After their mother’s death twelve years ago, the Carlisle family unraveled. One by one, all but one of the four siblings left their Nantucket home and never returned. All seem to blame their father for their mother’s death, but nobody will talk about that tragic day. Their father’s failing health and financial concerns finally bring the Carlisle siblings back home. Continue reading “Book Review: The Things We Knew by Catherine West”
Think A Dog’s Purpose (W. Bruce Cameron) only with a cat … kind of. Continue reading “Book Review: The Astonishing Thing by Sandi Ward”
Ali Land’s Good Me Bad Me seemed to pop up everywhere I turned, so I was excited to win a copy from the publisher. I couldn’t wait to see if it was going to be as good as everyone said, but it didn’t live up to the hype, in my opinion. Continue reading “Book Review: Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land”
While my preferred genre is romance to read, I do branch out occasionally and read a wide variety of genres and lately I’ve been reading a ton of suspense. So I figured what would be better than a suspense written by a romance writer? Under the name Victoria Dahl she writes funny romances that I generally love. She decided to branch out and didn’t want to have readers get confused when they got something darker so chose a different pen name for these. Continue reading “Book Review: Half Past by Victoria Helen Stone”
Having only read two of Agatha Christie’s books, I’m far from being an expert on her books or personal life. It came as a surprise to me that she disappeared for several days in 1926. That fact alone led me to request A Talent for Murder from NetGalley. Andrew Wilson takes Christie’s odd disappearance in 1926 and weaves a story around this still unsolved mystery. Continue reading “Book Review: A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson”
MatchUp is the follow-up to 2014’s FaceOff and teams up a female thriller writer with a male thriller writer. One of each writer’s main characters will pair up for a bit of mystery solving. Continue reading “Book Review: MatchUp Anthology”
I’m getting older and my memory isn’t what it used to be. I’m finding it harder and harder to keep track of the characters in books. You Will Pay had so many characters that my head was often spinning with the effort to keep track of who was who and what their story was. Continue reading “Book Review: You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson”
How does a book earn a 3-star rating? For me, it’s a book I enjoyed reading but one that doesn’t make me FEEL and is not one I rush to read again. Val Emmich’s The Reminders fits the criteria here for a 3-star read. Continue reading “Book Review: The Reminders by Val Emmich”
What begins as a normal Tuesday becomes a day that sixteen-year-old Kai will remember for the rest of her life. All it takes is a suicide note from her older sister, Jen. Through her pain, Kai searches for reasons why Jen would do this. Kai is heartbroken and furious, and soon she’s in a vicious downward spiral. Continue reading “Book Review: Just a Normal Tuesday by Kim Turrisi”
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