Overall, this is the kind of fantasy you can sink into without emotional whiplash or relentless grimness. The adventure unfolds steadily, the characters are enjoyable company, and the world hints at more stories still waiting to be told.
About the book: The Regression Strain Genre: Medical Thriller Publisher: Normal Range Press Publication Date: May 26, 2025 Scroll down for Giveaway Dr. Peter Palma joins the medical team of the Paradise to treat passengers for minor ailments as the cruise ship sails across the Atlantic. But he soon discovers that something foul is […]
A delusional prison patient warns Dr. Brian Heiser, Marriage and Family Therapist, of enormous impending disaster. Dr. Heiser and his best friend, a lauded Forensic Psychologist, find themselves entangled in a 72-hour deadly race to stop an AI bill being fast-tracked through the Texas state legislature.
Under Vixen’s Mere is one of those novels that quietly gets under your skin and then refuses to leave.
From the opening pages, the prose immediately stood out to me. It’s spare without ever feeling sparse—clean, confident, and quietly assured. Dialogue and description are held in careful balance, each doing its work without calling attention to itself. Nothing strains for effect, and that sense of restraint builds trust early on, inviting the reader to settle in and follow where the story leads.
What makes this book especially satisfying is its sensory richness. The attention to detail is so precise you can practically smell the bread cooling on the racks, the sharpness of cheese, the damp stone after rain. It is comfort reading with substance: sunshine and laughter paired with the everyday complications life throws at us, and the quiet resilience required to meet them.
yeah, sea urchin WAS wicked gross! Tasted like what the inside of a musty old barn smells like…blech!
Oddly, I always include sea urchin in my pancake batter. I’m allergic to apples.
1. yeech.
2. I like to put nothing on my crackers.
3. I crave water at night.
4. I always add frozen berries (and sometimes chocolate chips) to my pancake batter.
5. When I think of comfort food, I think of tapioca pudding or grilled cheese sandwiches but yrs sounds better.
sea urchin? ewww.
cheesy salty snacks… have you tried putting cheese and strawberry jam on your crackers? i love that combination!
michele sent me. :)