We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Last year, I tried to complete the seasonal reading challenges on Goodreads (though the skeptic in me feels like it’s a way for Amazon to get people to buy more books). This year, I have been checking the categories and using them as a way to work through books I already own but I won’t buy a book to complete the challenge and it’s also fine if I don’t get all the achievements. I am currently in too many book clubs to also let challenges […]
Daughter of Tides by Kit Rocha
3.5 stars Naia is a very young water nymph, born directly from the Dreaming, but she has the memories and experiences of so many who have lived before her who had any connection to the sea. Einar was once a mortal man before he became the immortal pirate lord known as the Kraken, tied to his magical ship and his equally immortal crew. Aleksi is the most charming and beloved of all the gods; he is literally The Lover. After the events in Queen of […]
The Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh by Claudia Gray
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh 3.5 stars Since Mr Jonathan Darcy, son of the esteemed Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Miss Juliet Tilney, daughter of Henry Tilney, have now solved not one, but two murders among their extended acquaintance, word has gotten around, and as a result, Lady Catherine DeBourgh has summoned the young Mr Darcy to come to Rosings Park to help her identify the person who is trying to kill her. He insists that Miss Tinley be invited as well. Both young persons […]
Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Trigger warning: A lynching is described. Well wow. This was 5 stars and I didn’t want to put it down. I don’t want to talk too much about the book because I don’t want to spoil for potential readers. But this was so freaking good. Taking place in Mississippi in the 1920s, we follow two people, newly married Thea Elliot and “carrier” Marah. Both women are in East Cobb, […]
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
Three women who met because they were all at one point married to a serial killer band together to try and stop a potential new killer when women start disappearing around where they live. This book picks up with an unusual premise – what is it like to have been the closest person to a serial killer, and not have it believed that you knew nothing of their crimes? The author does an excellent job of grounding us in the place and time of the […]
Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
It is my personal opinion that if her presence on the curriculum had consisted less of accounts of the bleakness of Irish peasant life at the turn of the century and more farmers’ wives cuckolding their husbands with corpses possessed by the devil, the Irish language would be in rude and glowing health today. TW: gore, rape, necrophilia, profanity, death of children, graphic depictions of cannibalism, alcoholism, unhealthy relationships, animal death, and people having their faces eaten off by dogs After reading The Burial Tide, […]
