The ONLY HEART that MATTERS

The Only Heart that Matters

LISA SHELBY

Review by Author Roy Murry

Mia and Angus live in a small town in a close-knit family environment and have been in love since childhood. Their adult journeys separated them: he into the military and the killing fields, and her into becoming a single parent to a boy named Sawyer.

Years later, Mia and Angus' hearts are calling for each other. However, they have personal secrets that keep them from taking the final step toward bliss.

These conflicts become clear, and their family members help them navigate their dilemmas, culminating in an unpredictable conclusion.

The story is full of twists and turns that keep the reader engaged.  A romance to read if you love that genre.

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AGED FOR MURDER

AGED FOR MURDER

A Tuscan Vineyard

Cozy mystery Book I

 

FIONA GRACE

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

This well-written novel does not seem to be a cozy mystery. It becomes a mystery more than halfway through this two-hundred-fifty-page book.

It's a lead-in to a series on winemaking and the story of how Olivia ends up in Tuscany. Olivia makes a life-changing decision on a whim.

After muddling through events, she takes a job at a vineyard and has problems with her community-hated boss, who ends up dead. Olivia does not seem to be a sleuth, and the problem solves itself with one of her whims.

The read is an excellent background on wine. So, if you like wine, this series will cheer you up.

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REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS

REALITY IS NOT

WHAT IT SEEMS

The Journey to

Quantum Gravity

CARLO ROVELLI

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Is a glass of water ever empty? In college, I studied astronomy as part of my elective curriculum, which I enjoyed immensely and understand the author. The truth is: A glass is never empty.

Mr. Rovelli lays out an extensive account of humanity's quest to understand the universe, historically, from before Einstein to Hawking. A science layman with an inquisitive mind will find his explanation of what reality is fascinating.

The scientific concepts and theories are clearly written in a plausible way, so the reader's interest will be piqued, and they will continue an educational journey. After reading this science nonfiction, the reader will want more, as I do.

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SEASON OF MAGIC

SEASON OF MAGIC

CHRISTINE POPE

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Rose is a witch, prima in waiting, who runs away from her responsibility of kissing men ages twenty-one to twenty-four, to find her consort. She finds her soulmate in Shaine, a twenty-eight-year-old warlock, who belongs to another clan.

Their relationship is a romance made in heaven, but it's too long in the making because there is no MAGIC, a feeling Rose needs to fulfill her responsibility. MAGIC must happen.

This witchy romance will overwhelm the reader. I wanted to stop reading about adults who let a religion called MAGIC control their lives. I kept on reading, and the story ended the way romances always do.

The writing keeps a romance lover on the edge – will she or won't she lose her virginity, a key MAGIC (Rose's consciousness) controls? Sleeping together does not count.

SEASON is a good novel, but only for romance lovers. Everyone else, stay away. LOL

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Art & Craft of Murder

Cozy Mysteries: The Art & Craft of Murder

(Whistler's Cove Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Cozy Cat Parker

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

The title is longer than the story. LOL 

Misty, a teahouse owner, has a regular elderly female customer in town who is the only one who drinks a particular homemade tomato juice.

This customer, who controls an art gallery, which is the center of an art controversy, dies after drinking the juice. So begins the short mystery and ends with an unusual and unpredictable event.

The setup for a series features good characters, a fast-paced story, and easy-to-read prose. It's fifty pages, and the price is zero on Kindle.

Quick read and good lead-in like a prologue to fun reads.

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EMMA

EMMA

Jane Austin

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

I saw the movie before I purchased and read this book. The written novel is much funnier than the movie.

Jane's English prose is exquisite. The characters and their quirks, opinions on mundane items, as someone going out in the light rain to the post office, are hysterical.

 I could go on and on about the many episodes that explain and describe characters' traits, but I will not. EMMA faults in all her evaluations of who is in love with whom.

EMMA concludes, at the end of 500 pages of indulgences, that she could not see what was in front of her for many years, her love for another.

This is a romance comedy you will love.

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A STUDY IN SCARLET

 

A STUDY IN SCARLET

 Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

SCARLET is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series, where he meets Dr. Watson to become roommates in 1878. "No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so," Holmes answers Dr. Watson's question on deduction.

Their relationship develops between the two when a London detective arrives at the new residence, facing a quagmire of being unable to solve a crime. Watson and the detectives have cluttered minds as they watch Sherlock go about developing a resolve.

A man is found dead with no apparent wounds. When a second man, who had been in the company of the first man, is dead in another part of London, Sherlock has solved the crime and has put a trap in place because of a carriage imprint.

Every one of Sherlock's cohorts, including the reader, is oblivious to his deductions until the crime is solved and he enlightens the men with cluttered minds. How did Holmes do that? --- will be on everyone's mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle's SCARLET is a fast-paced adventure that will bring in a new reader of the adventures. Years ago, it did for me, and I've been a mystery-genre lover since.

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