Wednesday, January 29
Book Review: Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
Tuesday, January 28
TMST: Winter
Monday, January 27
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Wilde Abandon by Jennifer Ryan
By: Jennifer Ryan
Narrated by: Dani California
Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 01-28-25
Publisher: Tantor Media
Romantic suspense
To review
I like Ryan´s books because of the suspense and here, oh my, I want to hit someone so badly. I mean *deep breath*, horrid horrid human being.
Fox had a shitty childhood and was sent to fostercare. He is a better person than I would be cos he comes home when his shitty mother has cancer to see to that she has everything. He does want an apology too, but his mother is one of the shitty people in this book.
Melody was his best friend growing up and he is also back cos he wants her badly. He has made a good life for himself and now he needs his woman.
These two are meant to be. They get hot and heavy, a lot. But what is life without drama. First there is his horrible mother, then there is this really crazy woman who wants to date him. She is the one I just want to hit. The things she does, if that was a man he would be in jail. Oh and the secret that he is keeping from her that also keeps the suspense going. It is a nice secret, but .....suspense.
Good suspense, lots of romance.
Good narration. She kept me listening and feelings lots of emotions if you missed that.
Broken and betrayed, Fox Bridges escaped Blackrock Falls sixteen years ago, vowing never to return. But when his mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, there's no escaping it. Making the best of a bad situation, he goes back to face his past and set up a program to help foster kids who age out of the system like him. But more importantly—to reunite with the best friend he had to leave behind.Melody Wilde never got over the loss of her childhood best friend. She saved his life . . . but it cost her Fox. He left town and never looked back, hating her for revealing his secret.So when Fox walks back into town—right through the front door of her bar—she realizes he's the man she's been falling for online. He could be her chance at forever.But Fox has secrets, and there are those who will do anything to bring him down. They'll exploit any weakness. And he's just given them the biggest one yet—Melody.
Friday, January 24
Book/Play Review: Othello by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, January 21
Book Review: Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
Monday, January 20
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
323 pages, Paperback
Published: December 7, 2023 by Faber & Faber
Lit Fic/ Library loan
So this was one of those books that was good without me knowing why. I felt at first like why am I even reading this, but at the same time I could not stop. I needed to continue. The writing is so good, the story is so strange.
Greta is a transcriber. She has fallen in love with a female voice, and then she meets the voice. Lies begin and an intense affair. All told is this strange dark humorous way.
I do not really want to say more because the book just needs to be read and felt. It might not be the book for everyone, but sometimes I just need a weird story. And it was a great one
Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She's a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs.
Well that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland.
Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice.
What Greta doesn't know is that she's about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new - and not entirely honest - relationship is going to be born.
A relationship that will transform both of their lives. . .
Thursday, January 16
Audiobook Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Narrator: Richard Armitage
Pages: Audiobook
Published: January 11, 2018
Where I Got It: Audible
Wednesday, January 15
Book Review: Midnight in Venice by Meadow Taylor
Tuesday, January 14
Blodeuedd's Tuesday Review: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jennifer Pickens
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 08-06-24
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Categories: Fantasy
Own
Now why didn´t I write this at once?! When I had all those feelings right. But I will try and do it justice.
It says this is a dark re-telling of the goose girl...yeah I do not remember that one at the moment. Is that the princess one? Never mind.
Cordelia lives with her mother and atmosphere is dark. Then her mother goes away and comes back telling her that she has found a man. Also telling the 14 year old that she should get married too and lie about her age. Not the best kind of mother.
And it gets darker. What kind of magic is her mother doing? She has the guy wrapped around her finger, his twin sister does not like her and Cordelia is a little rabbit being pulled too hard.
How can this all be saved? How can everyone have some sort of HEAs? In fairytales good always wins.
I am just not doing it justice. It is a great tale. It gets a bit dark, but not like scary dark, just the feeling of darkness closing in and how it will all end?
The narration is superb too and the voices are so good for everyone. They really gets it right. And the whole feeling of the book.
Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend—unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.
After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away on Falada’s sturdy back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage, and Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.
Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother, how the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.
Thursday, January 9
Audiobook Review: Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper
Author: Molly Harper
Narrator: Amanda Ronconi
Pages: Audiobook
Published: February 28, 2012
Where I Got It: Audible
Wednesday, January 8
Audiobook Review: Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Pages: Audiobook
Published: August 24, 2021
Where I Got It: Audible