Just a girl and her books
SOMEBODY’S HOME | Kaira Rouda 01.18.0222 | Thomas & Mercer Rating: 3/5 stars Julie Jones has finally decided it’s time to leave her marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over in a new house in Oceanside. It comes with a bit of the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have … Continue reading Book Review: Somebody’s Home
DEAD SILENCE | S.A. Barnes 02.08.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - made obsolete - when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire convinces her team to investigate. What they find … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Silence
RECKLESS GIRLS | Rachel Hawkins 01.04.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel after a … Continue reading Book Review: Reckless Girls
Hello January! I'm a little behind in posting my TBR photo, but with the holidays I forgot to order a few last minute reads I wanted to put in my stack for this year. This year I have a few reading goals in mind, such as reading the entire Dune series and one Agatha Christie … Continue reading January TBR!
THE WINTER PEOPLE | Jennifer McMahon 02.11.2014 | Anchor Rating: 4/5 stars West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious of that is of Sara Harrison Shea who was found dead in 1908 in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of … Continue reading Book Review: The Winter People
Read: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse 4Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica () 4Anna and the Apocalypse by Katharine Turner 4Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King 4One by One by Ruth Ware () 4The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon 4Devolution by Max Brooks () 4.5Silent Night by R.L. Stine 4The Easton Falls Massacre by Holly Rae Garcia & … Continue reading December Wrap Up
A FLICKER IN THE DARK | Stacy Willingham 01.11.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of … Continue reading Book Review: A Flicker in the Dark
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS | Alice Feeney 09.07.2021 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter, Adam Wright, has lived with face blindness … Continue reading Book Review: Rock Paper Scissors
DEVOLUTION | Max Brooks 06.16.2020 | Del Rey Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined…until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing - … Continue reading Book Review: Devolution
ONE BY ONE | Ruth Ware 09.08.2020 | Scout Press Rating: 4/5 stars Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of … Continue reading Book Review: One by One
What Jess Reads 