Xepherus Reads

        Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,    Welcome to the 2022 Xepherus Reads Reading Challenge !  It is my turn to share my goals for this year's Reading Challenge. Last year I spent the majority of my time researching material for my debut novel . This year, I want to return to reading and reviewing. I will be updating my choices often.    Rules:   ·            Choose a book for each category. No need to go in numeric order; take each challenge in any order that you wish. ·            Once read, add the book to your list. You may also read books, not in a category. There is a place below to add them. A running total is displayed at the beginning of the reading challenge.  ·           Share your challenge on social media and let your friends know just ho...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!     I look back on the books that I have read and realize I have three excellent books that I would recommend to everyone. Though my year was mainly in research books, I did manage to get a few novels in.   Here are my Top 3 favorite books read in 2021 (not all books were released in 2021) Any reviews will be linked in the names: 3)  Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner-  take a recovering alcoholic with a penchant for finding missing people and you have the beginnings of a fantastic series. Gardner returns with a deviation from her D.D. Warren series to introduce Frankie Elkin. Elkin is doing her part to help find missing people as she travels with her meager possessions city to city. I found the mystery excellent and the protagonist to be genuine and likable. She had her faults and always admitted to them. The story of the missing girl was heart-breaking. Hillary Huber narrated the audiobook with an intensity...

   Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    January  is always a great month of reading for me. That clean slate feeling is very addictive. I love  choosing  books that captured my attention but sat  in my TBR pile . January is a chance to give those waiting books a read .  I loved  Sarah Morgan's   book  The  Christmas  Sisters and could not wait to read another of her holiday offerings .     A Wedding in December i s written by Sarah Morga n. It is published by HQN Books and is her 201 9 Christmas novel of which she releases yearl y.  In this story of holiday romance and second chances,  we are int roduced to Rosie White. Rosie is getting married to a man she recently met and she has invited her family to Co lorado  for her Christmas we dding. Her mother, Maggie,  has made Christmas at their family cottage a yearly  even t .   What Rosie does not know is that her par...