Review: Abby's Journey - Book #2 Forever Abby - Steena Holmes - February 2017  There’s something incredibly special about returning to a story years later and finding that it still holds your heart just as gently as before. That’s exactly how I felt picking up Abby's Journey by Steena Holmes , almost a decade after I first read Saving Abby back in 2018. From the moment I began, it felt like coming home. This time, we follow Abby once the fragile baby about to be born in the first book now twenty years old and finally stepping into life with a clean bill of health after years of illness. Knowing her history made her journey all the more emotional. There’s a quiet triumph in watching her embrace a future that once felt so uncertain. What truly warmed my heart was the trip she takes with her grandmother, Millie. Originally planned for Millie and Abby’s mother, Claire, this journey becomes something deeper ,a bridge between past and present. Through shared memories and long-held se...

Review: The Catch - Book #2 The Rise Series - Shari Low and Ross King - February 2023 This book left me in two minds and then wondering whether I will read the last one in the series when released - The Fall.  After reading The Rise and enjoying it, I was excited to read this one and see where it took us. I felt a bit let down as it had amazing premise and exciting parts, but the ending was not so great and for me as a reader - I am the type where the ending makes or breaks the book. This ending left me feeling unsettled and restless as it felt unfinished and a letdown. The Catch starts with the three friends back together after the events of The Rise pulled them back into the same circle. Mirren, Davie, and Zander - their past brought to light. Now Mirren is grieving the loss of her daughter Chloe to drugs, Davie is trying to come to terms with the fact he and Zander are half-brothers and Zander is just good ol' Zander. What happens though when Mirren sees a ghost from her past an...

Would You Like Poison with that? Today’s journey takes us to another infamous doctor, a bit lesser-known than Harold Shipman but just as deadly and also from the UK. Thomas Neill Cream born in May 1850 dreamed of becoming a doctor and in the world of developing medical procedures, diagnoses, and people putting their full trust in doctors as unlike now with the internet, people weren’t any the wiser, and of course, it’s in the doctors’ code to save people not kill. Dr. Cream was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor who earned the moniker of the Lamberth Poisoner as he used strychnine to poison his victims.   Dr. Cream was one of the few killers who managed to kill over three countries and murdered at least ten people that we know of and like most killers back then, he targeted the lower-income women, prostitutes, and those females wanting back-alley abortions Dr. Cream was finally caught in 1892 and hanged for his crimes. During his last moments, it was also rumored that he ...