This Chick Read: The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin

Lisa Shearin’s SPI Files series takes place in New York City, but it’s a New York that regular people don’t see.  Unless you have taken Brimstone, a new designer drug that allows the user to “see” the true form of those around them.  Something that SPI, does not want to happen.  Humans would freak out  if they knew what they were living among.   Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin”

This Chick Read: The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle by Caroline Roberts

The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle was a fun, light hearted romance.  As an American reader, I got a kick out of the British witticisms, and cheeky humor.  I’ll admit that part of the fun for me was trying to figure out some of the British slang, but the story was also well told.  Ellie, at times felt a bit young, but I admired that she wanted to leave the safety of her parents house and boring job to open a tea shop in a castle.  She had absolutely no experience at all, Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle by Caroline Roberts”

This Chick Read: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

“When I found my husband lying at the bottom of the stairs…”

Lisa Lutz engaged my imagination from the very first sentence of The Passenger.  Did Tanya kill her husband or didn’t she?  This question was only the first of many that I had as I read this book.  Tanya was the first identity we knew our heroine as, but it certainly wasn’t the last. Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz”

This Chick Read: Moonglow by Kristen Callihan

Forgive me but I’m going to gush for a moment.  Kristen Callihan’s Darkest London series is a fantastically dark, dangerously fun, sexy thrill ride.  I enjoyed Moonglow, the second book in the series, just as much as Firelight, the first.  The characters are not perfect.  They are flawed in the best way possible.  They are interesting, and hold my attention to the extent that I am reading  each page like I eat a piece of chocolate cake, savoring each bite and disappointed when my plate is clean. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Moonglow by Kristen Callihan”

This Chick Read: Morrigan’s Cross by Nora Roberts

Morrigan’s Cross is the first book in Nora Roberts Circle Trilogy.  This book was first published in August of 2006, and was just reissued in January 2016.  Apparently I must have been living in a hole in the ground because I’ve never read this series!  As with most of Ms. Roberts trilogy’s, this storyline has a good versus evil theme.  Six people, of mixed backgrounds join together, using their various abilities, magical and warrior, to become a unit with the purpose of saving mankind from the evil Lilith.   Continue reading “This Chick Read: Morrigan’s Cross by Nora Roberts”

This Chick Read: Ghost Talker by Robin D. Owens 

Ghost Talker, the fourth novel in the Ghost Seer series, finds Clare and Zach trying to solve the problem of a poltergeist disturbing Buffalo Bill’s grave.  Robin D. Owens has done a good job of evolving the psychic abilities of these two characters, as well as increasing the depth of feelings between them, Continue reading “This Chick Read: Ghost Talker by Robin D. Owens “

This Chick Read: Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Two If By Sea is more than a tragic tale of a man who survives tragedy, only to find love again.  It’s about an honorable man, ex cop, Frank Mercy, who, after saving a young boys life, illegally takes him back to his home in the United States.
It’s about the bond Continue reading “This Chick Read: Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard”

This Chick Read: My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis

Jill Shalvis, the author of the Lucky Harbor series, is my go to author for quick humor and an adept emotional touch.  My Kind of Wonderful, the second book in her Cedar Ridge series, definitely has both of those attributes.   Continue reading “This Chick Read: My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis”

This Chick Read: Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs

Elizabeth Briggs has created a futuristic world that is fast paced, fascinating and totally believable.  Elena Martinez and her fellow time travelers have survived the foster system in 2016, developing talents that will help them survive a city they no longer recognize.   The one rule is Continue reading “This Chick Read: Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs”

This Chick Read: Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs

Fire Touched is the latest Mercy Thompson novel by Patricia Briggs.  Mercy, a coyote shifter, while battling a Troll on a bridge to keep it from decimating the Tri-Cities population, makes a magical statement declaring the Columbia Basin Pack protectors of that territory.  This is the beginning of a fantastic story of one of my favorite fantasy characters.  Mercy and her husband Adam, the Alpha Continue reading “This Chick Read: Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs”