Review: The Pink Bonnet - Liz Tolsma - June 2019 After reading The White City by Grace Hitchcock and loving the way that the author fictionalized but still explained the crime of the time, I enjoyed it so much that I went out and found out more information about H.H Holmes. I also went out and grabbed the rest of the series of True Colors. The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma tells the story of Georgia Tann aka Miss Tann who ran the Tennessee Children's Home. She was named the Baby Thief as she would snatch children out of what she called "neglectful situations" and sell them in illegal adoptions.  Most of the children did come from bad situations and she saved a few, but the majority were kidnapped from their parents. In The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma, we meet Cecile Dowd and her three-year-old daughter Millie Mae. Cecile's husband Nate has passed away and she is working and trying to be a great mother especially during the current Depression sweeping the States as th...

Review: The White City - Book #1 True Colors Series - Grace Hitchcock - March 2019 This series I have had for a year now and I keep thinking about it and then, of course, other things pop up but lately, I had been thinking more about the series and so finally decided to knuckle down and read the first book "The White City" by Grace Hitchcock.  Each book is featured on a true American crime but written in a fictional account with a romance storyline weaved into the story. During the past couple of months, I have been getting into the podcast My Favorite Murder and the earlier episodes kept mentioning H.H Holmes aka America's first Serial Killer and how he was known as the Devil in the White City. After finishing this book by Grace Hitchcock, I went onto the library catalog and have put Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City on hold to read once the lockdown is over. This book I wasn't 100% sure how much I would enjoy it as I tend to be a bit...

The Scarecrow & George C Mia Kerick Publication date: June 3rd 2019 Genres: Contemporary, LGBTQ+, New Adult, Romance High school senior Van Liss is barely human. He thinks of himself as a scarecrow—ragged and unnerving, stuck, and destined to spend his life cold and alone. If he ever had feelings, they were stomped out long ago by his selfish mother and her lecherous boyfriend. All he’s been left with is bitter contempt, to which he clings. With a rough exterior long used to keep the world at bay, Van spooks George Curaco, the handsome new frycook at the diner where he works. But George C senses there is more to the untouchable Van and refuses to stop staring, fascinated by his eccentricity. When Van learns that George C is even more cold, alone, and frightened than himself, Van welcomes him to his empty home. And ends up finding his heart. Their road to trust is rocky and, at times, even dangerous. And looming evil threatens to keep them apart forever. Fair warning: Y...

This is my stop during the book blitz for Best Friends…Forever? by Krysten Lindsay Hager. This book blitz is organized by Lola's Blog Tours . The book blitz runs from 14 till 20 September, you can view the blitz schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours. So far this series contains 2 books: True Colors (Landry's True Colors #1) and Best Friends... Forever? (Landry's True Colors #2). Book 3 Landry in Like is coming soon! Best Friends... Forever? (Landry's True Colors #2) By Krysten Lindsay Hager Genre: Contemporary Age category: Middle Grade/ Young Adult Release Date: March 24, 2015 Blurb: Good friends have your back, but some go behind it. Landry Albright hopes the new year will start off in an amazing way—instead she has to deal with more frenemy issues, boy drama, and having most of her best friends make the cheerleading squad without her. Suddenly, it seems like all anyone can talk about is starting high school next year—something she finds terri...

  Review: Believe - Book #3 True Believers Series - Erin McCarthy -  January 2014 What happens when two people running from their past and trying to start fresh and new fall into each other's arms yet their pasts haven't exactly left them. Can the pair make each other believe that the other person is worth it and that sometimes in the game of love, when all else fails , you have to often believe that you have found a good thing and that though more often than not most good things are too good to be true, that in the darkness if you believe then you have hit the jackpot of love.  Robin used to be the party girl in her group, dressing up to the nines , hooking up with strangers and getting wasted as that's what college was all about right , hanging loose and experimenting ? That was until one party where she got so wasted that she blacked out and when she awoke the next morning, she had done the one thing she thought she would or could never do and that was sle...