Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Surrender, by Lee Schneider {ends 6/4}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyAs the doors of the glidepath flew open, Kat was flooded with sensations. The smell of the city hit her first. There was nothing else like it. Seaweed, urine, and humanity. Suddenly she was a child again on the Westside with her father, financially...

Read More

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Mrs. Nash's Ashes, by Sarah Adler {ends 6/1}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley“This is the first time I’ve been in a police car,” I say to Hollis beside me. As a former child star, any misstep automatically becomes tabloid fodder—just ask Justin LaRue, who played Penelope’s little brother on the show but is now best known...

Read More

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Half Moon, by Mary Beth Keane {ends 5/19}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyJess used to say that he wasn’t himself until he had people around, until he had other moods and personalities to react to, and he resented when she said that, as if he were incapable of self-reflection, but now he sort of knew what she meant. It...

Read More

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Mommy Clique, by Barbara Altaramino {ends 5/18}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyThe Target“I better not regret this.” I glared at Ronnie. I was back where I said I’d never go again. Ronnie had practically begged me to come back, saying she needed a friend with her in the trenches. A friend, she’d actually said. Maybe it was...

Read More

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Nightingale Affair, by Tim Mason {ends 5/17}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley“Detective Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Police, London, here to see the hospital director, Dr. Hall.”“Yes, sir,” replied the  porter. “If you’d follow me, sir.”As they walked, they passed wards in which Field glimpsed uniformed women...

Read More

Book Review: The Other Side of Infinity, by Joan F. Smith

Guest review by: Becki BayleyNickMy parents fawned over December. I could hardly blame them.My mother over-complimented her hair – its length, color, and (apparently high) degree of shine. It was true that her hair was like something out of a movie, I guess. I know it smelled...

Read More

Book Review: In the Vines, by Shannon Kirk

Guest review by: Becki BayleyAlthough she’d never admit it, Aunty has a tendency to view the world in dramatic ways, like me; this is part of our shared identity, something I accept, but, I believe, she tries to deny. So under a coming full moon and cloudless sky, so unlike...

Read More