Winning Back His Duchess Featured
Alcoholism, Blog Tour, Book Review, Historical, Rachel's Random Resources, Romance, Second Chance, Series

Winning Back His Duchess (The Dollar Duchesses #3) by Amanda McCabe

An invitation to Venice…To save their marriage!Suggesting divorce to her estranged husband, Jamie, Duke of Byson, takes all of Rose Wilkins’s courage. Years of distance and heartbreak have taken a toll—she needs a new start. But Jamie won’t hear of divorce, because of the scandal alone. His counteroffer is a trip to Venice… Might discovering Venice’s… Continue reading Winning Back His Duchess (The Dollar Duchesses #3) by Amanda McCabe

Winter Light Featured
Alcoholism, Blog Tour, Book Review, Depression, Drug Abuse, Giveaway, Rachel's Random Resources, Rape, Suspense, YA Fiction

Winter Light by Martha Engber

Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War.Though a smart, beautiful kid, she’s a motherless girl raised by an uneducated, alcoholic father within an… Continue reading Winter Light by Martha Engber

The Art of Breaking Things
Abuse, Alcoholism, Book Review, Excerpt, NetGalley, YA Fiction

The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson

Weekends are for partying with friends while trying to survive the mindnumbingness that is high school. The countdown to graduation is on, and Skye has her sights set on escaping to art school and not looking back. But her party-first-ask-questions-later lifestyle starts to crumble when her mom rekindles her romance with the man who betrayed Skye's… Continue reading The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson

Chris Farley Show
Alcoholism, Book Review, Memoirs, Nonfiction

The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley, Jr.

I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday.  I first posted this review in November 2009. While fans knew Chris as the sweaty, swaggering Motivational Speaker and the hyperkinetic Chippendales stripper, his family knew him… Continue reading The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley, Jr.

TeenagerWithAChameleonSoul
Alcoholism, Blog Tour, Book Review, YA Bound Book Tours, YA Fiction

The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy

I am delighted to kick off my first blog tour with YA Bound Book Tours and introduce The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy. Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction Release Date: September 28, 2017 ABOUT THE BOOK Meet Sadie MacPhearson. She’s seventeen and lives in a ritzy, artsy beach town called Mariposa Beach, California.… Continue reading The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy

Drinkwater featured
Action & Adventure, Alcoholism, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Drinkwater: A Sobering Tale About A Medieval Knight by Otto Scamfer

“It (Alcohol) brings out the devil in some men and takes their soul away,” Emery answered staunchly.  “I’ve seen many a good man ravaged by the drink.” Winston is a disgraceful alcoholic (or drinkwater) and presumed murderer of his father, Lord Tabor.  Cyrus Everett is Lord Tabor’s bailiff who falsely accuses Winston of murdering his… Continue reading Drinkwater: A Sobering Tale About A Medieval Knight by Otto Scamfer