Just a girl and her books
CERTAIN DARK THINGS | Silvia Moreno-Garcia 09.07.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec … Continue reading Book Review: Certain Dark Things
THE CHRISTMAS MURDER GAME | Alexandra Benedict 10.04.2022 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 4/5 stars The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for--deeds to the house itself--but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her … Continue reading Book Review: The Christmas Murder Game
THE PRISONER | B.A. Paris 11.01.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the … Continue reading Book Review: The Prisoner
THE GUEST HOUSE | Robin Morgan-Bentley09.13.2022 | Poisoned Pen PressRating: 4/5 stars With a few weeks to go until their first baby is due, Jamie and Victoria head off for a weekend break in a small countryside guesthouse. The next morning, Jamie and Victoria awake to find the guesthouse has been emptied. Both their mobile … Continue reading Book Review: The Guest House
HOW TO SURVIVE EVERYTHING | Ewan Morrison11.15.2022 | Harper PerennialRating: 4/5 stars Children of divorce, Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad believes there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming and is determined to keep them alive. He wants to take them to his prepper hideaway where they will be safe from … Continue reading Book Review: How to Survive Everything
DEAD & GONDOLA | Ann Claire(Christie Bookshop #1)11.01.2022 | BantamRating: 4/5 stars Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She’s recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family’s historic bookshop with her elder sister, Meg, and their friendly bookshop cat, Agatha. Perched in a Swiss-style hamlet accessible by ski gondola … Continue reading Book Review: Dead & Gondola
LEECH | Hiron Ennes09.27.2022 | TordotcomRating: 3/5 stars In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking … Continue reading Book Review: Leech
How are we almost a week into December? I’m slacking so hard on all things holiday…no tree up, very few gifts bought. I’m also slacking on actually finishing a book. My goal is to have Dead and Gondola completed tonight. I’ve really enjoyed this cozy mystery! It’s got so many fun nods to Agatha Christie … Continue reading December Possibilities
THE LOST VILLAGE | Camilla Sten03.23.2021 | Minotaur BooksRating: 4.5/5 stars Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Village
Read:The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett 4⭐Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky 3.5⭐They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe 3⭐(🎧)The Hacienda by Isabel Canas 3.5⭐Dead Flip by Sara Farizan 4⭐Fairy Tale by Stephen King 3⭐Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV 4⭐The Godmother by Barbie Latzu Nadeau 3.5⭐(🎧)It Rides A Pale Horse … Continue reading November Wrap Up
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