Book Review: Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone by Phaedra Patrick

***This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review and for Harlequin/MIRA via Netgalley.   Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone is a story of broken dreams, fractured family, and the power of belief. One lonely night, Benedict Stone is woken by banging on his door. On the other side is a young woman named Gemma, […]

Book Review: Open Your Heart by Dr Ruth Cherry

***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review.   Dr Ruth Cherry’s Open Your Heart is a beautiful story steeped in spiritual alchemy and Jungian psychology and stuffed full of valuable wisdom. Annie is a psychologist approaching mid-life who’s growing increasingly dissatisfied with the way her life is going. Once comforting routine is […]

Book Review: Confessions of an American Doctor by Dr Max Kepler

***This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review   Confessions of an American Doctor is a refreshingly honest, and at times openly repentant recounting of one man’s brush with the law and the aftermath that followed. Herein, you will, dear reader, get to know ‘Dr Max Kepler’ (an alias for obvious reasons) quite intimately. […]

Book Review: The Asylum of Dr Caligari by James Morrow

***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews, and via Netgalley   The Asylum of Dr Caligari by James Morrow, spun from the 1920s silent film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, is a commentary on duality- life and death, war and peace, science and art, reason and mysticism, sanity and insanity- […]

Book Review: Fallen Star by Allison Morse

This book was reviewed for San Francisco and Netgalley Fallen Star, by Allison Morse, is a brilliantly wrought cold case murder mystery; a gripping thrill-ride from start to finish. It was one of the rare books I just didn’t want to put down. I had to finish! We follow Kate Bloom, sharing in her chilling […]

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