Book Nook: A Challenge!

Welcome to the New Year!

Last year I participated in the GoodReads Reading Challenge. I chose 25 as the number of books that I would read (as the past couple of years I went from 100 (which didn't happen) to 15, which was surpassed).

I knocked that goal out of the park, reading well over 30 books. (34/25 woo!)

I tend to read fantasy, young adult, mysteries, and a variety of historical non-fiction. I delve into fiction and biographies from time to time as well.

I love recommendations from anyone as well - gives a different perspective


I'd like to know what sort of books you read. Which genre do you tend to pull towards?


Here's a few that I read through last year, as well as some series I'm going to continue on with this year:

Crown & Key Series

A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery

Black Cat Bookshop

Odd Thomas Series

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery

Booktown Mysteries

Splintered Series

Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery

Precious Stone Trilogy

Kingdom Keepers (Will continue the series this year)

The Land of Stories (Will continue the series this year)

I've got a lot of other books on the docit for this year as well including:

Les Miserables

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A Tale of Two Cities

Give me a few books you thoroughly love to read. I'd like to see what's caught everyone's fancy.

Book Nook: Of Grave Concern

Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of reading and finishing a few different books. Allow me to introduce you a a rather paranormal western.

Today's novel will be:

Book: Of Grave Concern

Series: Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery #1

Author: Max McCoy

Ophelia Wylde is a woman of twenty and eight years and already a widow. As with many other women who've lost their husbands in the great Civil War, she's distrought about the loss of her husband Jonathan. Every single woman who lost a loved one has turned to Spiritualism to try and have one last word with their beloved.

Having been tricked once already, Ophelia is now a Spiritualist in search of one final Seance that will allow her to speak with Jonathan. However, on her way to that final session she's waylaid in Dodge City, due to an uncanny resemblence to a murderess from the prarie.

With her friend and companion Eddie (quoth the raven, literally), Ophelia becomes entrangled in an old murder when she sees the ghost of a girl that was murdered.

While trapped in Dodge she keeps up her work as a Spiritualist, all the while trying to figure out a way to clear her name. (Email and phones hadn't been invented yet, so trying to find a source is impossible.)

While Spiritualism is a scam, and Ophelia knows it, only one other person in town seems to know it. Jack Calder is a bounty hunter, here to keep an eye on her so she doesn't run. However when a reading goes wrong and she's buried six feet under - literally - the dead start speaking. They have dozens of things to say.

There is a twist at the end, which I won't spoil for you. Pick up a copy of "Of Grave Concern" today!


Got any books you'd recommend I review? Leave a comment below.