Week in Review #90

How was your week? What did you get?The Week in Review is where I combine Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It's Monday! What are you reading?  If you have never joined in on these meme's you can check them out by clicking on the meme and it will take you to the host blog.

When it rains it pours in this household. We got the AC working at least so far, this coming week when we have a heat advisory, will be the test. We tried to fix the flat on our lawn mower as we don't have extra money to buy one right now but that didn't work. So I am living in a jungle. My brother is suppose to bring his lawn mower over but he couldn't do it on Saturday when I wanted so now I get to mow in the heat advisory heat. :( 

I am still watching killer animal horror as it's how I relax...lol. I watched Flood, it was a decent Gator movie, Vampire Bats was an okay bat movie, Swim was a horrible shark movie and Aquarium of the Dead which was kind of silly but fun, I mean killer marine life (think starfish, seals, etc.). :)  

Have a fun week and happy reading!

Books I have added

• French Quarter Fright Night - Third book in the Vintage Cookbook series. I love this author!
• A Very Woodsy Murder - New series from my favorite author!
• Murder at Kings Crossing - Newest book in one of my favorite series!
• The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night - Looks like a cute middle grade for Halloween time. :)

Books read last week

• Rest in Peach - Second book in the Georgia Peach series and it's an okay decent series.
• The Case of the Lucky Legs - I am really enjoying Perry Mason! This is my third book and they are fun.
• Murder on the Orient Express - I can now finally watch the movie...lol. I thought this one was good but kind of sad at the end.

Currently reading

• Flight Into Yesterday - It's not bad, but could be better...lol.
• A Taste for Crime - Trying to get caught up on the Hope Street Church series and this will catch me up! I like it but it has made a few changes within the last couple of books that I am still trying to get use too.
• An Irish Bookshop Murder - First in series and an eARC so trying to get it done. I am just starting it but so far it's okay.

What might be up next

Next month is Garbaugust readathon which is right up my alley because I read mostly trashy books anyway...lol. So you will be seeing more of my own books alongside some audiobooks. 

Week in Review #89

How was your week? What did you get?The Week in Review is where I combine Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It's Monday! What are you reading?  If you have never joined in on these meme's you can check them out by clicking on the meme and it will take you to the host blog.

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week. Mine started out okay but hasn't ended the greatest. I swear in our household if it wasn't for bad luck we would have no luck at all. Our AC kept freezing over so we had to defrost it and take it apart to clean it and it's currently drying out in hopes that we can put it together tomorrow and it works..hopefully. Thank goodness it hasn't been to bad it was only in the low 80s but it was still pretty warm in the house. Then our water stopped working again. My brother is going to put a new pressure switch on our well tomorrow and I hope that is the only problem and that it works. *fingers crossed* Days like this I wish we could win the lottery and build a new house with the well closer than it is. Country living sometimes isn't the greatest.

So to take my mind of things I am watching Crocodile horror. :) I watched Crocodile Swarm which wasn't really that great and now I am watching Croc which I think I have seen before but it's mindless tv...lol.

Here is hoping next week is a good one! Have a great week and happy reading!

Books I have added

• Mr. Lemoncelo's Fantabulous Finale - I love this series and sad that this is the finale but excited to h
  ave been approved for the book!
• A Christmas Duet - So I thought Debbie M was retiring but maybe she has some books already in the works that she is getting published. I am excited as it just won't be the same with out one of her Christmas books!

Thanks Netgalley and publishers!

I forgot to post my birthday books last week and then I got a few extras this weeks so here they are! One from a friend and the rest from really nice subscriber friends of my youtube channel.

• The Black Bird Oracle - I am so excited for this one! It's been around 5 years since this authors last book as she battle cancer and I didn't think we would get any more and then this one was announced last year and I have been so waiting for it!!! Can't wait to buddy read with Barb!
• The Witches House - Looks like a cute little middle grade book. 
• Empire of  Shadows - This one is a historical fantasy romance that is suppose to be for fans of Romancing the Stone and The Mummy and I am so curious about it!
• The Missing Maid - This is a historical mystery about a postal worker who gets letters written to Sherlock Holmes and she decides to look into one about the disappearance of Maid. Sounds fun!

Books read last week

•  Nosy Neighbors - This was good but not a cozy mystery as it was marketed but more l like women's fiction with mystery elements.
• Strange Recompense - This one was not to bad. These older harlequins are more anything but romance...lol.
• Fool Moon - Enjoying my reread of this series as I love this series!
• Can This Be Christmas - It's Christmas in July so I need to read a few Christmas books. :)

Currently Reading

• Flight Into Yesterday - The retro of the week. It's from 1976 and I am page 80 of 187.
• Rest in Peach - The second book in the Georgia Peach Trilogy. It's a decent cozy so far i am 69% into the audiobook.
• I'll Be Home for Mischief - The 5th book in the Christmas Tree Farm series. This is an eARC and comes out in November.

What might be next

Week in Review #88

How was your week? What did you get?The Week in Review is where I combine Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It's Monday! What are you reading?  If you have never joined in on these meme's you can check them out by clicking on the meme and it will take you to the host blog.

So it's been a few weeks since I did one of these. The end of my June didn't go well and the beginning has been busy. I also celebrated a birthday a few days ago. It's just been crazy here!

Hope everyone has a great week and happy reading!

What you might have missed on my blog

Book Spotlight: The Missing Body

Review of The Presence

Review of Storm Front

Books I have added

 Nothing.

Books read last week 

• Heartsong - This is Debbie Macomber's second book. It's from 1984 and much better than her very first book I read last year. :) 
• While Still We Live - This is my second book by this author and I must say I really enjoyed the first book I read by her more but this one was okay. I think this one had a bit to much war involved in it. 
• Murder in Postscript - Book two in the Lady of Letters series. I really enjoyed this one, it had a good mystery.
• The Missing Body - I was not a fan of this one which is a bummer as I have enjoyed this author in the past. 
• The Presence - I enjoyed this one much more than book one of this series. 
• Shark Night - This was okay but it was easy to figure out what was happening.

Currently Reading

• Strange Recompense - One of my retro romances, a harlequin romance from the 70s. So far it's okay. I am currently on page 79 of 192.
• The Pirate's Vixen - One of my chunky retro romances. I am liking it so far but only 49 pages out of 590 pages!
• Nosy Neighbors - My current audiobook and I am liking it so far. I am currently 11% into it.

What might be up next

More of my retro romances I hope. :)

Book Spotlight: The Missing Body by Kerry Wilkinson (Book Tour)

 For fans of thrillers

I ran to get help. But her body disappeared. Will anyone believe me?

Megan is unpacking in the spare room of her sister’s house when she hears the scream.

Racing to the nearby woods, she is shocked to see a young woman’s unconscious body: her pink top bright against the earth, her long, dark hair wet from a nearby stream. But when desperate Megan returns with the police, all they find is empty woodland.

She’s been through so much, her sister whispers, welcoming her home with a kind smile. You can’t blame her for seeing things.

But Megan knows what she saw – and her past shouldn’t come into it. Was the young woman dead, or dying? How can a body just disappear?

Megan left home for a good reason. Now, confronting the past could be the only way to find the truth.But what if Megan is in danger, too? And what price will she have to pay, to find the girl from the woods?

An absolutely gripping mystery thriller that will make you question who to trust and have you racing through the pages. Perfect for fans of Mark Edwards, Claire Douglas and T. M. Logan.

Doesn't this book sound interesting! Check out the extract below!

SUNDAY 

‘Heat rises’, that’s what people say. It’s one of those certainties in life; like Popes being Catholic, bears doing their business in woods, and middle-aged men suddenly deciding they like salmon-coloured shirts. Megan Lexington’s current bedroom was the attic – and she had never been more aware of rising heat. The temperature was somewhere between sauna and centre of a microwaved apple pie. The skylight was open, not that there was any breeze to be, well, breezy. She sat on the edge of the bed, which was too soft, and plumped up a pillow, that was too hard. The bed was directly under the skylight, blocked against the wall by an impossibly large chaise longue. A piece of furniture that answered the age-old question, ‘What do you call a rubbish sofa?’ It had been a long few days, though beggars couldn’t be choosers. Well, they could, but they’d only be showing a fundamental misunderstanding of what it was to be a beggar. And Megan had come here begging. Her suitcase was on the carpeted floor, unzipped yet unpacked. She knew she would be living out of it for the fore‐seeable future. That’s how she was on holiday: no point in unfurling clothes into drawers and wardrobes, only to fold them back into a case a week or so later. This was worse than a holiday. Not permanent and yet not exactly temporary. 

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About the Author:

Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.

He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.

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Two Bloggers One Series ~ The Precences by Heather Graham (Harrison Investigations #2)

 

Barb and I wasn't huge fans of book one of this series so it can only get better, right? Check out my review and then go see Barbs at Booker T's Farm.

The ultimate moneymaking plan...buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination. Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall.

Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall--a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow familiar to Toni--the bodies of young women are found, dumped and forgotten in the nearby town.

But even stranger, how is it possible this laird exists? Toni invented Bruce MacNiall for the performance...yet sinister, lifelike dreams suggest he's connected to the recent deaths. Bruce claims he wants to help catch the murderer. But even if she wants to, can Toni trust him...when her visions seem to be coming from within the very eyes of the killer himself?

I am happy to report that I enjoyed this one a lot more than I did book one! I tell you after that rough start of not liking one of the characters I was a bit worried but I am glad the author just has made the characters in this one much more likable. 

So this one is set is Scotland which is great, and it has some American's who have rented out a castle and are doing historical tours with a reenactment of a Highland Laird storming into the castle to confront his wife about her possible infidility and what might have happened.

To their surprise a man on a stead comes barging into their reeactment demanding to know what they are doing in his home. He is Laird MacNiall and Toni the one who made up the story is not happy with the interuption and argues with him not putting her and her group on good terms with the man at first. Seems they got scammed and thought they had rented this castle but Bruce had no clue what was going on while he was gone. 

Meanwhile, there are some young women going missing in and around the area and Bruce actually found one of the bodies in his woods. He really doesn't like having these people in his home doing this reenactment but he also understand they invested a lot into what they had been doing, even fixing up some much needed repairs to the castle. 

As the investigation goes on Toni who can see the dead keeps getting lead into the woods where she finds one of Bruces ancestors, one of home she thought she made up. She was lead by the dead ancestoral Bruce and the present day Bruce is having a hard time grasping this and thinks she is a bit crazy. 

Now see I can understand one of the characters having some serious doubts about someone seeing ghost but this one guy wasn't near as bad about it as the guy in the first book. I actually like Bruce and Toni together they make a cute couple and not once did I feel that they shouldn't be together unlike the couple of book one. That couple does make an appearance towards the end and they seem a lot better than in their own book. I also really enjoyed the secondary characters. I figured out the bad person but the author did a good job of keeping me guessing between a couple of characters. 

I feel much better about heading into the next book in this series than I did after book one. :)

4 stars