Just a girl and her books
BEAST | Matt Wesolowski (Six Stories #4) 02.06.2020 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Journalist Scott King has returned with another installment of his podcast, Six Stories. This time around he has chosen to focus on a chilling case involving a young woman who was found frozen to death in 2018. During an intense winter … Continue reading Book Tour: Beast
DEVIL’S KNOT | Mara Leveritt 10.21.2003 (first published 2002) | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars After eighteen years in prison, in 2011 one of the greatest miscarriages of justice was righted when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released from prison. In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil’s Knot
THE GIFTED SCHOOL | Bruce Holsinger 07.02.2019 | Riverhead Rating: 4/5 stars The town of Crystal, Colorado is slated to have a new school for gifted students opening in the near future. In an area filled with private institutions for the gifted, this school offers something unique. This school is a public school where potential … Continue reading Book Review: The Gifted School
THE SUN DOWN MOTEL | Simone St. James 02.18.2020 | Berkley Rating: 4.5/5 stars Fell, New York is the home to the Sun Down Motel, a rundown roadside motel frequented by a seedy group of clientele. Over the years a series of young women have been murdered. One of those women was Viv Delaney, former … Continue reading Book Review: The Sun Down Motel
THE WASTE LANDS | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3) 05.03.2016 (first published August 1991) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Warning: Potential series spoilers ahead Several months have passed since the events of THE DRAWING OF THE THREE. Roland has trained his Ka-tet members, Eddie and Susannah, to be gunslingers in their own right. Each … Continue reading Book Review: The Waste Lands
DEAD TO HER | Sarah Pinborough 02.11.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars Marcie Maddox has worked hard to live the life of luxury currently surrounding her in Savannah. Thanks to an illicit affair that eventually became a marriage and a fresh start to her current life, Marcie has everything she’s ever wanted. The only … Continue reading Book Review: Dead to Her
RECURSION | Blake Crouch 06.11.2019 | Crown Publishing Rating: 4.5/5 stars A devastating new phenomenon has started popping up all over the world. Labelled by the media as False Memory Syndrome, it is a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. The memories feel too real to … Continue reading Book Review: Recursion
THE ABSOLUTION | Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Children’s House #3) 02.11.2020 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Social media has taken over as a source of spreading news throughout the world. Now Icealandic police are finding it as a source for discovering a crime has occurred. Videos of a terrified young teenager are being spread across Snapchat, … Continue reading Book Review: The Absolution
GHOSTS OF THE MISSING | Kathleen Donohoe 02.11.2020 | HMH Books Rating: 3/5 stars Culleton, New York is the home of writers, artists, and unsolved mysteries. After years of avoiding her hometown, Adair has been forced to return after being unable to make it as a successful artist in Brooklyn. She moves back into Moye … Continue reading Book Review: Ghosts of the Missing
FOUL IS FAIR | Hannah Capin 02.18.2020 | Wednesday Books Rating: 4/5 stars Elle and her best friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer refer to themselves as The Coven. They are an untouchable group of friends who hold the level of power others their age can only dream of having. On the night of Elle’s sweet … Continue reading Book Review: Foul is Fair
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