Just a girl and her books
FIERCE KINGDOM | Gin Phillips 07.25.2017 | Viking Books Rating: 4/5 stars Joan and her son, Lincoln, are spending the late afternoon at the zoo, just as they have many times before. As closing time approaches, Joan gathers up Lincoln and his things and starts to head for the exit. Once she gets to the … Continue reading Book Review: Fierce Kingdom
GIRL IN SNOW | Danya Kukafka 08.01.2017 | Simon & Schuster Rating: 3/5 stars Popular high school student Lucinda Hayes has been found murdered in a playground with her neck snapped and buried in the snow. Who has committed this terrible crime? Enter in the novel's three narrators: Cameron, the boy who loved Lucinda too … Continue reading Book Review: Girl In Snow
YOU’LL NEVER KNOW, DEAR | Hallie Ephron 06.06.2017 | William Morrow Rating: 3/5 stars Forty years ago the Sorrel family was struck by tragedy when the youngest daughter, Janey, went missing. Lissie, the oldest daughter, was seven-years-old on the day it happened. She was outside with Janey playing with their porcelain dolls in the front … Continue reading Book Review: You’ll Never Know, Dear
BEST DAY EVER | Kaira Rouda 09.19.2017 | Graydon House (Harlequin) Rating: 4/5 stars Paul Strom lives a picture perfect life: a high-profile advertising executive job, a gorgeous wife, two darling boys, a huge house in the best neighborhood suburbia can offer, and a vacation cottage in an exclusive lakeside area. On the outside looking … Continue reading Book Review: Best Day Ever
THE SCARLET LETTER | Nathaniel Hawthorne 11.05.2009 (originally published 03.16.1850) | Penguin Books Rating: 3/5 stars THE SCARLET LETTER is a classic tale about Hester Prynne, a woman sentenced to wear a red letter A on her clothes for committing the sin of adultery. The novel opens with Hester, standing upon the scaffold with her … Continue reading Book Review: The Scarlet Letter
CHEW, VOL. 1: TASTER’S CHOICE | John Layman 12.08.2009 | Image Comics Rating: 5/5 stars Tony Chu is just an average cop working a stake out with his partner on the Philly PD, except Tony has a secret few know about. What is this strange secret he keeps under wraps? Tony is cibopathic, which means … Continue reading Book Review: Chew, Vol. 1: Taster’s Choice
EMMA IN THE NIGHT | Wendy Walker St. Martin’s Press | 08.08.2017 Rating: 5/5 stars Three years ago, in the middle of the night, the Tanner sisters disappeared. The car belonging to Emma, age seventeen, was found abandoned at the beach with all of her personal effects left behind. People would have assumed she walked … Continue reading Book Review: Emma in the Night
MIDNIGHT SUN | Jo Nesbø Vintage Crime/Black Lizard | 01.24.2017 Rating: 5/5 stars Ulf finds himself in the remote town of Kasund were he is hiding out from his former boss, Oslo’s most notorious drug kingpin, The Fisherman. Ulf had one job, be a fixer. He was supposed to answer the phone whenever The Fisherman … Continue reading Book Review: Midnight Sun
Read: WONDER WOMAN VOL. 2: YEAR ONE by Greg Rucka MEDDLING KIDS by Edgar Cantero BLACK SCIENCE, VOL. 2: WELCOME, NOWHERE by Rick Remender BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by B.A. Paris IN A DARK, DARK WOOD by Ruth Ware RAT QUEENS, VOL. 1: SASS & SORCERY by Kurtis Wiebe WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë NOTHING STAY … Continue reading July Wrap Up
What Jess Reads 