Review: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea #1) written by Rebecca Thorne narrated by Jessica Threet My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them. All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the […]

Posted February 4, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Stories From the Deep by Claudie Arseneault

Stories From the Deep (The Chronicles of Nerezia #4) by Claudie Arseneault My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Fate and friendship brought Horace, Rumi, Keza, and Aliyah together in Rumi’s sentient self-propelling wagon. They seek the forest haunting Aliyah’s dream, hoping for answers about the elf’s past and unique abilities—but first, they need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers and react to Aliyah’s presence. They finally leave the coast to undertake a long ocean crossing filled with the sailors’ brand-new games and fearsome […]

Posted February 2, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Sunday Post #685

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This was a tiring week. The appointment we had this week about our financial aid went really well and we will keep the financial aid, so that’s good. I was fearing for the worse and quite stressed about the appointment. I am glad the appointment went well. After […]

Posted February 1, 2026 by Lola in Sunday Post / 3 Comments

Review: Scythe Grove Academy by Laura Greenwood

Scythe Grove Academy (Scythe Grove Academy #1-3) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Academy/ Paranormal Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Syxe has seen ghosts her entire life, but it’s only when she learns she’s a reaper that it all starts to make sense. Most students at Scythe Grove Academy are worrying about their studies, not the cults they grew up in, but for Syxe, that’s her reality. With her past a mystery and her powers as a reaper completely undeveloped, there’s lots for Syxe still to learn. If you like heroines […]

Posted January 30, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Claws for Concern by Miranda James

Claws for Concern (Cat in the Stacks #9) written by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Charlie Harris is busy enjoying his new grandson when a mysterious man with a connection to Charlie’s family starts visiting the library, bringing with him troubling questions about an unsolved murder…. Charlie may be a proud new grandfather, but he and Diesel still have work to do at Athena College and the small Mississippi town’s public library. He’s too busy to deal with true-crime writer Jack Pemberton, who wants […]

Posted January 28, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Berried Secrets by Peg Cochran

Berried Secrets (Cranberry Cove #1) written by Peg Cochran narrated by Romy Nordlinger My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: When Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove – a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan – to help her half brother, Jeff, on his cranberry farm, the last thing she expects to harvest is a dead body. It seems that Sam Culbert, who ran the farm while Jeff was deployed overseas, had some juicy secrets that soon prove fatal, and Jeff is ripe for the picking as a prime […]

Posted January 26, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Sunday Post #684

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? Ugh what a week. We had received a letter for an appointment regarding out financial aid, the date didn’t work for us, so I called them on Monday to change that. This was one of the most difficult phone conversations I’ve ever had as I had to keep […]

Posted January 25, 2026 by Lola in Sunday Post / 18 Comments