Review: Bite Me, Your Grace by Brooklyn Ann

Angelica Winthrop wants to avoid marriage and is determined to push the men of society away with unladylike behavior. Unfortunately her plans keep backfiring and now multiple men are pursuing her. But when she sneaks into the supposedly haunted home of Ian Ashton, Duke of Burnrath, looking for inspiration for her next story, she finds … More Review: Bite Me, Your Grace by Brooklyn Ann

Review: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

This book follows the harrowing journey of the Donner party. It chronicles the group’s journey from the very beginning in Illinois all the way till their deaths after their rescue. As someone who has known about the Donner party for years but never really done any research on the tragedy, this was a very eye … More Review: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

Review: Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia by Phil Jaekl

Out Cold chronicles the history of using cold in medicine and hyperthermia. This covers experimentations, accidents, and all different kinds of medical marvels. This is a topic that is not really something that I have ever really thought of when it comes to medical history, but it ended up being a really fascinating one.  I … More Review: Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia by Phil Jaekl

Review: The Last Wizard’s Ball by Charlaine Harris

This review is going to be a bit of a rant and have some spoilers. Unfortunately, I did not like this book. This book took everything that happened for the past five books and the relationship that was finally getting stronger, and basically destroyed it. For the final book in a series, this was extremely … More Review: The Last Wizard’s Ball by Charlaine Harris

Review: When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter

This was a fascinating look at the history of Spiritualism and its role in the history of faith, fraud, feminism, and financial opportunities. This covers things like women’s suffrage, the changing of people’s faith and rituals, the rise in popularity of these spiritualists in media, the racism of the movement, and scientific testing done to … More Review: When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter

Review: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

Before picking up this book, I had never heard of this incident and had no idea about all the controversy around what might have happened to these nine hikers. Eichar weaves together his journey to uncover the mystery of this incident with the hikers’ accounts to create a very interesting and captivating look at what … More Review: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

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