By: Mariah Brown WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? This is our first WWW post of 2022 and I am super excited to be the one writing it!... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Read in 2021
By: Cait Marie Hello! It's that time... Below is my list of top 10 books of the year, which was extremely hard to narrow down. So, some are actually series, otherwise it would just be the same few authors on the list. I'm also not including any re-reads because I read a lot of old... Continue Reading →
Manuela’s Review of “The Hallowmas Train” by Gloria Pearson-Vasey
By: Manuela Soares “Afterall, it was midnight marking the bridge between the twenty-second and twenty-third days in October, twenty-four hours before the train would take on passengers, twenty-four hours until she would board it and be carried off to an alien place to face the enemy.” That is a quote from the second paragraph of... Continue Reading →
Friday Firsts: The Codex by Douglas Preston
By: Manuella Soares Hey all and welcome back to another Friday here at Functionally Fictional! This week I wanted to continue with a Friday Firsts post, as I'm digging it. For those who don’t know, Friday Firsts was created by Tenacious Reader and is used to spotlight the first few sentences/paragraphs of your current read... Continue Reading →
TBR Tuesday: December 2021
By: Mariah Brown All of these books are on my list to be read. Some I will read sooner than others. Grimm: Daughter of a Curse by J. R. White is an ARC that I received, and I cannot wait to read it. Curse of the Fallen by H. C. Newell is an ARC that... Continue Reading →
WWW Wednesday: December 8, 2021
By: Mariah Brown WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? What are you currently reading? Hallowed Trail by Alyssa Lynn Grimm: Daughter of a Curse by JR White The... Continue Reading →
Leah’s ARC Review of “A History of Wild Places” by Shea Ernshaw
By: Leah Originally posted on Leah's Books. A History of Wild Places Author: Shea ErnshawGenre: MysteryPublication Date: December 7, 2021Publisher: Atria Books Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. CONTENT WARNING: infidelity, death, drug use, suicide, mention of death of a parent,... Continue Reading →
Mariah’s Review of “Sparks and Marks” by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape
By: Mariah Brown Sparks and Marks by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape is about a murder that is committed with a fingerprint left behind. Ambrose and Amy believe they have found the murderer really quickly until there are many other murders that start showing up from cold cases that are similar to this one. The... Continue Reading →
Leah’s Review of “Someone We Know” by Shari Lapena
By: Leah Originally posted on Leah's Books. Someone We Know Author: Shari LapenaGenre: Mystery/ThrillerPublication Date: July 30, 2019Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books CONTENT WARNING: violence, blood, murder, gore, alcohol abuse, mention of abortion, infidelity ★★★★★ Plot summary Maybe you don’t know your neighbors as well as you thought you did… “This is a very difficult letter... Continue Reading →
Magic & Mystery: A Limited Edition Urban Fantasy Mystery Anthology
Author: Melissa Erin Jackson, Celia Roman, Christopher D. Schmitz, Cindy Carroll, D. Gabrielle Jensen, Katherine Tomlinson, Killian Wolf, Kiesha Thomas, Willem Killian, Melissa Gunn, Amelie DegarmoGet it here! Come for the magic. Stay for the mystery. Ten exclusive, never-before-published stories of murder, mystery, and mayhem, wrapped in fantastical realms where private detectives, police consultants, and... Continue Reading →