Tag: Penguin

Review: The Memory of Water by Karen White

Review: The Memory of Water by Karen White

  Sometimes I’m in the mood for something darker and emotionally engaging. The Memory of Water was exactly that. In it, White explores the bond between sisters, the various shades of mental illness and how secrets from the past come back to haunt you, no matter how far buried they seem to be. The bond […]

Review: Give Him the Slip by Geralyn Dawson

Review: Give Him the Slip by Geralyn Dawson

Maddie Kincaid thought she finally found the simple life when she moved to Brazos Bend and started her own business. She never dreamed that helping a gentle old man would force her to run for her life, right into the arms of the infamous Luke “Sin” Callahan. He has just settled into a fishing vacation, […]

Review: Taking the Heat by Kathryn Shay

Review: Taking the Heat by Kathryn Shay

Book description: Liam O’Neil is trying to take care of his troubled seven-year-old son and cocky teenager, and work full time at the family-owned Bailey’s Irish Pub. Widowed three years ago, he’s ready to date again (at the insistence of his brothers). But his life is in flux, his future unclear, when he meets Sophie […]

Guilty by Karen Robards

Guilty by Karen Robards

Book description: One cold November night when Kat White was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no […]

Review: Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare

Review: Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare

Sometimes I have this problem with reviewing. It usually happens when a book just blew me away or surpassed my expectations. When that happens I usually have a hard time reviewing it without sounding like a moron (see: Jo Goodman). That is the case with Unlawful Contact. I read it about a week ago and […]