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Review ~ Dying for Chocolate ~ Diane Mott Davidson

Review ~ Dying for Chocolate ~ Diane Mott Davidson

Dying for Chocolate was a book club read otherwise I wouldn’t have started a series at #2. 😉 I never felt lost though and enjoyed my introduction to Diana Mott Davidson and Goldy. Highlights Goldy Goldy is a likeable character and I identified with her on several levels. She lacked a bit in the self-esteem department having suffered a nasty divorce. She’s also trying to do her very best in raising her young son. I appreciated her culinary skills as well as her amateur sleuthing skills. I also appreciated DMD’s surrounding Goldy with good, supportive friends and a solid love possibility. Mystery The mystery was well done. I hadn’t figured it all out by the reveal but a majority of […]

Posted 1 July, 2020 by Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 3 Comments
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Review: The Stranger You Seek – Amanda Kyle Williams

Review: The Stranger You Seek – Amanda Kyle Williams

The Stranger You Seek is a very eerie, creepy, stalkerish kind of mystery, in which Keye Street gets through so many twists and turns it was impossible to figure out who the killer was. My The Stranger You Seek review: Keye Street is the kind of heroine I wish there were more of! She is pretty flawed, and she makes no qualms about it! She’s also very smart, has a sarcastic sense of humor and is fiercely loyal. Adopted when she was a little girl, she grew up being the only Asian looking child in her white Atlanta neighbourhood, and her brother was the only black kid there. Diversity is very well done in The Stranger You Seek, but it’s […]

Posted 9 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: Between the Sheets – Molly O’Keefe

Review: Between the Sheets – Molly O’Keefe

Between the Sheets is a very profound story, where the romance took the back-seat and finding themselves became the characters’ main purpose. My Between the Sheets review: When I started reading Between the Sheets, I thought I had it all figured out! Hot erotic images were in my mind, but they were quickly transformed into an incredible story, with a plot that encompassed much more than romance, and characters that were complex, and that evolved in leaps and bounds throughout the book. It was such a nice surprise to have both community, family connections, difficult relationships and hardship all mixed together to create a beautiful story with characters I could truly root for. Shelby was still dealing with the aftermath […]

Posted 16 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Don’t Talk to Strangers – Amanda Kyle Williams

Review: Don’t Talk to Strangers – Amanda Kyle Williams

*I received a free ARC of Don’t Talk to Strangers from Bantam Books via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review* My Don’t Talk to Strangers Review Don’t Talk to Strangers is a fantastic, devious and clever suspense story. Complete with a big fat who-dun-it, a most excellent private detective / profiler who used to work for the FBI and a possible serial killer in a small town where there are many small-minded people. Keye Street sure has her work cut out for her when the sheriff of Whisper, Georgia, calls her to ask for her services in a case where two female bodies have been found one on top of the other in the woods, close to a stream. […]

Posted 9 June, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 7 Comments
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Review: Wild Child – Molly O’Keefe

Review: Wild Child – Molly O’Keefe

*I received a free ARC of Wild Child from Bantam via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Wild Child surprised me, because I thought I would only get a quick, light and superficial chick-lit based on the blurb, what I got was a complex story with characters who had to fight their demons in order to move forward in their lives. Jackson and Monica seem to be complete opposites, she is a former reality TV star and he is the mayor of a small town. Monica has been jet-setting, writing tell-all books and appears to be a woman who will never settle. Jackson has raised his younger sister for the past seven years, after their parents died in an […]

Posted 19 September, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: The Secret Race – Tyler Hamilton

Review: The Secret Race – Tyler Hamilton

The Secret Race was lent to me by my very good friend Colleen while we were in Paris to watch the arrival of the Tour de France on Champs Elysées this past July. And I couldn’t put it down! Tyler Hamilton goes all the way, he explains how he started doping, with the team-director’s and some of his team-mates’ blessings, but he never tries to shift the blame on anyone but himself. Co-written with Daniel Coyle, it almost seems like a confessional, and I think it is much-needed, if the cylcists and the sport is to ever be saved. As I have been following the Tour de France for a long time, and have been disappointed by all the doping […]

Posted 26 August, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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