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The Amaranthine Law

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 An early reader review. Tristan Kelly has an immediate attraction to her new intern Olivia Bryce but has firm rules for herself on such things. Not only is Tristan’s past complicated and duplicitous there’s the age gap to consider… of at least 200 years. Now Tristan has to fight more than her sizzling chemistry with Olivia as they find themselves on the run from unknown assailants intent on bringing Tristan’s long life to an end  – an act of revenge though for what sin she is unsure. This one was a fun romp, I liked the globe trotting, the car chases and the relationships Tristan had with her staff and Olivia. Like if “Highlander” had more lesbians, less decapitation and way better sex scenes. I would have loved to see a little more of Tristan’s past in the story with such history under her belt but the book isn’t lacking for not having it – just me wanting more of the character that’s seen so much. Additionally lengthening the timeline just a smidge, going from two weeks of working t
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Gardener’s Five Year Record Book

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 A simple and effective means of tracking your garden from year to year. Do you want to be one of those gardeners with a beautiful notebook brimming with details on what bloomed when or poetic thoughts on the shifting winter light? Trying to remember what tomato varieties excelled last summer? Or what bulbs you put round the mailbox for a “splash of spring”? This record book is a great place to start. A simple monthly spread with a box for noting each week, whatever details you like as it’s not guided. Some bonus pages in the back for lists on plants to purchase, stores and suppliers to visit, pest problems etc. Each month is adorned with classic flowers but no distractingly so, a minimalist whimsical flourish. This books is great for just about any sort of gardener because it is what you make of it, a blank slate that can be detailed or simple from week to week, month to month and year to year. The flexibility is good because as we all know, no two growing seasons are the same nor is
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Under the Whispering Door

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  A surprisingly cathartic tale of love and tea after death. Wallace Price is unlikeable within the first page, his character is quickly and skillfully set in the “Scrooge” category without anyone needing to say “asshole”, though you are likely to think it. Then Wallace is dead. Wallace is taken from the big lawyer high rises, away from his expensive suits and brown nosing minions to a tea shop in a mountain town in the middle of nowhere. And that’s when the real story begins. Wallace is joined by his firey reaper Mei who’s always ready to fight off an attack, the tea brewing ferryman Hugo, a ghost named Nelson who embodies “cantankerous” with every ounce of his celestial being and ghost dog Apollo. This assortment of beings gathers to help and guide Wallace to the afterlife, whatever form that may take for him – their jobs are solely to be there for him in his path to the “door”. By day Hugo and Mei work in their tea shop while the ghosts chat and terrorize deserving patrons and in th
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