Veronica G. Henry’s The Foreign Exchange is reminiscent of a cozy mystery with Haitian voodoo elements.

Happy Hump Day and welcome to the WWW Wednesday post for January 18, 2023!

Get in here! Diane Marie Brown’s, Black Candle Women checks these boxes: black and female characters of varying ages, family secrets, voodoo and hoodoo magic, and R&B music references. If this rings any of your bells, give it a read.

Burn Down, Rise Up is a thrill of a book. The writing is informational, tense, and easy to digest. Set in the Bronx, New York, it’s observed that people are steadily disappearing without a trace. The disappearances command the attention of our main character Raquel, her best friend Aaron, his brother, Mario, and a friend ‘not a friend’, Charlize. Charlize’s cousin, Cisco is the most recent disappearance, and finding him requires Raquel and the others to play a dangerous game that could result in them disappearing too.

October came and went, honey! It was my best reading month and I should have shared these books with you sooner. Well…here we are :-). Here are the books I spent time with in October 2023.

Maggie’s upright world which she’s carefully curated, suddenly tilts on an unbalanced plane. Talk to me! Will Maggie tell Hubert about Claude? Will Claude tell his parents about him and Daisy? What do you think will happen next?

The tweet in this facebook post recently came across my feed, so I decided to pick up the author’s book. Luckily, the audiobook was available at my library and you all….it’s REALLY good so far. It’s been such a long time since I’ve reached for a middle grade series.

Howdy and hello Dear Readers! I’ve been tagged to participate in the Horror Booktube Tag. Yay!!! This tag is making its rounds as part of Don’t Die July, a month-long, horror-themed collaboration between Ven of Ven’s_Corner and Noah of In-between The Lines. I’ve been tagged by Noah and will be tagging people as well. Hopefully, they will participate and share their responses. 🙂

For June 2023 I will be reading and discussing the following books: Empty Vows by Mary Monroe, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma. If you are interested in any of the titles, please consider joining me. I don’t want to read alone. 🙂 So join me this month in reading!

A family on the run, in need of money and shelter, but we don’t know why. Insert a haunted house, whose owner is willing to pay the father of said family, to stay there, but won’t go inside or stay in the house themselves. For the “right” amount of money, will he risk it all? Would you stay in the spite house?

The Jot Down – December 10, 2022 Happy Saturday y’all! Welcome to another ‘Jot Down.’ I hope you all’s day has been restful, productive, and safe so far. Before we get into what’s been up with me this week, let me catch you up to speed and piggyback off of last week’s ‘The Jot Down’ post. ***Note: There are affiliate links in this post and if you click on them and make a purchase, we will earn a commission from it. We appreciate your support and thank you in advance. Ketchup Last week I was in the first 15% of…

February, the Month of Love, was my Month of Meh. I had some decent reads, but I wasn’t wowed. It was a pretty mediocre month of reading for me.