Queen B’s Decree: Eye of the Beholder is told from the point-of-view of Maddy, a ghost writer hired for a hush/hush project and staying in a remote mansion in Scotland. As she researches her client, she finds facts and history that don’t line up. And when her client’s business partner abruptly comes and stays with her […]
Queen B’s Decree: Daphne signs the paperwork for her divorce and to celebrate she goes to a baseball game—tickets that her ex-husband initially wanted. Then she gets trashed and starts heckling the home team?? Come on girl, you don’t heckle the home team! And when she “accidentally doesn’t apologize” she just keeps talking to Chris? […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Dead Romantics was a book club pick, and it’s one that I’ve kept my eye on since it released two years ago. But it didn’t take long for me to lose interest. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for the “FMC is a hot mess” trope. Florence is […]
Queen B’s Decree: Hmmmmmm this one disappointed me. The audio was a new release on May 28, 2024, but I didn’t realize this book had been originally been released years ago. I figured it out when there was a mention of a long dead social media company 😆. I struggled a bit with the narration. […]
Queen B’s Decree: When my new book club and I met, we looked through top “book Tok books” to find our first read. Icebreaker was on the list and I already owned it so I was pretty excited that I would finally read a book I own. But…it was not to be. Neither main character […]
Queen B’s Decree: A Fragile Enchantment had the potential to be really interesting. But in the end, I was bored. A little too much instalove, a little too much boring political intrigue, and not enough relationship development. I liked that Niamh had a chronic illness, and that Kit had his own struggles. But I didn’t […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Kingmaker was on my list to read for 2022…and for 2023, so I finally decided to give it a try. I think, it just wasn’t a book for me. The writing was done well, and it was an interesting plot line. And maybe it’s just my brain right now—work and life […]
Queen B’s Decree: Weyward was our book club’s choice for this month, and it was definitely a new-to-me author. I struggled with the plot. Essentially three women (in alternate timelines) are all considered “weyward,” where they are maybe witches? With an affinity for nature, birds, bugs, etc. But also they are all abused. Before I […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve had a relatively good run of book club books, statistically it was time for a failure. When Women Were Dragons is this weird feminist story…yet I still don’t really know why anything happened, as I quit at about 30%. A large group of American women turned into dragons in a massive […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve read a couple fantasy books recently and thought “hey, maybe I’ll read more of that genre.” But The Kingdom is a Golden Cage was a slog for me. I didn’t connect with the characters, I found much of the wording to be very repetitive, and frankly, I didn’t understand the plot. […]