Just a girl and her books
NOTHING STAYS BURIED | P.J. Tracy G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 08.01.2017 Rating: 4/5 stars The Monkeewrench crew is back at it in the 8th installment of this series! Centered around Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, who have been sent to a crime scene in a heavily wooded park, where the scenario feels … Continue reading Book Review: Nothing Stays Buried
WUTHERING HEIGHTS | Emily Brontë Penguin Deluxe Edition | 08.25.2009 (original published in December 1847) Rating: 4/5 stars Wuthering Heights is a tumultuous ride through the life of Heathcliff, the Earnshaw family, and the Linton family. The story begins in the present (year 1801) with a new tenant, Mr. Lockwood, staying at Thrushcross Grange. He … Continue reading Book Review: Wuthering Heights
RAT QUEENS, VOL. 1: SASS & SORCERY | Kurtis J. Wiebe Image Comics | 03.26.2014 Rating: 4/5 stars Meet the Rat Queens: Hannah the Rockability Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. Together they form a group of maidens-for-hire who are looking for a … Continue reading Book Review: Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
IN A DARK, DARK WOOD | Ruth Ware Harvill Secker | 07.30.2015 Rating: 4/5 stars Leonora “Nora” Shaw is a writer living a quiet life in London. One day she receives an invitation to a hen night for her childhood best friend, Clare. The thing is, she hasn’t seen Clare for 10 years. Back when … Continue reading Book Review: In a Dark, Dark Wood
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS | B.A. Paris St. Martin’s Press | 08.09.2016 Rating: 5/5 stars Meet Jack and Grace Angel, they’re the perfect couple. Jack has good looks and wealth. Grace has poise and sophistication. They’re the picture of perfection as an inseparable newlywed couple. Just how perfect are things when no one is looking? Why … Continue reading Book Review: Behind Closed Doors
BLACK SCIENCE, VOL. 2: WELCOME, NOWHERE | Rick Remender Image Comics | 01.28.2015 Rating: 3/5 stars The Anarchist League of Scientists are back at it again! This time, they’ve lost their leader, Grant McKay, to their time traveling invention, the Pillar. We find the gang in yet another precarious situation in a random world where … Continue reading Book Review: Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere
MEDDLING KIDS | Edgar Cantero Doubleday Books | 07.11.2017 Rating: 4/5 stars The year is 1990 and thirteen years have passed since the Blyton Summer Detective Club solved their greatest case, the mystery of the Sleepy Lake Monster. Things have never been the same for the kid detectives, as tragedy and brokenness has overtaken their … Continue reading Book Review: Meddling Kids
WONDER WOMAN, VOL. 2: YEAR ONE | Greg Rucka DC Comics | 05.08.2017 Rating: 5/5 stars This second volume of Greg Rucka's run of Wonder Woman brings us to her home, Themyscira, where Diana has grown bored with the island and yearns to know what is beyond. At the same time Steve Trevor is getting … Continue reading Book Review: Wonder Woman, Vol. 2: Year One
Read: WONDER WOMAN, VOL. 1: THE LIES by Greg Rucka DOCTOR STRANGE: THE OATH by Brian K. Vaughan DEADLY CLASS, VOL. 2: KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE by Rick Remender ALL THE MISSING GIRLS by Megan Miranda THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood THE PARTY by Robyn Harding THE WEIGHT OF LIES by Emily Carpenter … Continue reading June Wrap Up
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