When Jane Jameson is fired she doesn’t think her day could get any worse, but it does. On her way home she is mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. She finds herself saved by the stranger she meets at a bar, who apparently is a vampire. After listening to the Mystic Bayou … More Review: Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs by Molly Harper
“Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all.” In this eye-opening, … More Review: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Lia Doe came to Mystic Bayou to help build a housing complex for the new residents flocking to town now that the supernatural population has been outed. But from the moment she arrives, nothing goes as expected. She finds herself attracted to selkie shifter Jon, she is considering settling in one place for the first … More Review: Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper
Charlotte McBee has come to Mystic Bayou to be the midwife of Jillian and her unborn egg. What she doesn’t expect is to find herself attracted to a man who is under a curse. I really enjoyed Charlotte and Leonard’s story. Their relationship was a slow building one (at least for this series) as they … More Review: One Fine Fae by Molly Harper
Shining Smith has been surviving and hiding in her junkyard for years. But in one day everything changes, someone has realized she is still alive and has a bunch of very illegal weapons. Now she has to fight to protect herself, her cats, and the things hidden in her junkyard. I went into this story … More Review: Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
Filled with humor and highly detailed accounts of her travels, this book takes us around the world to look at different cultures’ death practices and how they cope with death. She relates these practices back to the United States practices and uses them as teaching tools to show how disconnected our culture is about death … More Review: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
“Death. It doesn’t have to be boring.” In this informative and hilarious book, Mary Roach discusses the lives of cadavers from past to present. With detailed descriptions of experimentations, organ donation, and other options that can happen to cadavers, she takes us on a journey of the human body after death, but only if you … More Review: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
“White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview because it is the bedrock of our society and its institutions. Regardless of whether a parent told you that everyone was equal, or the poster in the hall of your white suburban school proclaimed the value of diversity, or you have traveled … More Review: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.” Dracula is one of the first classic horror books that almost everyone recommends. I first read this book in college and since have read it multiple times. This time I decided to give the full cast audiobook a try and I … More Review: Dracula by Bram Stoker
This is a retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is set in modern-day London with the main characters being Henrietta Jekyll and Eleanor Hyde. As a fan of the original classic, I figured this would be an interesting retelling. I was right and I actually enjoyed this more than the original. This was … More Review: Henrietta & Eleanor by Libby Spurrier and Robert Louis Stevenson
In Uncomfortable Conversations with A Black Man, Emmanuel Acho answers common questions that many white Americans are afraid to ask, but need the answers to. Narrated by Acho, this audiobook takes the listener through these questions, answers, and additional resources for further education. As a fan of Acho’s video series, I knew this book was … More Review: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
It has been 10 years since I have read this classic romance and it was just as enjoyable as I remember. We follow Jane through her childhood as an orphan, to her days as a governess at Thornfield Hall, to her experience with love and loss, and in finding her lost family. Charlotte Bronte weaves … More Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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