What Makes You Curious Book Blog

Book Review: Insatiable by Meg Cabot (Insatiable #1)

April 25, 2022. Soap opera writer Meena Harper has an interesting gift - or curse, depending on how you look at it – she has visions of how each person is going to die…which really kills the mood during a date. Until she meets the mysterious yet charming Romanian history professor, Lucien Antonescu, with whom she believes she has a viable future because she oddly doesn’t have visions of his death. While Lucien is investigating a string of murders in New York and Meena’s company suddenly wants her to incorporate a vampire storyline into the soap opera, she’s about to find out that the vampire world might exist beyond the television screen.

Book Review: Vampire Seduction: Paranormal Romance by Celia Kyle and Marina Maddix (Real Men of Othercross #1)

April 18, 2022. Othercross University law student, Alena Falkov, just discovered her one true love and fated mate…then she steps into the courtroom and realizes he’s the accused who she is meant to represent during the trial. What’s more is that Luca Ravenna is a member of her family’s enemy clan and he claims he’s accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Will Alena be able to bring out the truth in the courtroom and find a way for their forbidden and controversial relationship to work out?

Book Review: Voyageurs: Gay Romance by Keira Andrews

April 11, 2022. When Simon Cavendish’s new position at Fort Charlotte required him to make a dangerous trek to the Canadian fur-trading outpost, young Christian Smith is the only hope he has to make it to the post before winter arrives and prevents further travel. At first glance, they seemed to have come from vastly different worlds: Simon, a well-off Englishman, and Christian, a working-class half-English and half-Ojibwe man, but spending weeks together traversing the lakes and rivers on a thousand-mile journey will cause any pair to grow closer together. They soon find that the natural elements aren’t the only things they have to battle…they must also resist their increasing temptation for each other.

Book Review: The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel

April 4, 2022. Trained by a mysterious, strict and spiritually gifted woman on everything she needed to know about survival in the forest, Yona never truly understood how her solitary upbringing in the wilderness would serve a larger purpose. Until her mentor passes away and Yona stumbles upon a group of Jewish refugees hiding in the forest, she realized it was all coming to this: she was their only chance at survival. As the group continues to recruit more refugees, to battle the harsh elements of nature and to evade the Nazi officers closing in on them, will Yona be able to save them all…if she really is meant to save them at all?

Book Review: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

March 28, 2022. Young, ambitious Odile Souchet’s life was everything she could dream of: a handsome, intelligent and caring boyfriend and an impactful career at the American Library in Paris. But when WWII starts and the Nazis occupy their beloved city of Paris, everything in her life changes and she is forced to protect all she holds dear to her or lose it to the hands of the enemy. Lonely and itching to leave her boring town, Lily decides to get to know her mysterious, elderly neighbor, one of the few people who piques her curiosity, and they form a transformative friendship.

Book Review: The Abundance Mind-Set: Success Starts Here by Joel Osteen

March 21, 2022. Sick of poverty, lack mind-set and trying to get into a more abundant life? With inspiring anecdotes, compassionate words and wisdom, American pastor Joel Osteen will guide you in adopting an abundant mind-set, daring you to dream big. To believe in yourself, in your worth and have faith that God and the universe will provide whatever you need to make your visions become a reality because you are meant to live your best life.

Book Review: Taste of Midnight: Vampire Gay Romance by Keira Andrews

March 14, 2022. When Stephen Lewis, a tax lawyer, and Xavier Dumont, a worldly young man, first meet at the DMV, sparks immediately fly. Though it has been a while since Stephen has dated, having been heartbroken by his ex, he is excited when the intriguing and mysterious Xavier asks him on a date. Neither had anticipated that the taste of one night together would start something great in both their lives.

Book Review: Lord of the Vampires by Gena Showalter (Royal House of Shadows #1)

March 7. 2022. Jane Parker is a scientist who gets to have a daily intimate look into the paranormal world through experimentation and research on vampires and other creatures. Nicolai the Vampire, once known for his power and virility, has lost his timepiece and been stripped of his memories…and of his clothes when turned into a sex slave for the ladies of Delfina. As their romance blossoms, Nicolai slowly learns that Jane, who tempts him beyond all else, might be the only hope to him regaining his memory and identity while for Jane, saving Nicolai could result in losing the only man who has sated her deepest cravings.

Book Review: Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher Saga #8)

February 28, 2022. The Witcher Geralt of Rivia just wanted to relax and indulge in a little luxurious dining but of course, he can’t enjoy anything in peace. When he arrives at the town of Kerack, bad luck was right at the gates to greet him: he loses his witcher swords and becomes embroiled in the sorcerers’ chapter’s scandal and a potential assassination plot on the king. He needs to retrieve his precious swords back – fast – in order to fight evil and darkness as the season of storms is coming…

Book Review: The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher #7)

February 14, 2022. After traveling through the Tower of Swallows, Ciri finds herself trapped in a seemingly peaceful world of the elves that proves to be more threatening than at first glance. Desperate to escape all those hunting her, she makes use of a newfound ability to travel through space and time and strives to be reunited with Geralt and his company. The war is reaching its peak, the mercenaries have cornered all her friends and Ciri needs Geralt by her side to fight the final battle in this epic conclusion to the saga!