Review: Cold as Hell by Kelley Armstrong

February 18, 2025February 23, 2025 Ashley LP2 Comments

Title: Cold as Hell
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: Haven’s Rock
Trigger Warning: Emotional abuse, cheating (not the MC’s), torture, murder, giving birth in dangerous situations.

About this Book: Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they’ve settled into their life here. A resident gets drugged, and then another goes missing and is found dead, and it’s time to figure out not only who committed these crimes but if the screening process they have in place is secure enough.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and honestly? It scared the shit out of me.

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Review: Finding Mr. Write by Kelley Armstrong

February 17, 2025February 23, 2025 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: Finding Mr. Write
Author: Kelley Armstrong
About this Book: This is a romance novel by Kelley Armstrong! KELLEY ARMSTRONG! Raise the wicked alarms. Daphne, the MFC, is a writer who struggles to get her book published under her own name. Her sci-fi, adventure novel.

Sounds familiar? It should be, because this happens a lot. So what does she do? She uses a pseudonym and then hires someone to be Zane Remington, author and outdoors person.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and honestly? I cannot wait for Writing Mr. Wrong.

Also, please note if you are Canadian, and reading this, Kelley Armstrong is Canadian, and the link above will lead you to your local independent bookstore to purchase. I gain nothing from putting that link there aside from the knowledge that I am hopefully helping people support their local businesses.

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Book List 2023 · Reviews

Someone is Always Watching

April 2, 2023 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: Someone is Always Watching
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Source: Netgalley. I received a free copy of this book for an honest review.
Genre: YA Thriller
Explicit? No
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, Murder
Summary: Blythe and her friends—Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya—have always been a tight friend group, attending a local high school and falling in and out of love with each other. But an act of violence has caused a rift between Blythe and Tucker . . . and unexpected bursts of aggression and disturbing nightmares have started to become more frequent in their lives.

The strange happenings culminate in a shocking event at school: Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their deceased principal, with no memory of what happened.

Cracks in their friendship, as well as in their own memories, start appearing, threatening to expose long-forgotten secrets which could change the group’s lives forever. How can Blythe and her friends trust each other when they can’t even trust their own memories?

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Book List 2022 · Reviews

Review: The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: The Deepest of Secrets
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: Rockton
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Source: Netgalley
Trigger Warnings: Violence, buried alive.
Summary: It’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand. Tucked away in the Yukon wilderness, the community survives—and thrives—because the residents’ many secrets stay just that—secret.

But what happens when these secrets start to come out? Overnight, no one is safe. It’s not a question of if your secret will come out—but when.

Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, need to find the culprit while protecting those who have been thrust into the spotlight. For a place built on privacy and new beginnings, Rockton isn’t handling these revelations very well. People are turning on one another, and when one of the loudest complainers turns up barely alive, it’s clear that their trickster is actually a murderer.

The threat of exposure is reaching its breaking point, and no one knows what’s going to happen next.

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Book List 2021

Release Week Part 2: A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong

February 11, 2021 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: A Stranger in Town

Author: Kelley Armstrong

Series: Rockton (Book 6)

Release Date: February 9, 2021

Genre: Mystery, horror

My Thoughts: This book. This book. I can’t believe it ended like that but at the same time I really can’t tell you how it ended because I don’t believe in spoilers.

This book was filled with tension, and anticipation that gripped me as I flipped through the digital pages and pretty much left finger imprints on my tablets. I would say this was the most mysterious book of all of the Rockton series, as several different storylines entwined.

When they stumbled across the tourist in the forest I really found myself agreeing with Dalton’s opinion about whether or not people should even be allowed in the Yukon wild. The town and its working are explored even ore in this book, who gets in, who gets out.

We also found out how hostiles were created, and it was intense (apparently that’s the watchword).

Thank you to Kelley Armstrong and her publisher for giving me a free copy of this book.