This Chick Read : Night Life by David C. Taylor

If this book were a film I would describe this as Film Noir.  Is there such a term as Book Noir?  I don’t know, but Noir is the best way for me to describe the feeling of how this book was written.  The setting is post World Wars, when the government played on the fear of its citizens going on communist witch hunts.  Speakeasy’s were commonplace, and jazz music was popular.  The story follows a cop, Michael Cassidy, who is as deeply layered Continue reading “This Chick Read : Night Life by David C. Taylor”

This Chick Read: Lost in Her by Sandra Owens

As I was reading Lost in Her, I was reminded of reading Harlequin and Silhouette romances as a teenager in California.  This was a sweet tale with a somewhat naive heroine who meets a man who isn’t ready to commit due to a personal tragedy.  Sandra Owens, the author, did a good job of inserting Continue reading “This Chick Read: Lost in Her by Sandra Owens”

This Chick Read: A Touch of Ice (Book 1 ): The Everly Gray Adventures by L. J. Charles

While reviewing the note about the author on Amazon, I knew that what I would be reading would be an unusual take on a murder mystery.  The author, L. J. Charles, is a past yoga instructor, who, when deciding to write full time was driven to the paranormal genre because she wanted to include her life experiences with energy into her stories.  This might raise question marks Continue reading “This Chick Read: A Touch of Ice (Book 1 ): The Everly Gray Adventures by L. J. Charles”

This Chick Read: Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf

What would you do if you went to your husband’s childhood home because the woman who raised him was in the hospital, and everything you thought you knew about him started to unravel.  That is what happened to Sarah Quinlan Continue reading “This Chick Read: Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf”

This Chick Read: The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston

I had been sent the pre-release copy of the sequel to this book by St. Martin’s Press (The Return of the Witch) and realized that I hadn’t yet read the 1st book in the series, The Witch’s Daughter.  It had been on my wish list on my Overdrive app, so I checked it out, reading it while the NFL playoffs played in the background Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston”

This Chick Read: Firelight by Kristen Callihan

As you all know from my previous blog This Chick Read: Kristen Callihan’s The Game On series, I really enjoyed Kristen Callihan‘s style of writing.  She has a great gift for character development and yep, ok, I’ll admit, she writes great love scenes!   Continue reading “This Chick Read: Firelight by Kristen Callihan”

This Chick Read: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive was the novel selected for my book club The Hot Chicks Who Read.  The book follows Ani FaNelli, a young women who writes sex articles for a Cosmopolitan-like magazine, while being decked out in the current fads, eating practically nothing Continue reading “This Chick Read: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll”

This Chick Read: Gail Carriger-Manners and Mutiny

How amazing would it be if you were a teenage girl sent to finishing school as punishment, but were in fact being sent to an Espionage school, in a dirigible!  This is the case for Sophronia, and the other young ladies sent to Madame Geraldine’s in the Finishing school series.  A prequel to the Parasol Protectorate series, this is the last of four books. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Gail Carriger-Manners and Mutiny”

This Chick Read: Eileen Wilks- Mind Magic

Mind Magic is book #12 in the World of the Lupi series, and if you haven’t read the others, you really need to read them in order because Eileen Wilks closely intertwines her characters, with storylines continuing from one book into another. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Eileen Wilks- Mind Magic”

This Chick Read: I want to be Cormoran Strike’s girl Friday!

I initially picked up Robert Galbraith’s Cuckoo’s Calling because I was a fan of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.  The Cormoran Strike series is written with the same kind of detail we came to love from the Harry Potter books. That detail made them so much more than just children’s novels.  Galbraith’s London, in which Cormoran Strike lives, is disillusioned, painful and muddy. Continue reading “This Chick Read: I want to be Cormoran Strike’s girl Friday!”