One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I ended up giving this one 4.5 stars and rounding it up to 5 stars. The only reason why I didn’t think it was a 5 star favorite read for me was that 1) I doubt I would re-read this again and 2) the omnipotent narrator in between chapters started to grate towards the end. I just wanted to find out what happened or was going to end. […]
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Once More Upon a Time: An Enchanting Romantic Fairy Tale by Roshani Chokshi
Hot and Sour Suspects by Vivien Chien
Gilded by Marissa Meyer
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
The Kaiju Preservation Society-5 stars I don’t even know what to say except this was pitch perfect. It reminded me in a good way of “Old Man’s War” and I cheered through the whole book. I loved everyone. I am so sad this is a standalone so we don’t get to follow Jamie and his friends he meets in the Kaiju Preservation Society (KPS). “The Kaiju Preservation Society” begins with Jamie Gray getting fired. Jamie lives in New York and doesn’t know how he will […]
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
Poppy, the two-year-old granddaughter of the Haywoods, is diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, the whole community rallies around them to raise money for her treatment. But not all is as it seems in this little town, and when someone turns up dead on the night of the Fairway Players’ dress rehearsal, the truth must be uncovered. I picked up this book because someone here recommended it (thank you!) and because it’s been a while since I read a good epistolary novel. Certainly I’ve never […]
Face Off by David Baldacci
This is the second collaboration audiobook I’ve borrowed and read from my library. I got into it because of my buddy Michael Connelly. If you read my previous review that I just posted, you’ll know that maybe he’s not my buddy after all, but Harry Bosch is. Conveniently, Harry is in this book! The wording on Goodreads calls this “an unprecedented collaboration”, which sounds very grand. I didn’t really get it until I looked at all the authors involved and listened to the intro. Apparently […]
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
For as often as I read mystery thrillers like this, I so rarely enjoy them. And there are so many reasons I shouldn’t have enjoyed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, but I still did, in spite of all of them. The main character, Jess, is an overachiever preparing to go back to her 10 year college reunion at Duquette, a college which is “just a step below the Ivy League.” In college she was part of a golden group called the East House Seven […]
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
I couldn’t put down this book after starting it. I burned through it in one and a half days, because sleep, it it was engaging all the way through and the ending was insane. Loved the story, as it’s something that resonates with me (gentrification in NYC has gotten so bad and so many people have been displaced/ out priced because of it). I also loved the slight sci-fi elements of this book, a turn I was not expecting as it starts out as a […]
