Review: The Daughter of Time

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Alan Grant an Inspector with Scotland Yard is laid up in the hospital and board out of his mind. In pass the time he see a picture of Richard III, the king who historian's believe had his two nephews killed in the tower in order to secure the crown for himself. It's been more hearsay that he was involved, there was never any real proof that Richard killed his nephews himself or had someone else do it, because that's one mystery that's never been proven, until now, by Inspector Alan Grant.

Grant approaches this mystery like any investigation, he looks for facts, interviews people, but in this case, there's no one alive that he can talk to to get more leads. However, he does do a lot of research of older books, talk to history buffs, and gather's as much information as he can mustard.

The reason I wanted to read this book was that I heard it was one of the best mysteries ever written. I was very much engrossed in this book and I will say, I do agree that it was one of the best mysteries I ever read. Tey wrote a golden age detective story that adheres to all the rules of how you must create believable characters and entice your readers... and she did it with a real event, that everyone learns about at school.

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A Charming Voodoo Blog Tour

Hello everyone! I have been given the honor to participate in Tonya Kappes's Southern Mystery Blog Tour. If you haven't read any of her books, well.... I forgive you! Seriously, if you haven't read any one of her series, I highly suggest that you check them out. Make sure you also go and visit the daily blogs and enter for your chance to win prizes. Please make sure you read carefully what is being asked from you and when the drawing will take place, and then be sure to come back to my blog on Monday, October 10 and enter here, as well as check out what is going on my blog that day.

Let's get this tour started!!!!!!!!!!

Sept 26~ Lisa K's Book Review

9/27~Dig the Reviews

9/28~A Cup of Tea

9/29~Booth Talks Books

9/30~Community Book Stop

10/1~Yaritza Book Group Facebook

10/1~ Girl with Book Lungs

10/2~Bab's Book Bistro

10/3~Melissa's Mocha, Mysteries, and Meows

10/4~Tonya's blog 

10/5~Mystery Reading Nook

10/6~Life with Arielle

10/6~ MJB Reviewers

10/6~ Granny Loves to Read

10/7~Polished Nails and Puppy Dog Tales

​10/7~ A Girl and her Ebooks

10/8~Cozy Up With Kathy

10/9~Brooke's Blog

10/9~The Books The Thing

10/10~Books, Coffee, and My Dog

10/10 Bibliophile Reviews

10/11~Books, Movies, Reviews Oh My!

10/12~Shelley's Book Case

10/13~Killer Characters

10/14~Sharon Reads

10/15-White Pine Cozy Mystery

10/15~I wished I lived in a Library

10/16~Homeschool n' stuff

10/17~Sleuth Cafe

10/18~Wilovebooks

10/18~Bookish Smart

Purchase links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Charming-Voodoo-Magical-Cures-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01IDXN09I/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475000474&sr=1-1&keywords=a+charming+voodoo

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Review: Whitehall - Episode 6: "Divine Passion"

Whitehall - Episode 6: "Divine Passion" by Mary Robinette Kowal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 Star review for Whitehall – Episode 6, Divine Passion. I’d like to than Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Picking up where episode 5 left off in this saga in the lives of King Charles II and Queen Catherine. If you haven’t read the previous five books, I would highly recommend you do. These are short little books that are written by different authors, but are brought together as through it’s written by one author. These are books are great for people that are short on time but want to get some reading in and if you love historical fiction this is a series for you.

In this episode the focus is on Jenny, the little servant girl who connects with Catherine. Jenny wants to see the queen rise to her full potential and will help her do so. Also Charles and Catherine’s relationship is still growing, all the while his young mistress Barbara is still very much present and her jealousy and self-centerness is still fully present. Barbara will stop at nothing to get Charles all to herself. Catherine is trying hard to make her relationship work with Charles and finally gets some much needed success as she puts mistress Barbara in her place.


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Review: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 Star review for Louise Miller’s The city Baker’s Guide to Country Living. I’d like to than Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

The main character Livvy is a pastry chef living in Boston. She works in a club, has a boyfriend that’s married, she has abandonment issues, and when things starts getting to tough for her, she’s does the thing she does best and that’s to run away from her problems. One night while working at the club, she’s bakes an Baked Alaska, and in the process catch’s the club on fire. As her true nature comes out when things happen and she doesn’t want or know how to deal with them, she runs to her best friend Hannah, who lives in this picture perfect Vermont town. Once there Livvy takes a job at Sugar Maple B & B. She starts making friends, enjoying her life and for the first time puts down roots in this small town and for once in her life feels like she has a place to call home.

Livvy’s journey is warmhearted, fun, tricky, and at times very humorous. The author did a wonderful job of creating the characters that were easy to connect with. She brought them to life as though they are real a person instead of just character’s in a book. The descriptions of the town and the smells are as through you can actually see them and smell them. One thing I would say is that I probably gained twenty pounds just reading this book when she described the food or mentioned it, so I would suggest you have a snack at your ready while reading this books, it will make you hungry, also it wouldn’t hurt to have some tissues next to you as well, there are some tear-jerker parts in the book. The pace of the book was a nice reading pace, one to where you wanted to keep reading and not miss a second of the book.

For this being a debut novel, it happens to be one of the best debut novels that I’ve read this year. I would encourage people to go out and purchase this book and just have a fun time reading it. It’s well worth it.


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Review: Silk Stalkings

Silk Stalkings by Diane Vallere
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What can I say about this book, from the cover which is a perfect fit to the story, to the colors that are blinding, but really makes this a pretty cover, to the story, then the mystery, even the main character’s real name will make you smile, Polyester Monroe, to the author, all are really good.

Silk Stalkings is the third book in the Material Witness Mysteries. If you haven’t read the first two, you won’t have any problems reading this one first and then going back and reading the other two in the series, but I do highly recommend you read this series, it is such a delightful read, you can’t help but smile while you read this book and get to know the characters.

The book takes place in San Ladron. Poly (Polyster) Monroe owns a material shop. She helps her friend Genevieve turn her little tea shop into a Midnight in Paris theme using fabric’s from her store. After she closes up the shop for her friend she strolls over to Waverly House to see the gardens. Later that night she is asked to help with the Miss Tangorli pageant, by helping the girls choose fabrics and designs their gowns. Her and Vaughn, her on/off boyfriend sees Harvey Halliwell owner of the Citrus King talking to a strange man, things seem to be getting heated between them. Next thing they know, Halliwell is found dead, and Poly goes into her investigation mode, to try and solve who killed him.

Poly has one other thing that she does do in this book that doesn’t involve a crime, but she tries to figure out who the mystery man is in her friend Charlie’s life. Charlie is Vaughn’s sister that was given up for adoption. She claims she wants nothing to do with her birth family, but then acts like she’s mad about not having money and has to work as a mechanic. She seems to have a bitter taste in her mouth and that didn’t settle with me in the book. I found that Charlie was my only complaint about this book.

Other than not liking Charlie I found that I loved everything else about the book, right up to the end. I enjoyed getting to know the character; the mystery had me guessing the whole time, and felt as though I was being pulled into the book.

I would like to thank the author Diane Vallere for allowing me to read this book for exchange for my honest review.



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