Just a girl and her books
SURVIVOR SONG | Paul Tremblay 07.07.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 4.5/5 stars In a matter of weeks Massachusetts finds itself overrun by a deadly rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. Unlike regular rabies, this virus has an accelerated incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven … Continue reading Book Review: Survivor Song
I’m not going to lie to you all...I struggled a lot deciding what to put in my to maybe read pile for September. I’m still feeling some summery thrillers, but I’m also itching for more dystopian reads. Basically I wanted to read everything and this is what I came up with! I’m definitely … Continue reading September TBR!
JUST MERCY | Bryan Stevenson 08.18.2015 | Spiegel & Grau Rating: 5/5 stars Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal … Continue reading Book Review: Just Mercy
THE FIFTH SEASON | N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth #1) 08.04.2015 | Orbit Rating: 5/5 stars This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun is masquerading as an ordinary teacher in a quiet community when she comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered … Continue reading Book Review: The Fifth Season
CHRISTINE | Stephen King02.23.2016 (first published 04.1983) | Gallery BooksRating: 4/5 stars It was love at first sight for Arnie Cunningham the day he spotted the dilapidated 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury for sale on the side of the road. The cantankerous owner has dubbed the car “Christine” and is willing to part with … Continue reading Book Review: Christine
THE MOTHER CODE | Carole Stivers08.25.2020 | BerkleyRating: 4/5 stars The year is 2049 and a deadly non-viral agent intended for biowarfare is spreading out of control. Scientists are scrambling to create a solution, but as more and more people become sick it seems a cure is impossible. These scientists begin working on a way … Continue reading Blog Tour/Book Review: The Mother Code
BEHIND THE RED DOOR | Megan Collins 08.04.2020 | Atria Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Have you ever had a strange feeling that something happened in your past, but you can’t remember the event? Fern Douglas has learned news of a missing woman whose face she can’t help but find familiar, however, she has no recollection … Continue reading Book Review: Behind the Red Door
WE ARE ALL THE SAME IN THE DARK | Julia Haeberlin 08.11.2020 | Ballantine Books Rating: 4/5 stars An abandoned girl found on the side of the road in a circle of dandelions brings to surface a Texas town’s cold case. It has been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint … Continue reading Book Review: We Are All the Same in the Dark
HURRY HOME | Roz Nay 07.07.2020 | Crooked Lane Books Rating: 3/5 stars Alexandra Van Ness has everything going for her. She lives in a Colorado resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains where she shares a designer loft with her boyfriend, Chase. Alex has made it professionally as well and is working in … Continue reading Book Review: Hurry Home
THE SECOND MOTHER | Jenny Milchman 08.18.2020 | Sourcebooks Rating: 4/5 stars Julie Weathers has been stuck in a life she never thought she would be leading and is in desperate need of a new beginning. When she finds an ad for an opportunity to be a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse on a remote … Continue reading Book Review: The Second Mother
