<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rose Auburn]]></title><description><![CDATA[RoseAuburn.com]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/reviews</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:51:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.roseauburn.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The End]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Adam Cosco Rating: **** In an effort to reset their relationship, thirty-four-year-old AI developer Eli and his girlfriend, Selene, decide to spend some time outside of Los Angeles at a remote cabin, but barely a few hours into their break, Eli finds Selene dead in haunting circumstances.  Broken by grief, seeking answers, and immersing himself in the AI program he and Selene created, Eli discovers that Selene was involved with a shadowy cult tied to her past, one that promises life after...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69feea1857c1b4d98769217e</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 08:08:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_1e6b85e1d20e42748e8b51749935d89c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_324,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Collioure Coincidence (The Glennison Darkisle Cases Book 6)]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Mark N. Drake Rating: ***** The sixth installment *  in Drake’s Glennison Darkisle series begins in Spring 1925, and Jack and Josine’s relationship is strained after events in the Grainger Case. Josine briefly returns to America to visit family, and Jack is invited to join a university archaeological dig on Ben Cattrick Hill back on Darkisle in July.  While waiting, he decides to investigate a niggling connection between a painting in Charles Deverby’s art collection and the southern...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-collioure-coincidence-the-glennison-darkisle-cases-book-6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d8d78431c98b8990c705f5</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:40:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_ecc8076c4fdb415c9728df74205bf84d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Napoleon of Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Phil Smart Rating: **** In April 1815, former Royal Navy Commander Stephen Cowen chooses to start a new life in India with his wife, Elspeth, and their three children. When a powerful storm hits their boat, The Cumberland, the Cowen children—sixteen-year-old Nathaniel, fourteen-year-old Andrew, and twelve-year-old Beatrice—are swept overboard, believed to have drowned. However, safely inside The Cumberland’s longboat, the children wash ashore on the East African coast, where a young Zulu...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-napoleon-of-africa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b02387709b661fe632fdd0</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:04:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_277f0d00349d45d5bdc700ddea4b105f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_333,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Chalstrey Rating: *** Heart  follows the adventures of Hernando Bustamante, a sixteenth-century surgeon. Apprenticed at sixteen to the renowned Doctor Bartolo in Seville, he is forced to flee to Italy by the Spanish Inquisition, where he becomes a professor of medicine at Bologna University. But when Hernando falls in love with Euphemia, a nun, he is expelled from Bologna and takes up a position as an assistant surgeon in Padua. Yet fate conspires again, and Bustamante finds...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/heart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699737daaab309115cb47386</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Three Star]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:46:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_614c33e814574a58b77118dba02b98b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[There Was a Garden Once]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Nino Gugunishvili Rating: **** There Was a Garden Once  is a concise collection of twenty-four autobiographical musings and essays, some just a couple of pages long. Interwoven with humorous reflections on everyday life are deeper meditations on grief and aging. Gugunishvili’s latest compilation *  is a little book of delights, leaving the reader smiling despite the plaintive tone of several narratives. Gugunishvili writes with a natural, chatty intimacy that never feels forced. Her words...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/there-was-a-garden-once</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6986190a7004b379055205e0</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:45:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_30f271fb203b42a08bf4a7d4a072e5b5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Winding Road (Stone Shed Series #2) ]]></title><description><![CDATA[by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** The Winding Road  continues the Maclean Brothers' time-traveling saga from the first installment, The Patriots * . Despite the entreaties of his fiancée, Abigail Ward, Noah rides out to enlist in the Continental Army, ready for war in the late eighteenth century, yet armed with a secret cache of modern weaponry. Jake stays behind with the Wards, helping however he can while growing inseparable from their younger daughter, Rachel, Abby’s sister. But, ‘ best-laid...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-winding-road-stone-shed-series-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69734bde4c5d7ca6b9ba31d0</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:47:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_491355bd79d84cf39750597b98842fae~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_333,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pietà ]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Wizbowski Rating: ***** Set in early eighteenth-century Venice, Poinsettia Girl  unfolds the story of Agata della Pietà, who, at age ten, was placed by her dying Nonna , Guilelma, at the Ospedale de la Pietà , an orphanage that placed emphasis on nurturing musical talent and housed its own prestigious and mysterious conservatoire, the Figlie del Coro , for whom Vivaldi was a teacher and composer. Agata is supremely gifted, not only as a soprano but also as a copyist, composer, and...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/poinsettia-girl-the-story-of-agata-della-piet%C3%A0</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695aac76b5397a67af48aeef</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:35:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_412dbf0ed2794239ab3b97fcd17a92fb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_324,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Defectives (Creekside Chronicles 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Jim Bates Rating: **** Science fiction/dystopian mash-up The Defectives  is set in the 27 th  century. Cockroach-esque creatures, the Tracliodytes conquered Earth in the 22 nd  Century, and humans were driven underground to live in cities deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the next five hundred years, they segregated into the “ Rich and Powerful ” and the “ Defectives ”, and life for the latter is brutal under the diktats of the Supreme Commander, Reginald Botta. When eleven-year-old...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-defectives-creekside-chronicles-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693830460b27bc7cafc67fdc</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:28:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_cf25dbd1483846978c702f18e3a3aa24~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_324,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Love You Take]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Robert Wilson Rating: **** Told in four parts over the course of the 1970s, The Love You Take  is a late coming-of-age novel focusing primarily on Andy Watson, from small-town Strasburg in Virginia as he matures from college student to married father. Surrounded by a select group of eclectic friends, all of whom have their vulnerabilities and moments of self-reckoning, Andy navigates the decade of Nixon, Vietnam, and socio-political unrest while wrestling with the responsibilities of...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-love-you-take</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6925795c164262f22a66417f</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:44:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_9456afc6695b4257b8fb2dddb810d5c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_324,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Study at University]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Lagnard Benz Rating: **** Don’t Study at University is a self-help book with a difference, offering much more than the title suggests, covering extensive, often esoteric ground. Benz essentially lays out a manifesto, backed by personal experience and thorough research, that scrutinizes traditional educational methods and, consequently, expected career/life trajectories. He rigorously questions and, in many cases, debunks prescribed belief systems, urging the reader to do likewise, offering...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/don-t-study-at-university</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69145c7e744f3eeb16211566</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:14:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_e6645ffb8a004011a86c610a94bfc6df~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_313,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Brother]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Adam Cosco Rating: **** Twelve-year-old Leslie Adams feels something is wrong with her, inside, but her dad insists she’s just sleepwalking. But she isn’t sleepwalking when Leslie slashes Tommy Spence to death at his own birthday party, although she cannot remember the attack. Six years later, Leslie tries to make a new beginning, enrolling at college to study investigative journalism, although Tommy’s murder haunts her.  When she starts to experience disturbing incidents and blackouts,...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/little-brother</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6901ee1515073ecb94329179</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:08:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_b17110bfc9f64948929732e549ddc3a6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_323,h_522,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath Beauford Grove]]></title><description><![CDATA[by E. Denise Billups Rating: ***** When Evangeline “Eva” Beauford was sent away at the age of ten by her mother without explanation from the family's olive plantation in Alabama, Beauford Grove, to live with her cousin in Boston, she felt abandoned and confused. Eighteen years later, Eva is a successful hematologist, studying the vagaries of human blood, and her own is yielding more questions than science can answer. When she receives a mysterious posthumous letter from her sister, Solange,...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/beneath-beauford-grove</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f502c5a6f2484f3c992ea1</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:34:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_61c1619be2d74280afdb69a912584f6a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PopeLeo.ai and The God You Trained]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Julio Fernandez Rating: **** Beginning in 2012 but rapidly taking the reader up to the present day, PopeLeo.ai and The God You Trained  delivers an uncomfortable sermon on the rise of AI, chiefly through the lens of Gabriel Menas, an AI engineer who had studied to become a priest but left the seminary shortly before ordination. The novel is also inspired by the cautionary remarks concerning artificial intelligence made by Pope Leo XIV, which were included in a Vatican press packet...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/popeleo-ai-and-the-god-you-trained</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68e4f438ff64b90438036fbe</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:34:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_b6eeeeb239264e33a39ad45f3696a77e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_314,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unholy Silence: A True Account of a Haunted Idaho Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Doug Owen Rating: **** In 2007, after several challenging months, Doug Owen, his wife Claudia, and their young daughters, Beth and Allison, moved to an ordinary, 1950s-style white ranch house in Nampa, Idaho, hopeful the relocation would signal a fresh start for the family. It does herald a new beginning, but not the one Doug was envisaging. The Unholy Silence  is his disturbing chronicle of exactly what occurred within that house, the manifestations, malignancy,  and demonic possessions...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-unholy-silence-a-true-account-of-a-haunted-idaho-home</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68da426ee3cbf48a9870e28a</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:30:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_7e35f7f96fa94fbbb2db4e9a81017af0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_376,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the Gavel]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Stephen M. Murphy Rating: **** When Judge Ferdinand “Ferd” Pitt realizes the disheveled defendant standing in front of him is the father who abandoned Ferd and his twin sister, Claire, over thirty years ago, he immediately recuses himself from the case.  Dwight Pitt is accused of murder, and the victim is Patrick Brady, founder and Chief Technology Officer of a software development company. Brady also happened to be Ferd’s son, Josh’s boss. When evidence not only places Dwight at the scene...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/beneath-the-gavel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b986ec98886589b9facf61</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:13:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_50772c7171004bac8f4f47df281653de~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_336,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Female Hypnotist: Stories from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edited by Donald K. Hartman Rating: **** In this absorbing collection, Hartman has gathered together twelve short stories and two novelettes whose primary theme and characters are female hypnotists and/or mesmerists. The tales move between genres but broadly encompass thriller, horror, and mystery, all with elements of the supernatural or the unexplained, and are often driven by revenge or passion. Having read two of Hartman’s previous compilations * , which are variations on the theme of...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-female-hypnotist-stories-from-the-victorian-and-edwardian-eras</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b04652a23eb120d11d9b73</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:49:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_6c7ffd48fc3c46d398fe39fbdc2c14d4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_333,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Time Traveling Healer]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Jim Bates Rating: **** When time-traveling healer Torak is sent to the realm of Anon to treat the victims of a plague, he hopes this task will help him overcome the profound crisis of confidence he is experiencing after failing to stem a pandemic in the 21st Century during his previous assignment. What and who he finds in Anon begin to set him on the path to redemption, but when he is called upon to heal the brutal, psychopathic despot King Zorandon, Torak finds himself now facing a crisis...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/the-time-traveling-healer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a2dd4c81e6ee2fae59bf21</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:37:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_4f6638b88a314dbc82078a146e2952bf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_324,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flight KA1530: The Complete Trilogy]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Emily Leung Rating: **** When Krone Airways Flight KA1530 from Copenhagen lands at Heathrow with all passengers and cabin crew dead, the finger of suspicion begins to point at flight attendant, Beatriz Sarmento. But why would such a dedicated member of the cabin crew commit such an atrocity, and what does the sigil written on the cockpit door mean?... Rewind six months. Beatriz can’t wait to take to the skies again and make her mother in Faro proud after being made redundant during Covid,...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/flight-ka1530-the-complete-trilogy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68948ac2979ca91c7c3daf2b</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Star]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:34:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_ef28b790a7b34a5297a97d393e6d0629~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_313,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[91-Day Sanction]]></title><description><![CDATA[by George Veck Rating: ***** Veck produces another blistering look at those who have fallen far down through the cracks in society and the broken wretchedness of the system that has failed them. Centred around the Morywelon homeless hostel in North Wales, 91-Day Sanction  follows a group of tragicomic figures as they stumble through days filled with futility, fatality, and desperation. 91-Day Sanction  is a Veck tour de force . Longer than his previous novels * , it rarely lets up as he...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/91-day-sanction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688642fde2fb1aad706d02ee</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:54:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_49b2947825a740a0b16e857430b9be9a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of Ashes and Blood (Shattered Empire - Book One)]]></title><description><![CDATA[by P. C. Darkcliff Rating: ***** Living with his parents, Baard and Diara, in the peaceful village of New Thorstorm, eighteen-year-old Derrik Thon is tired of being treated like a child and dreams of becoming a warrior. When he has a chance to prove himself, together with friends Glen and Broose, at the village’s perilous coming-of-age task, known as the “Passage”, he grabs it despite his parents' fears. But the danger posed by the Passage pales into insignificance as the Darkside rises once...]]></description><link>https://www.roseauburn.com/post/of-ashes-and-blood-shattered-empire-book-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686ba9d2f059c4d584da1593</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><category><![CDATA[Five Star]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:56:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47f37_c7cdcbe6f5da484185a5c625341f7b76~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_272,h_425,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rose Auburn</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>