My Review: This review is being posted on Friday the 13th. Which is kind of fitting because on the night this story opens, let’s just say that if it weren’t for bad luck Siriwathi Perera wouldn’t have any luck at all. A situation that manages to get a whole lot worse before it finally turns the corner. Siriwathi thinks she’s being observant.

My Review: I picked this up because I loved Witches of Dubious Origin. While I wasn’t exactly hoping for the same kind of book, because Witches is cozy fantasy and this book is more cozy small town romance/relationship, I was still hoping for some of the same sensibilities - and certainly some of the same charm. Those things I definitely got! The meeting between Hannah Spencer and Simon O’Malley isn’t so much of a “meet-cute” as it is a meet really, really awkward with a big surprise inside. Literally inside the beach house on the Outer Banks they each thought they’d inherited from their beloved grandfather which turns out NOT to be a solo inheritance.

My Review: Eunice Hunton Carter and Polly Adler couldn’t have had less in common - or seemingly less reason to find common cause - if they’d tried. Carter was an attorney, the first black female prosecutor in the State of New York. The woman who helped to bring down one of the country’s most notorious mobsters, Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, as part of New York County Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey’s ‘mob’ of Assistant District Attorneys intent on bringing down mob and political corruption in New York in the mid 1930s.

The September House by Carissa OrlandoISBN: 9780593548615 (Hardcover)ISBN: 9780593548639 (ebook)ISBN: 9780593747292 (digital audiobook)ASIN: B0BP6D9WD3 (Kindle edition)ASIN: B0BR8L2F14 (Audible audiob...

My Review: The idea of this story is terrific. The execution didn’t quite work for me as well as I’d hoped. Although I can’t say this enough, the audio narration was terrific and made a story that didn’t live up to its potential worth listening to all the same. This is a friends-to-lovers story. In fact, it’s about the lifelong friendship between Frankie and George. They’ve been besties since they were EIGHT. Most people are lucky if they can hang onto one friendship half that long, but Frankie and George are thirty when this story begins and in some ways are every bit as close as they were when George moved in next door over twenty years ago.

My Review: This alternate, paranormally tinted historical fantasy of the Tudors begins, but not with Henry VIII’s whirlwind, clandestine courtship of Anne Boleyn. It begins at the other end of the story - or what should be the end of the story. With Anne imprisoned in the Tower of London, the night before her execution. Her intended execution, which is where the story takes a turn into the paranormal and the fantastic. At first, Anne thinks her visitor is the ghost of her misdeeds. Catherine of Aragon is the very LAST person Anne expects to see - except as an apparition or a hallucination.

Black Sheep by Rachel HarrisonISBN: 9780593545850 (Hardcover)ISBN: 9780593545874 (eBook)ISBN: 9780593747995 (Audiobook)ASIN: B0BPWW3DLP (Kindle edition)ASIN: B0BR8HJWBC (Audible audiobook)Page Count: ...