reviews

Love is Blind, but Death is Ugly Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite Korede knows about blood. More importantly, she knows how to scrub it away with no trace left behind. By day, she is a nurse in a Nigerian hospital, secretly in love with the gentle doctor Tade, who shows an interest in her life despite her plain looks. In this world, she is the best. In her other world, the world where she wakes in the middle of the night and responds to her sister’s pleas to help her clean up after another murder, her skills take on a different tone. My [...]

Love, Lies, and Chilies Author: Marc Fennell Whether you like to grow the occasional porch Jalapeño or snort chili powder online for your adoring YouTube fans, this Audible book/podcast series is a must. I’ve long stuck with Audible, despite the price, and part of that is thanks to the monthly book recommendations with It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chili being one of those. This book/podcast series got added to my queue because I love growing Jalapeños and assorted hot peppers, and while my husband shuns all forms of spice, I come from a line of [...]

When Pagan Forest Deities Go Full Black Metal Author: Adam Nevill Deep in the Scandinavian forest, four friends reconnect for an ill-fated hiking holiday. It’s been many years since these former college buddies were together, and their ribald, ball-busting talk belies that underneath it all, the holiday is not working out. Many of them are hiding failed marriages, others are harboring grudges and presumptions, and none of them are ready for what will happen next. Enter an injury; a shortcut through the woods; endless rain; a strange, dissected corpse high in a tree; and a ruined cabin littered with bones [...]