(Reviewed by JD Jung) "The more stuff you keep, the more it becomes a monkey on your back. The stuff doesn’t go away without your efforts. One day, your heirs will have to clear out what you keep." You may be in the process of moving and need to downsize. Maybe you are going through…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) My fascination with Egyptian history attracted me to this book and I am glad to report that my choice didn’t disappoint me. The name of the book pretty much says it. Cleopatra is one of the most common names in the history books when it comes to Egyptian…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “He’d been in two worlds his whole life. His tender spot. What gave him perspective and experience beyond most people. It was also what could wound him to the quick like nothing else. Why he lived in two worlds. Not quite fitting in either. Wondering which person he was. Here he…
(Reviewed by Sarah Charles) I’ve always thought romance novels are a bit like ice cream. When you eat ice cream, you know what you’re going to get—something cold, creamy, and sweet. When you read a romance novel, you also know what you’re going to get— two people falling in love, something that threatens to keep…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Catalina Thornley is the first women to ever captain a pirate ship. Her strength is reflected in the way her crew reflects. A pirate’s life is far from easy, irrespective of gender. And it is thrown for a binder when she meets Captain Kade Morgan and together they set out to…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) A serial killer is on the loose, attacking at San Francisco landmarks. This “landmark strangler” has put the city on edge. When Trudy Salvatori is strangled during her morning run around the Presidio, it looks like she could be another victim. Or as we later learn, maybe this murder is totally different,…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) "And now the people where gripped by the ancient fear that the spider might carry off an unbaptized infant, the pledge of their old pact. The woman was beside herself, she had no trust in God, so her heart was all more filled with hatred and revenge." In a farmhouse along…
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) From the UnderratedReads archives - What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz “The woman had to live before she could die...Even if it was the vulgarity of real life—the needs and the mistakes, but also the desire to correct them, the effort toward a forgiveness of herself. A woman like that.…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) "...Justitia, the symbol of equity in our society, her eyes covered, a broadsword in one hand and a set of scales in the other, stood by mutely while I took a posterior augering. That’s when it finally dawned on me that the expression, “justice is blind” was true. Justitia misses a…
