★★★ ½ "I know you guys got rule, but could you check up on it? Maybe see if something got missed?" Howard County has just been hit with one of the coldest snaps on record - but the cases keep coming. Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller is asked to look into a cold case - Jayvon Fletch disappeared from… Continue reading Ice on the Bay – Dale E. Lehman & Kathleen Lehman

★★★★ “Break the chains, my love.” Darrow has lived his entire life underground.  He lives, breaths and works thousands of meters below the surface as part of the "Reds" (lowest caste of his society) whose task is to teraform Mars for the generations to come. Despite the cold, the dark and the damp, he is happy. His society is… Continue reading Red Rising – Pierce Brown

Stop complaining. Stop being so wishy-washy. You want power? Take it. Roxy - a quasi-vegan, dog-loving perpetually broke artist - has hit yet another stumbling block (could it actually be rock bottom??). She's quickly running out of money and desperately needs someone to rent her spare bedroom. ...it's important for you know once and for all that… Continue reading The Roxy Letters – Mary Pauline Lowry

★★★★ The dead were not silent, if you knew how to listen. Dr Anna Savard and Dr Sophie Savard are best friends and each other's closest cousins. Sophie just came back from a harrowing journey - one that forever changed her. ...the trip to Europe as a bride was hazy in her memory, but she would never… Continue reading Where the Light Enters – Sara Donati

★★★★ ½ You're not helpless; you're not hopeless. You are a strong and powerful overcomer, and you deserve everything God has in store for you. Let's face it - the Bible is intimidating. It's long. The language is unfamiliar. The interpretations can be confusing as all get-out. It has become the great white whale for many a person - something that… Continue reading The Bible in 52 Weeks: A Yearlong Bible Study for Women – Dr. Kimberly D. Moore

★★★★ Remember when you watched Bambi for the first time and you got to the part where Bambi's mother died...And in that second you realized that if Bambi's mom can die, so can everybody else. People have lived and they have died. And before the modern era, they died a lot easier. Seriously, there were A… Continue reading How They Croaked – Georgia Bragg

★★★ ½ "If we get separated and you have to choose between life and joining us, choose life, okay? Live. Live for us. Breathe for us. Survive for us." Janelle aka Ellie is one of the few survivors who made it through the first few waves of the Ilori alien invasion. The new world is...depressingly different. The… Continue reading The Sound of Stars – Alechia Dow

★ Divergent - the Walmart of Young Adult. Enjoy the selflessness of Katnis? Love the Harry Potter houses? Adore the will-they-won't-they love from Twilight? Well, here's the watered down combination of every YA series out there. There's Tris - the most annoying main character I've met in a while. The pendulum swings from - from "oh look at me I… Continue reading Divergent – Veronica Roth