Category: 4 stars

Reviews for books I gave four stars to.

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

January 5, 2026

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

December 27, 2025

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: Smitten by the Alien Saloon Owner by Ursa Dax

December 25, 2025

Tasha, the human-Zabrian liaison, is determined to find all the single men on Zabria Prinar One. To start with she decides to create a calendar showing off the men, both married and single, and provide accurate information about the program this time. When Shiloh sees the calendar after getting fired from her job, she jumps … More Review: Smitten by the Alien Saloon Owner by Ursa Dax

Review: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

December 7, 2025

This book is about the history of the dangers of the space program and how it led to disasters like the Challenger explosion in 1986, the Columbia disaster in 2003, and a few other disasters. While I knew of the Challenger disaster, it was before I was born and I never really looked into what … More Review: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Review: The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans

December 5, 2025

“The idea that we are truly dead when we no longer exist in anyone’s memory has its roots in many cultures and time periods….Forgetting is inevitable, as descendants pass and physical markers fade. Over centuries, some notable lives remain etched in our memories, though their ranks dwindle as time passes. Many others are recalled for … More Review: The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans

The Trouble With Vampires by Lynsay Sands

Review: The Trouble With Vampires by Lynsay Sands

December 2, 2025

History professor Patronella Stone is babysitting her nephew for a few days. She expects to be playing games, watching movies, and eating lots of pizza, not dealing with intruders and vampire neighbors. This book focuses on Santo Notte who has appeared in a few of the recent books. Santo was tortured for years by Dressler … More Review: The Trouble With Vampires by Lynsay Sands

Review: Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away by Coltan Scrivner

November 29, 2025

This was a fascinating look at why people are morbidly curious. It covers all different kinds of reasons why humans are drawn to horror, ghosts, murder, violent games, etc., and how it all stems from our evolutionary history.  From the beginning, this book had me hooked on how it explains our fascination with morbidly curious … More Review: Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away by Coltan Scrivner