiobook Genre - Mystery/Magical/Suspense Rating - Book 5 out of 5 start; Narration 5 out of 5 stars I absolutely loved this book! First off I always like an audiobook that has different people narrating the different characters. This book has three for the three main women in the book. They all do an exceptional job at narrating their characters. This book is about an Apothecary in the eighteenth century and a woman in the present day who dives into the story of the apothecary when she finds a unique bottle while exploring the banks of the Thames river. This book is full of twists and turns and double crossing. It is full of revenge and poisons used to get that revenge. Also an apothecary owner that is called a repeat killer since she doles out poisons to kill the elite men of the city for ladies to get revenge on the men in their lives. The book ends with a big twist. Which I will not say here because I don’t l...

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

  The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Narrated by Saskatoon Maarleveld Format - Audiobook Book rating 4 out of 5 stars Narration rating 5 out of 5 stars CONTENT WARING: Very vivid descriptions of bombing scenes and gore! All in all I really loved this book but felt it was not what the description said it was going to be about. Thus the 4 star rating. In the description they talk about the Enigma Code a lot but this book was not at all about that but about another code they had to break to find a traitor. The book does talk about the Enigma Code but just in passing and about how long it took to break it. This book did take a good look at our code breakers during World War 2. The unsung heroes who helped win the war and broke the Germans codes sometimes with in minutes of them coming into their facility. Most of these code breakers were women and the work they did for the war effort was amazing. This book showed a glimpse into three women’s work on the front lines breaking these c...

Nazi Wives by James Wyllie

  Nazi Wives:The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany by James Wyllie   Genre - Non Fiction Format - Ebook 5 out of 5 stars This book is a very thorough look into what the wives of the top German officials went through! The brainwashing is just amazing and how they believed in the Nazi cause themselves is utterly mind blowing. I love to read books about World War 2 but this one just blew me away. It talks about how the women ended up in the Nazi movement and their early years. It talks about how they each met and married their husbands and stood behind them unwavering without any thought to what their husbands were actually doing. Hate is shown so clearly in this book even the children were taught to hate. In these times we live in I would strongly recommend this book. It shows how hating a certain type, race, or even political party can erode people and split countries in two pieces!  I will not say more as to not ruin the book but it should be on everyone’s t...