Books
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[Book Review] Minotaur By J.A. Rock & Peet’s Coffee Warrior Grounds
Minotaur is 60% coming-of-age story and 40% monster hunt adventure. Set in the 1930’s, the book opens with 16 year old Thera Ballard coming to live at Rock Point Girls’ Home, an all-girls orphanage, after the last of her family washes their hands of the troublesome teen. Mad at the world and determined to hate everyone and everything, Thera feels a strong kinship with the Minotaur, a vicious sorceress with her own anger problems who once went on bloody rampage through a nearby town until she was imprisoned in the labyrinth.
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[Book Review] Winter Wonderland By Heidi Cullinan & CoffeeAM Kozy Fire Flavored Coffee
Paul Jansen is a romantic. He loves cozy Christmas romances and wants more than anything in the world to be loved by someone who will hold him close and never let him go – and when you meet his homophobic, controlling, judgmental family it’s easy to see why he needs someone like that in his life. Having watched the past two years as both of his best friends got their "Mr. Right" for Christmas, he hardly dares to hope that this year might be his turn.
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[Novella Review] The Entity Who Came For Christmas By Cat Devon & Jackie’s Java Yule Nog
I love holiday books, and I especially love unusual holiday books. The Entity Who Came For Christmas has witches celebrating the Winter Solstice and gallivanting through snowy Chicago with vampire Demon Hunters over the Christmas holiday – can’t get much more unusual than that.
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[Book Review] The Three Sisters (The Krampus Chronicles #1) By Sonia Halbach & San Marco Coffee Sugar Plum Berry
The Three Sisters is a wonderfully whimsical and wholly imaginative Christmas tale that starts with the real-life controversy over the authorship of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Clement Clarke Moore versus Henry Livingston) and then spirals into a Christmas Eve adventure that leads the grandchildren of the two authors in question on a not-so-merry, and sometimes scary, chase.
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[Book Review] And Everything Nice By Mary Leo & Door County Coffee Cranberry Creme Flavored Coffee
About, oh, say, 8 months ago (give or take), Hamilton Winchester and Gaby Venti ran into each other at a business conference and indulged in a brief tryst, which ended with Hamilton never hearing from Gaby again. Hamilton gets the surprise of a lifetime when he pulls up to his family's cabin early Thanksgiving week and finds a fire blazing in the hearth and a heavily pregnant Gaby Venti on the door step.
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[Book Review] A Dash Of Spice By Calista Fox & Paramount Coffee Fall In Love: Pumpkin Spice
With two Stanley Cups and one Olympic gold medal under his belt, Scout Winchester is returning to Plymouth Rock, Colorado a hockey rockstar and hometown hero. Also in town for the Thanksgiving holiday is Scout’s longtime friend and lover, Ciara St. James. Things have always been hot and heavy between Scout and Ciara, but their busy careers have put time and distance between them and it’s been three years since they’ve last seen each other – finally in the same place at the same time, and with the romance of a snowy holiday setting, the pair is quick to make up for lost time ;)
