Reviews + Articles

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean

While reviewing the second book in Sarah MacLean's Love By Numbers series, Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord, I'm also finishing the third in the trilogy. I love the overlap of characters, and the changes in relationships and characters in the course of the...

Winners and a Favorite Giveaway

Well! The contest for three copies of Paige Shelton's Thin Ice was a smashing success. I had the largest number of entries for one title that I've ever had. And, Paige is giving away one additional copy. If you didn't win, don't feel bad. I hope you continue to...

What Are You Reading? and Glen Davis’ Favorite Books of 2019

Unless the schedule is pushed off for some reason, we always talk about what we're reading on Thursdays. This Thursday is no exception. However, we'll also round out the lists of favorite books with Glen Davis' selections. I always enjoy Glen's succinct, wry...

Belated Anniversary

Better late than never. On January 6, 2005, I posted my first blog post on the site that would eventually become Lesa's Book Critiques. Fifteen years ago, it was originally called "Nikki's World" after our kitten who had been dumped at the Central Library in...

Lefty Award Nominees

On Monday, January 13, Janet Rudolph's Mystery Fanfare announced the Lefty Award Nominations for 2020. Congratulations to all of the nominees. Here are the nominations, as announced. LEFTY AWARD NOMINATIONS: Left Coast Crime 2020 Left Coast Crime 2020, “Murder’s a...

Dead in Dublin by Catie Murphy

Well, I found a new cozy mystery series to love. Dead in Dublin may be a debut mystery, but Catie Murphy has written science fiction/fantasy as C.E. Murphy, so it's quite polished. It doesn't hurt that it's set in Dublin with actual buildings and monuments....