Just a girl and her books
I’ve decided I want more nostalgia in my reading life and I’ve been adding in some Fear Street books to my monthly TBRs! I’ll be sharing mini reviews throughout the year, so make sure to tune for all the old school fun! SILENT NIGHT by R.L. Stine: Beautiful, cold Reva thinks she can have whatever … Continue reading Mini Reviews: Fear Street Edition
HOUSE OF HOLLOW | Krystal Sutherland 04.06.2021 | Penguin Teen Rating: 5/5 stars Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their necks. … Continue reading Book Review: House of Hollow
THE EX-HUSBAND | Karen Hamilton 01.18.2022 | Graydon House Rating: 4/5 stars Charlotte has an unsavory past, but she’s on the straight and narrow these days. She was so young then - she married the wrong man, falling for Sam’s sweet-talking charm and charisma, and got caught up in his con artist games. Now Sam … Continue reading Book Review: The Ex-Husband
FIND ME | Alafair Burke 01.11.2022 | Harper Rating: 3/5 stars She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary … Continue reading Book Review: Find Me
ONE OF THE GOOD ONES | Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite 01.05.2021 | Inkyard Press Rating: 4/5 stars When teen activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized … Continue reading Book Review: One of the Good Ones
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
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