#text-to-speech-enabled

Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan My rating: 3 of 5 stars Thank you, Netgalley, for letting me read this book. Sadly, I nearly quit reading at the first chapter. Nothing against the writer, but I had assumed the book was about women. Fair warning: it is about a family, including the father and son. Each member gets their chapters. I must admit that listening to text-to-speech, it was hard to…

Sisters of the Midnight Sun by Fiona Valpy My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received this copy of Fiona Valpy’s from NetGalley. I feel so blessed to get to read, well, listen to this story using Kindle’s text-to-speech. The story starts with two women getting to know each other. Both in grief. Soon we learn their stories. I don’t want to give too much away because the depth of their lives and loves is…

Poetic Justice: A Rascal Todd Mystery Featuring Brody Thompson by Dan Antion My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m sorry it took so long to get through this. It was the only book I was trying to actually read. I do so much better with audiobooks. I tried to set up the Kindle text-to-speech, but it didn’t bring up the voice I usually choose. I didn’t like the voice that came up, and I didn’t want to fiddle…

The Witch Within by Iva Kenaz My rating: 4 of 5 stars For some reason, this was on the bottom of my currently reading shelf, and I didn’t realize I had read it before. I don’t remember the story, so I’ll finish and add a re-review here. Okay. I finished this last night and found the same feeling about the book. I’m glad I read it again. Stockholm Syndrome. Just looked it up and didn’t want to…

The Samurai’s Octopus by Jonelle Patrick My rating: 5 of 5 stars For a fan of Shogun (Richard Chamberlain) and the newer version, I felt I fell into the female side of the story. Jonelle Patrick tells stories like no one else. She gets deep into history or other sciences to solve mysteries, and leads the reader to feel into Japanese worlds past and present. That is why she is one of my favorite…

Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found this near the bottom of my currently reading shelf. As I started reading book two, I realized I had read book one ages ago. So I decided to quickly get into the third book. These were mysteries like bodies, and searching for answers. But the main characters have psychic abilities. This last book tied up all the loose ends,…

Review: Fire by L.B. Gilbert

Fire by L.B. Gilbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Is it the pandemic or what? I think I would have loved this book before but…

Tanya Eby, narrator, was quite good at the many voices it took to tell the story. I tried just using the text-to-speech and found that dull. Maybe if my eyes were good enough to follow along I would like it more. I would have been able to get deeper into the story. Ms. Eby’s…

Review: A Thief in Time and A Flight in Time by Cidney Swanson

A Thief in Time: A Time Travel Novel by Cidney Swanson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was so excited to get A Flight In Time to review. Cidney Swanson is one of my favorite Young Adult writers. Come to find out she lives in a nearby Oregon town. She’s lucky I don’t have a car! And that I have social anxiety that keeps me from seeking out people I don’t know. Still, her Saving Mars series is my…