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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Disappointing, but probably not its fault

The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

January 15, 2021 by Jenna Leave a Comment

In 1988, 14-year-old Beth is being driven by her aunt to a family willing to take her in. Sure, they’re calling her a “companion” for their daughter, which is kind of weird, but her parents are dead and her aunt is too busy to move her in. So this is her best option. And when they pull into the long drive of a full-on estate called Raven Hall, Beth feels a little hopeful that this might be a permanent solution. Months later, she isn’t so […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Emma Rous

Jenna's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Emma Rous ·
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A relationship flow-chart would have been handy.

The Au Pair by Emma Rous

July 12, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

This was an impulse buy while wandering Walmart waiting for a prescription to be filled by the pharmacy. I’d seen it on a couple lists of people I follow, and I figured, why not? On the night that twins Seraphine and Danny Mayes were born, their mother threw herself off a cliff to her death, the family’s au pair fled, and rumours in the town took root – calling the family home cursed, and speculations about the birth of twins being a bad omen. Fast […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Emma Rous, Fiction, mystery, Suspense, The Au Pair

kella's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Emma Rous, Fiction, mystery, Suspense, The Au Pair ·
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