Stephanie McGill was attacked and turned when she was a teenager. Unfortunately, she is unlike any other immortal. She can’t control her ability to read minds and she never gets any peace and quiet. Now thirteen years later, she is living a quiet life in the country. But once her new neighbor arrives everything changes. … More Review: Immortal Rising by Lynsay Sands
When Hiro and Maddox take a vacation to Japan to meet Hiro’s extended family, they plan to lay low and not end up on another case. Unfortunately that doesn’t work out and before they even arrive in Japan they are already dealing with a ghost problem. Now they have a case that seems to be … More Review: Ghost of Retribution by Alice Winters
This year I participated in my first book club! I joined the Morbidly Curious Book Club in July when they were reading The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris, a book I read years ago and loved. I decided to participate and reread the book, then participated in their live chat about the book at the … More 2025 Morbidly Curious Book Club Wrap Up
The Radium Girls discusses the lives, careers, trials, and death of the women who worked in factories painting watches, clocks, and other military dials with radium so they will illuminate. They were repeatedly told that radium wasn’t harmful, and taught to make their paint brushes into a point using their mouths. So when the women … More Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Jet Lassiter is a pilot for Argeneau Inc. When the plane unexpectedly goes down, he finds himself stranded in the woods with multiple injured vampires who are desperate for blood. Only Quinn, the woman he has been lusting after for four years, can help him get safely away. We originally meet Quinn Peters in The … More Review: Mile High With A Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Myra Reed has spent the past year trying to find a way to free her sister’s soul from the demon Bathin. Unfortunately she is running out of time to rescue her soul and now Ordinary is dealing with portals from Hell popping up all over town. This is the first book from Myra’s POV and … More Review: Dime a Demon by Devon Monk
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam from Taking on a World of Words. The three questions to answer are: What are you currently reading? Currently I am reading A Hero in Hiding by Alice Winters and rereading The Queen’s Starfire Throne by Hailey Turner. What did you recently finish reading? This week … More WWW Wednesday | December 17, 2025
Mac Argeneau knows all too well that immortals can be killed, especially by fire. So when his house burst into flames he is sure that it wasn’t an accident and someone is trying to kill him. But who would want to kill a hematology scientist? There is a silver lining to his house burning down … More Review: Meant to Be Immortal by Lynsay Sands
Blood is not something that I ever thought I would be interested in learning more about but Rose George really made this a fascinating topic. This book takes us through history by talking about the use of blood in medicine, like leeches and transfusions; to blood donation, menstruation, HIV/AIDs, hemophilia, vampirism, and quite a few … More Review: Nine Pints; A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George
This book was written in 1935, and is still so relevant today. War is a Racket is a scathing 43 minutes (or 50 pages) book about the lies politicians tell American taxpayers to justify going to war. Butler explains the corruption of war in very easy to follow language and finishes up by presenting three … More Review: War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler
“For good or ill, there is now a cult for everyone.” When you hear the word ‘cult’ your brain instantly imagines a specific type of group (an extreme religious one most likely), but that doesn’t cover the broadness of what a cult can be. Cultish takes a look at the language surrounding cults and what … More Review: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Nasrin is at Gahn Thaleo’s mountain for the week as part of the deal made between him and the other Gahn’s. While Thaleo appears to favor her, she is keeping her distance because she doesn’t trust how manipulative he is. But as they get to know each other, Nasrin realizes that Thaleo has been taught … More Review: Alien Scars by Ursa Dax
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