Thursday, November 30
Audiobook Review: Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Wednesday, November 29
Movie Review: Napoleon (2023)
Rating: R
Where I Got It: Theater
Tuesday, November 28
Book Review: The Indian Lawyer by James Welch
Monday, November 27
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Hooked On You by Kate Meader
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne
Series: Chicago Rebels, Book 4
Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 11-21-23
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Contemporary romance /to review
The third sister finds love in this one. But she has a harder time. She has gotten closer with her half sister, but she is still in her soul an outsider that does not know much about hockey. She is a cancer survivor, and she is still finding her way.
Bren St.James has had a rough time. A divorce. Trying to overcome his alcoholism. And doing his best for his team.
They have this constant banter and annoy each other. But then Bren needs help and Violet steps up to help him care for his two kids while he is doing his best to win the Cup and make the Rebels great.
They get closer, but there is some drama in the background. Like her having had this plan of selling her part of the team and leaving. And him hiding some secrets of how bad his drinking problem was.
But hey it is a romance. They get hot and heavy and find their HEA.
Good story. Truly a book about these two.
Nice narration. Both characters have accents that sets them apart from the rest. You always know where you have them
Violet Vasquez never met her biological father, so learning he left his beloved hockey franchise — the Chicago Rebels — to her is, well, unexpected. Flat broke and close to homeless, Violet is determined to make the most of this sudden opportunity. Except dear old dad set conditions that require she takes part in actually running the team with the half-sisters she barely knows. Working with these two strangers and overseeing a band of hockey-playing lugs is not on her agenda… until she lays eyes on the Rebels captain and knows she has to have him.
Bren St. James has been labeled a lot of things: the Puck Prince, Lord of the Ice, Hell’s Highlander... but it’s the latest tag that’s making headlines: washed-up alcoholic has-been. This season, getting his life back on track and winning the Cup are his only goals. With no time for relationships — except the fractured ones he needs to rebuild with his beautiful daughters — he’s finding it increasingly hard to ignore sexy, all-up-in-his-beard Violet Vasquez. And when he finds himself in need of a nanny just as the playoffs are starting, he’s faced with a temptation he could so easily get hooked on.
For two lost souls, there’s more on the line than just making the best of a bad situation… there might also be a shot at the biggest prize of all: love.
Friday, November 24
Audiobook Review: Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox
Thursday, November 23
Wednesday, November 22
Book Review: Brambles by Intisar Khanani
Tuesday, November 21
Book Review: A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews
Monday, November 20
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston
Book 5 in the Honey Badger Chronicles series
Author Shelly Laurenston
Narrated by Charlotte Kane
Publication date Nov 28, 2023 by Tantor Audio
Running time 11 hrs
Paranormal romance /to review
There is one way to describe this book: Crazy.
This is not a series you jump into. Even I had to keep my wits around me when it comes to this one because the action is non stop. The craziness never calms down. There are so many freaking badgers around.
You really have to read them to get them. It is a shifter world. Honey badgers are bad ass mofos. They never back down, they never die. And they all seem to be insane
Tock gets involved in some craziness together with her friends. She meets a hot tiger named Shay (but, yes that takes a long time to evolve into something.) Timewise no, but book length yes. So no real romance before the end when they get hot and heavy.
Danger, fights, food and lots of shifters and you have this book. It is a crazy ride. And at the end, well the next one will be intense
Good audio. She kept up the crazy pace in a good way
Emily "Tock" Meyerson-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey—not even a dog-loving Tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to lounge around with a football-playing tiger shifter. But when she realizes the coalition is also responsible for the death of Shay's father, she's forced to partner up with the flirtatious feline . . .
Revenge is most definitely on the menu for Shay and his tiger shifter brothers. But when it comes to Shay's alluring partner in crime-solving, so is seduction. Tock might be a bad ass of a honey badger, but she's awfully cute when she's flashing her fangs, which she's pretty much doing all the time these days. Good thing revenge is a dish best served hot. Because when it comes to Tock, Shay knows just how to turn up the heat . . .
Thursday, November 16
Is This Becoming a Tradition? Audiobook Review: You Can Thank Me Later
Wednesday, November 15
Audiobook Review: Murder on the Sugarland Express by Angie Fox
Published: 25, 2017
Summary:
Tuesday, November 14
Book Review: The Duke Deal by Valerie Bowman
Monday, November 13
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Gray Mountain by John Grisham
Published: October 23, 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Thriller fiction /Library
It has been ages since I read a Grisham novel. I always like them, all that law talk makes it thrilling.
And here is even more stuff I have no idea about, Big coal. Damn dirty business.
Samantha looses her job, but to keep her hanging on her job tells her to work for a non profit for a year. Which takes her to coal country and a legal aid clinic.
Omg, yes it is fiction, but pretty sure he knows his stuff. Like coal truck accidents. That was horrific. How things goes wrong when they blow things up. When dams break. Black lungs. Cancer clusters. And how Big Coal screws everyone over, and has everyone in their pocket.
Top mining? Was that the word? Blowing up mountain tops and going down. Nature effed over.
Samantha comes in to help and gets dragged in to big coal. And honestly how it ends, it was not that uplifting. The fight continues. But as long as they need coal then coal is there
Interesting story
One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. This is coal country. Meth country. The law is different here.
Friday, November 10
Book Review: Embrace the Lace by Shannon Macleod
Thursday, November 9
Audiobook Review: Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Published: March 10, 2020
Summary: