Well, well, well…what a surprise! Ellesfena and I got each other in this gift exchange! At first I was completely confused because it’s been 84 years of me being in my house (or at school teaching) and I don’t know what the outside world is like these days. I am so excited for all three books but particularly Daughter of Smoke & Bone…my son who never reads despite my avid harping on him (that totally works, right?) scuttled away with The Mysterious Benedict Society (don’t […]
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Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake Book #4) by Rachel Caine
I am a sucker for a series with a strong, capable woman. Add the fact that she’s a mom on a mission? I’m alway sold. I’m easy…always have been. To catch you up, the Stillhouse Lake series is about a woman, Gina Royal, who comes home to find out that her husband was a serial killer and that he had been killing people under her nose for years (in a sound proof hobby room in the garage). People did not believe that she wasn’t aiding […]
Such a Perfect Wife by Kate White
Such a Perfect Wife is about the abduction and murder of Shannon Blaine…and then it isn’t…at all. True Crime writer Bailey Weggins comes to Lake George to write about the unfolding mystery of the disappearance and possible death of Shannon Blaine, 34, gorgeous, wife, mother, and physically fit runner. She disappears while running, which is why I don’t run. I kid, I kid. I don’t run because I ran so much in high school sports my knees are shot. And no, […]
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GET OUT OF THERE!!!
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Jules Larsen just needs a break. On the same day, she loses her job and comes home to her boyfriend having sex with another woman on the couch. Up to her eyeballs in college loan debt and nowhere to live, she’s elated when she sees an ad on Craigslist offering $4000 a month to stay in the Bartholomew, a very fancy NYC apartment building that caters to the rich and famous as an apartment sitter. When she’s shown the space she’s also told the rules: […]
All Girls Summer Camp? Sounds like a bad idea to me
The Last Time I Lied: A Novel by Riley Sager
15 years ago, Emma went to summer camp for the very first time. Being late to arrive, the 13 year old was placed with three girls who were older and were friends already. There was the queen bee, Vivian, bitchy when she wanted to be, always adventurous and determined. Natalie and Allison played the role of the queen’s attendents, doing whatever Vivian told them to do. Emma? Emma just idolized Vivian. Having been at the camp only two weeks and falling in line with the […]