Just a girl and her books
ROADWORK | Stephen King as Richard Bachman 05.2016 (first published 03.1981) | Gallery Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Barton Dawes feels like he’s losing everything he’s worked his whole life for. Highway 784 is being extended straight through Bart’s town and will ruin everything he holds dear. The laundry plant where Bart started his career needs … Continue reading Book Review: Roadwork
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES | Agatha Christie 04.30.2019 (First published 10.1920) | Vintage Rating: 4/5 stars Meet Hercule Poirot: A detective and Belgian refugee of the Great War who has settled in England near Styles Court, the sprawling estate of his wealthy, elderly benefactress, Emily Inglethorp. When Emily’s body is found the authorities believe … Continue reading Book Review: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
ASH MOUNTAIN | Helen Fitzgerald05.14.2020 | Orenda BooksRating: 4/5 stars Fran thought she escaped her hometown of Ash Mountain years ago. After her father finds himself ill, she is forced to return to the place she hates and care for him. Fran’s relationship is over and she hates her dead end job in the city, … Continue reading Blog Tour: Ash Mountain
DEATH IN THE FAMILY | Tessa Wegert (Shana Merchant #1) 02.18.2020 | Berkley 5/5 stars Thirteen months ago, Senior Investigator Shana Merchant was abducted by a serial killer. She’s hoping to find a way back to normality and has moved from New York City to a small community known as Thousand Islands in search of … Continue reading Book Review: Death in the Family
THE LONG WALK | Stephen King as Richard Bachman 02.16.2016 (First published July 1979) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Each year one hundred boys under the age of eighteen enter into a walking competition where there can only be one winner. Boys around the country enter to compete despite knowing there will be only … Continue reading Book Review: The Long Walk
WHAT IT SEEMS | Emily Bleeker 03.17.2020 | Lake Union Publishing Rating: 4/5 stars Tara was adopted by her foster mother at the age of eight when her parents decided that they could no longer take care of three children. Now twenty-years-old, she hasn’t managed to see much of the world. Mother is extremely controlling. … Continue reading Book Review: What It Seems
HORRORSTÖR | Grady Hendrix 09.23.2014 | Quirk 5/5 stars Strange things have started happening at the Cleveland, Ohio location of Orsk. Every morning the opening employees arrive to find broken, damaged, or shattered items. Security cameras don’t show anything happening overnight or anyone on the premise. The store manager is starting to panic, as sales … Continue reading Book Review: Horrorstor
RAGE | Stephen King as Richard Bachman 09.06.1977 | Signet Rating: 4/5 stars Charlie Decker has reached his breaking point with authority at his school and at home. Things have gone too far and Charlie has snapped. He has killed one of his teachers and taken the rest of his class hostage. Over the course … Continue reading Book Review: Rage
MY DARK VANESSA | Kate Elizabeth Russell 03.10.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars 2000: Fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye has been accepted to an elite boarding school. While trying to find her place in this new school, Vanessa becomes entranced by her forty-two-year-old English teacher, Jacob Strane. They begin to have an affair. 2017: Allegations around … Continue reading Book Review: My Dark Vanessa
STATION ELEVEN | Emily St. John Mandel 09.09.2014 | Vintage Rating: 4/5 stars Arthur Leander thought it was just like any other night as he walked on stage to perform in King Lear until a heart attack took his life. A young actress, Kirsten Raymonde, looked on as the world around her changed. This was … Continue reading Book Review: Station Eleven
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