Category: Reviews

  • The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane – Book Review

    The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Cordelia’s great-aunt Penelope has passed away, naming Cordelia the sole heir to the Chickadee Motel. She has no memory of a great-aunt and no interest in hospitality, but the will stipulates that the motel can’t be sold until its residents leave or pass away – so she reluctantly heads back down to…

  • Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett – Book Review

    Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a…

  • Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson – Book Review

    Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding toward him. And then . . . blink. He’s back on the curb, miraculously still alive. A five-foot-tall crow watches him from atop a nearby sign, somehow unseen by the rushing crowd of morning commuters. Desperate for answers…

  • Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

    Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

    Quick Synopsis – Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes. Philadelphia born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently…