Dead Man's Detective #1

 Thank you #NetGalley and #Rachel Graves for letting to me read and review #DeadMansDetective.

Ex army officer Elizabeth Hicks, who is also a spirit witch, is trying to live a normal life after fighting in a war. 

Elizabeth receives a call from a friend from her old unit while in the army. He is asking her help in choosing whether he should take a side job for money. She agrees to listen to the details. Once she knows the details, she suggests he walk away. 

Soon, she is thrown in to a who-dun-it and meeting evil people in her community. She is learning about all sorts of secrets from those close to her, that changes her perspective on everyone around her. 

If you enjoy reading Janet Evanovich or Laurell K. Hamilton, you should definitely give #Rachel Graves a try. You will not be disappointed. 

Spec Ops Z by Gavin G. Smith

 Well, that was a wild ride! I have read a lot of zombie books and this one is quite different from all the others I have read. Lots of violence and gore with a touch of compassion and unexpected friendships. 

Vadim Scorlenski is the leader of a group of hard edged soldiers. They all have a special skill set that makes them perfect to be zombie hunters. But there is more to that story than just killing the zombies....

All in all, a quick zombie book that satisfies the need for a new zombie book that is not redundant like all the others. 

#SpecOpsZ #NetGalley

Devil's Bane by Glenn Williams

Thank you to #BookSirens and #GlennWilliams for allowing me to read and review Devil's Bane,

This is book 1 of the The Port Hollow Witches series. If I had put a genre on this one, it would be a mix of romance, fantasy, and thriller.

Rory Garcia has a secret. He can't share it with just anyone, if he did, he could be killed for it.

Kathryn Silk is a witch with a wicked past. One that haunts her every day of her life

Dead bodies are piling up in Port Hollow. Kathry, Rory and other members of their coven must work together to find out who is killing people and why.

I rated this book 3 stars because so much happens it was overwhelming at times. With all that happened, I did not connect with the characters and felt unmoved by their story. I wish I would have liked this one more, it was just too much all at once for my senses.

Everyone Is A Moon by Sawney Hatton

Thank you to #Booksirens and author Sawney Hatton for the ARC copy of this book.

This is a book of short stories by the author Sawney Hatton.  This book is NOT for everyone. If you get offended easily or queasy with certain topics, probably need to skip some of the short stories. Otherwise, this is a good, quick read. I enjoyed most of the stories. However, some of them kind of left me wanting more.

In Hatton's introduction, he explains these stories are from his dark mind from his childhood and in to his adult years. 

Hey Hatton, can you write a full novel of The Mortality Machine, The Boy Who Cried Alien or Mr. Gregori!?! I can think of a few twists and morbid events for those!

Willow by E. M. Raegan

Willow by E. M. Raegan is a fast paced zombie story with a little bit of romance thrown in. No, not romance between zombies, but between survivors.

Willow, our main character, is a young adult that has led a tumultuous childhood and follows her moms whims to try to keep the peace with extended family and friends.

Jason, our other main character, does not like Willow from the very beginning. He does what he can to prevent Willow from being accepted in to the family and the biker gang he belongs to.

The books starts right off when the zombies attack. It is action packed the entire time and does not disappoint. This isn't a hardcore zombie book, it is very mild and has an easy flow to read. It does end with a cliffhanger, which for some is irksome and others will find that okay.

I look forward to the second book!

Thank you to #BookSirens and #E.M.Raegan for this ARC copy!

Christmas in February. I love Christmas, but I find it hard to do small Christmas cross stitch patterns. So I joined a group that gives us a Christmas challenge each month to do a small stitch. So here is my tree!

Busy working on a Mill Hill cross stitch/bead kit.

To Read List for 2020

My to read list for 2020. I hope to accomplish reading at least 50% of this list in 2020.

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)	Corey, James S.A. *
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)	Connolly, John *
Chinglish	Cheung, Sue
The Remaking	Chapman, Clay McLeod *
The City Among the Stars	Carsac, Francis
Through the Woods	Carroll, Emily
When I Arrived at the Castle	Carroll, Emily
Out of Skin	Carroll, Emily
Omega Days (Omega Days, #1)	Campbell, John L. *
Slashed (Oil Apocalypse, #1)	Cadle, Lou *
Toil & Trouble	Burroughs, Augusten *
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me	Brubaker, Ed
The October Country	Bradbury, Ray
Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon,#1)	Bourne, J.L. *
Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)	Blake, Kendare *
Brains: A Zombie Memoir	Becker, Robin *
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)	Bardugo, Leigh *
Elevator Pitch	Barclay, Linwood *
The Supervillain and Me	Banas, Danielle *
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)	Arden, Katherine *
Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, #1)	Anderson, Kevin J. *
Rules for Vanishing	Marshall, Kate Alice *
Zombie CSU	Maberry, Jonathan *
Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)	Maberry, Jonathan *
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)	Maas, Sarah J. *
Night Watch	Lukyanenko, Sergei
Area 187: Almost Hell	Lowther, Eric R. *
The Bone Houses	Lloyd-Jones, Emily *
The Stories You Tell (Roxane Weary, #3)	Lepionka, Kristen *
Braineater Jones	Kozeniewski, Stephen *
The Twisted Ones	Kingfisher, T.
Insignia (Insignia, #1)	Kincaid, S.J. *
The Empress (The Diabolic, #2)	Kincaid, S.J. *
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants	Kimmerer, Robin Wall
A Curse So Dark and Lonely	Kemmerer, Brigid *
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth	Kaku, Michio
Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson, #8)	Jones, Darynda *
Over the Line	Irvin, Kelly *
Dark Side of the Spoon: The Rock Cookbook	Inniss, Joe
404 Ink, 1: Error	Ink, 404
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)	Hutchison, Dot
Full Throttle	Hill, Joe *
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)	Henry, Christina *
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Hendrix, Grady *
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary	Henderson, Caspar
The Undead: The First Seven Days (The Undead #1-7 )	Haywood, R.R. *
The Gone-Away World	Harkaway, Nick *
A Cosmology of Monsters	Hamill, Shaun *
The Grown-Ass Women's Club: Be Awesome. Earn Badges.	Haggerty, Meredith
Blood for Blood (Wolf By Wolf, #2)	Graudin, Ryan *
Outpost (Donovan Trilogy #1)	Gear, W. Michael
The Graveyard Book	Gaiman, Neil *
Death: The High Cost of Living	Gaiman, Neil *
Snow, Glass, Apples	Gaiman, Neil *
Upright Women Wanted	Gailey, Sarah *
Stone Cold Heart	Frear, Caz
Conspiracy Game (GhostWalkers, #4)	Feehan, Christine *
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)	Elison, Meg *
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (The Thorne Chronicles, #1)	Eason, K. *
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon	Dispenza, Joe
Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)	Córdova, Zoraida *
Wanderers	Wendig, Chuck *
The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)	Thompson, Tade *
Docile	Szpara, K.M. *
Godblind (Godblind, #1)	Stephens, Anna *
Rocket's Red Glare: A WWII Era Alternate History Novel	Stein, Cy *
See Jane Die (Stacy Killian, #1; The Malones, #2)	Spindler, Erica *
Extinction Shadow (Extinction Cycle: Dark Age #1)	Smith, Nicholas Sansbury *
They Do the Same Things Different There	Shearman, Robert
The Long Way Down (Daniel Faust, #1)	Schaefer, Craig *
Head On (Lock In, #2)	Scalzi, John *
Skyward (Skyward, #1)	Sanderson, Brandon *
Lock Every Door	Sager, Riley *
Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between (Rhiannon's Law, #1)	Saare, J.A. *
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)	Ryan, Carrie *
Starhammer (The Vang, #1)	Rowley, Christopher
Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues (White Trash Zombie, #2)	Rowland, Diana *
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)	Roberts, Nora *
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)	Reynolds, Alastair
A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)	Raybourn, Deanna *
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts	Racculia, Kate *
The Poison Thread	Purcell, Laura *
The Toll	Priest, Cherie *
Melt (Melt, #1)	Pike, J.J.
Disappearing Earth	Phillips, Julia *
Married with Zombies (Living with the Dead, #1)	Petersen, Jesse *
Becoming	Obama, Michelle *
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)	Muir, Tamsyn *
The Starless Sea	Morgenstern, Erin *
Gods of Jade and Shadow	Moreno-Garcia, Silvia *
After the Flood	Montag, Kassandra *
The Remaining (The Remaining, #1)	Molles, D.J. *
The Silent Patient	Michaelides, Alex *
Domain of the Dead (Domain of the Dead #1)	McKinnon, Iain *
Dead City (Dead World, #1)	McKinney, Joe *
Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Roads, #1)	McGuire, Seanan *
The Other Wife	McGowan, Claire *
Uncanny Collateral (Valkyrie Collections, #1)	McClellan, Brian *
Subhuman (Unit 51 #1)	McBride, Michael *
The Reign of the Kingfisher	Martinson, T.J.
Monster	Martinez, A. Lee *