PRETTY IN INK by Karen E. Olson is the second book in the A Tattoo Shop Mystery series. The protagonist, Brett Kavanaugh, is a female tattooist who owns her own tattoo shop, The Painted Lady.

I loved the first book in the series (THE MISSING INK) and I have a feeling I’m going to enjoy this one as well. I believe this is the first time I’m reading a novel with drag queens in them, and [...]

GEORGE’S SECRET KEY TO THE UNIVERSE is written by Professor Stephen Hawking with his daughter, Lucy.

Stephen Hawking is a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and a leading theoretical physicist in the world. He also wrote the multi-million worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time.

I picked up this book because I like science. Astronomy is one of my favourite subjects. The book mixes fiction and facts giving readers an exciting adventure story. George is a young boy who likes technology and wants a computer more than anything else. But his parents do not like modern inventions and want to live a simpler life. They wash their clothes by hand, use candles in place of electricity, and so on. All George has for himself is his pet pig, Freddy.

I finished EAD UNTIL DARK in one sitting. Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in small-town Louisiana. She has a ‘disability’ because she is telepathic and that makes dating very difficult. She meets a vampire named Bill Compton at the bar where she works and they fall in love.

BED OF ROSES by Nora Roberts is the second book in the Bride Quartet. In the Bride Quartet, we meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac, and their love stories. Together, they are the co-owners of Vows, a wedding planning company.

In Book 2, we are taken into the world of Emmaline “Emma” Grant who is a florist and Jack Cooke who is an architect. Jack is also a long-time family friend.

Emma is a firm believer in romance and her own love life is great. Although so, she still hasn’t found her Mr. Right […]

BE WITH YOU by Takuji Ichikawa (translated from the Japanese by Terry Gallagher) has a quiet, sentimental value to it. It’s a touching story about a husband and wife, and a little boy. Mio (wife) had died but when she returns home a year later, Takkun (husband) and Yuji (son) are shocked.

DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER by Jeff Lindsay features a serial killer with a heart—the psychopath Dexter Morgan who is a full-time forensic blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police. He kills only the bad guys (and is never caught) and is driven by […]

DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks is about John Tyree. John is a troubled young man who joins the army after high school. He meets Savannah Lynn Curtis during his leave and in that short time, falls in love with her. Their feelings are mutual. Little did they know, the two words—“Dear John”—will change their lives forever.

BLACK HILLS by Nora Roberts is a joint-reading with Julia. As always, it’s been great fun doing it with her who is also a big fan of NR. For this review, we both have decided to do a Q&A format by answering both sets of questions. Let’s begin! […]