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The Academy Saga by CJ Daly

July 12, 2021

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The Academy Saga by CJ Daly was an interesting book. It is a super long book, and I had a hard time reading it because it has a super slow pace. I hated that there was so much inner dialogue with Kate because it made me put the book down and walk away for a while. I hate when I can’t stay focused on what I was reading. If you don’t like super suspenseful books, you might enjoy this book more than I did. I did enjoy the authors writing style. At times felt like she included way too many details, and I am sure that is why it took me so long to read this book. This book did keep me guessing as to what was going to happen. I was glad that I stuck with this book because I did enjoy the ending of the book. The author did a great job of making the characters come alive to me. I love when the characters in books seem like they are alive. I am hoping that the second book in this series isn’t as dull as this book was. If you don’t mind books that move at a slower pace, then I would pick up a copy of this book.

About The Book

Book Title: The Academy Saga by C.J. Daly
Category: Adult Fiction (18 yrs +), 500 pages
Genre: Suspense Romance
Publisher: BrandyLight Ink
Release date: September 2019
Content Rating: PG-13. My book has some adult themes, language, and a few slow-burn romance scenes.

“Unique, intense, and suspenseful. A story with compelling characters that pull you into the author’s world and keep you reading from beginning to end.
Intriguing start to a new series.” –New York Times Best Selling Author Jami Brumfield “CJ has created an unforgettable story about a young woman caught up in a world of lies and deception. The Academy Saga is a page-turning read with a twist you may not see coming.” —Tony Jones, Executive Producer of My All American

“Wow wow wow! This book has it all. It’s extremely well written, the characters are amazing and the story is so intriguing that it pulls you in from the very first page. There’s tension, mystery chemistry and of course romance. I loved it! I would highly recommend this page turner!” — RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @abbi_reads_xx

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Kate Connelly should be careful what she wishes for.

Just seventeen, she already feels like she’s suffocating. Since her mother’s death, her father’s basically checked out, so she’s stuck raising her brothers by herself out in the New Mexico scrub. All Kate wants is a little distraction from the same-ole, same-ole that is her life.

When two mysterious guys show up at the diner where she works, she thinks her wish has come true, until they start giving her a hard time. Like her life isn’t hard enough. Something about them niggles her, but she
brushes it off. She’s never going to see them again anyway . . . right?

Then they appear in an alley one night to either rescue or kidnap her (she’s still not sure which) before disappearing like figments of her imagination.

Kate decides to put the bizarre encounters out of her mind. She has bigger problems to worry about: like that elite
military academy that’s been pursuing her gifted little brother. When one of their cadets shows up at her high school, he creates instant pandemonium. And just happens to be one of those mysterious guys. Coincidence? Mama said there’s no such thing. And to always trust her instinct. But that might be kind of hard, because every time she’s around Cadet Peter Davenport, her gut starts flip-flopping on her. And her heart.

Can Kate keep it together long enough to stop Cadet Davenport’s mission? She’s about to find out. And—once again—how neatly life can be split into before and after.

About The Author

CJ Daly grew up on the scrabbly plains of Eastern New Mexico. When she was supposed to be helping her six siblings with chores on the family ranch, she was really sneaking behind dusty haystacks to read. And dreaming about becoming a writer.

After graduating high school, CJ moved to Big D, where she quickly put herself through college while trying to rid herself of her country accent. She had better luck with college, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in English literature. After teaching a few years and pausing to have back-to-back boys, she began writing in earnest.

A few years later, “The Academy Saga” was born. It instantly earned a Readers’ Favorite 5-STAR seal of approval and became an Amazon best seller.

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The Fragile Ones by Jennifer Chase

May 12, 2021

FTC: I received a free copy of this book from Pump Up Your Book in exchange for my honest review. I received no other compensation and the opinions expressed in this review are one hundred percent true and my own.

The Fragile Ones by Jennifer Chase was an exciting read. I have read a couple of books in this series, and I could pick up each one and know what is going on. If you are interested in the whole series, I would read them in order, but you can just pick one up and not be lost at all. I don’t find that these books are super suspenseful, but this book did have enough suspense that I want to keep reading. Also, since I have read a few other books in this series, I felt like I got to check in with a friend of mine and check up on what she had going on. I am always amazed that Katie can push past her PTSD from her time in the military and find the killers. I don’t know that I would be able to do what she does, which makes me love her even more. I didn’t figure out what was going on until I finished, so that is always nice. If you are looking for a new mystery series, I will pick up a copy of any of the books in this because I am sure you will enjoy them just like I did.

About The Book

Title: THE FRAGILE ONES
Author: Jennifer Chase
Publisher: Bookouture
Pages: 300
Genre: Crime Thriller

“Please Mommy, can Tessa and I go play on the swing by the creek?” the little girl begs, pushing a blonde curl from her eyes. “We’ll stay together, and we promise to be safe.” Hours later, their mother waits anxiously for her darling girls to arrive home with a list of reasons why they are late. But the front door never opens…

When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the most shocking and heartbreaking crime scenes of her career.

Carefully picking through the fragile remains, Katie makes the first of many disturbing discoveries: the girls were not biological sisters. The youngest, Megan, is a DNA match to a kidnapping case years before. The tiny number burnt into her skin the mark of a terrifying killer intent on keeping count of his collection.

Her PTSD from the army triggered, Katie is left reeling as she maps other missing children in the local area. Has this twisted soul found a way to stay nearby his victims? Could he be watching now as Katie hits one dead end after another?

A wild storm building, matching a fiber found during the autopsy to a nearby boatyard is the break Katie needs. But when another girl goes missing, just as lightning strikes and the power goes out, Katie only has her instincts, her team and her service dog to rely on. As time runs out for Katie to finds the stolen child alive, who will become the next number on this monster’s deadly list?

Fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine and Melinda Leigh, you better buckle-up for the ride of your life! BEWARE – this gripping crime thriller is guaranteed to keep you up all night!

About The Author

Jennifer Chase is a multi award-winning and USA Today BestSelling crime fiction author, as well as a consulting criminologist. Jennifer holds a bachelor degree in police forensics and a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent psychopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In addition, she holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling. She is an affiliate member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, and member of the International Thriller Writers.

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Emergence by Shira Shiloah

May 10, 2021

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Emergence by Shira Shiloah was a fascinating read. I loved that the things that happened in this book could happen. I am sure these exact things have happened. I loved that this book could have happened; it makes me want to read it even more. Also, I fell in love with the narrator of this book. She made all of the characters sound so different that I didn’t have an issue keeping the characters separate. This is the first time that I have listened to an audiobook where the narrator could make so many different voices with different accents. This is the first book I have read by this author, and I also fell in love with her. The author did an excellent job of making the book come to life as I was listening. I enjoyed the characters in this book because they were all so complex that they seemed real-life people. I didn’t find that this book was super suspenseful, but it did have enough that I kept listening. This book makes me not want to have surgery ever because you never know what the doctors do or don’t do when they are operating on you. I made love about this book because the medical parts of this book were true to what happens, and I loved that. Because the author is a doctor, she knows how everything works and that came through as I was reading the book. If you love medical thrillers with a small dose of romance thrown in, I would pick this one up and give it a listen.

About The Book

Author: Shira Shiloah

Narrator: Simone McIntyre

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Publisher: Shira Shiloah⎮2021

Genre: Medical Thriller

Release date: Mar. 12, 2021

A Scalpel Wielding Villain.

A Healthcare System that Fails.

A Whistleblower that Protects Her Patients – No Matter the Costs.

A trusted anesthesiologist, Dr. Roxanne Roth, is healing from the loss of her fiancé by consuming her time with work. It doesn’t hurt that her new love interest, Dr. Justin Kirkland, spends almost as much time at the hospital as she does.

Entranced in the throes and complications of new love, Roxanne looks forward to work every day. Her time at the hospital would almost be cathartic if not for Dr. D. K. Webb, a neurosurgeon, who is quickly amassing a pile of complaints – and bodies.

Despite trying to avoid Webb, Roxanne finds herself working alongside the doctor during a routine, low-risk surgery. Fueled by cocaine and ego, Webb intentionally sabotages the case, leading to the patient dying on the operating table.

Roxanne’s tenuous grip on recovery is shattered with her patient’s death, quickly replaced by anger and a drive for justice. Now Roxanne will do anything to protect her patients from the killer on the other side of the sterile surgical field – before he can silence her as well.

In this gripping, sinister medical thriller, Dr. Shira Shiloah will leave listeners wondering about the potential evil lurking behind every surgical mask.

About The Author

Dr. Shira Shiloah is the author of the international bestseller, EMERGENCE, a medical romantic thriller that explores what happens when a sociopath holds a scalpel to anesthetized patients.

Dr. Shiloah received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee and completed her Anesthesiology residency at Northwestern University.

Shira lived in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Chicago and Washington, D.C., before choosing Memphis as her hometown. She enjoys traveling the world with her husband and long walks with her rescue pup.

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Simone McIntyre was born in London where she currently resides. She is also a linguist, and often works in Spanish and French. As an actress she has worked across all mediums. As a voice artist her experience includes commercials, e-Learning, dubbing and film. When not narrating, acting or producing she loves listening to new versions of Jazz standards and is a shoe shopaholic!

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The Shade Under The Mango Tree by Evy Journey

December 17, 2020

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The Shade Under The Mango Tree by Evy Journey was a fascinating book. It has been quite a while since I have read a book like this one,, and I found it really refreshing. I really enjoyed this author and I can’t wait to read other books by her in the future. I didn’t find that the plot was anything special but because of the authors writing I fell in love with the characters in this book. As I was reading this book I never was able to figure out what was going to happen next and I loved that about this book. I loved that just when I thought I had everything figured out the author would throw a curve ball and I was back trying to figure out what was happening. This author did a great job of making me feel like I was there with characters. Some authors go overboard when it comes to describing the settings in the book but this author did a great job of making the places come alive but not so much that you got bogged down in all of the details that you didn’t really need. If you are looking for a new book to read this winter I would pick up a copy of this one and check it out.

About The Book

Title: The Shade Under the Mango Tree
Author: Evy Journey
Publisher: Sojourner Books
Pages: 330
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for.

Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don’t stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life.

Months later, they meet at a bookstore where Luna works and which Lucien frequents. Fascinated by his stories and his adventurous spirit, Luna volunteers for the Peace Corps. Assigned to Cambodia, she lives with a family whose parents are survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide forty years earlier. What she goes through in a rural rice-growing village defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed?

About The Author

Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author awardee, is a writer, a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art of aimless roaming. Armed with a Ph.D., she used to research and help develop mental health programs.

She’s a writer because beautiful prose seduces her and existential angst continues to plague her despite such preoccupations having gone out of fashion. She takes occasional refuge by invoking the spirit of Jane Austen to spin tales of love, loss, and finding one’s way—stories into which she weaves mystery or intrigue.

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