Just a girl and her books
THE GOD GAME | Danny Tobey 01.07.2020 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars You are invited! Come inside and play with G.O.D. Bring your friends! It’s fun! But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.™ Lose, you die! With these words, Charlie and his friends decide to enter the G.O.D. Game, … Continue reading Book Review: The God Game
NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY | Will Carver 11.14.2019 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Nine people meet one night on the Chelsea Bridge. They’re complete strangers, but something has brought them together on this day. Someone has instructed them that today is the day they will jump to their death. Someone has left them a … Continue reading Book Review: Nothing Important Happened Today
THE FORGOTTEN GIRL | David Bell 12.31.2019 (first published 10.07.2014) | Berkley Rating: 4/5 stars Jason Danver’s isn’t close with his sister Hayden. Over the years she has distanced herself from Jason and their family as she spiraled out of control. Now Jason finds his former addict sister at his doorstep with her teenage daughter. … Continue reading Book Review: The Forgotten Girl
THE GUNSLINGER | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1) 05.03.2016 (first published 06.01.1982) | Scribner Rating: 3/5 stars Roland Deschain hails from a Gilead and a world that has been left on the brink of destruction. The last of his kind, Roland is known as a gunslinger. His one mission is to track the Man … Continue reading Book Review: The Gunslinger
A DARK MATTER | Doug Johnstone 01.23.2020 | Orenda Books Rating: 4.5/ 5 stars The Skelfs are a well-known family in Edinburgh. They run a successful, long-established funeral home, as well as a private investigation service. When Jim, the patriarch of the Skelf family passes away, the family businesses are left to his wife, Dorothy, … Continue reading Blog Tour: A Dark Matter
LOCK EVERY DOOR | Riley Sager 07.02.2019 | Dutton Rating: 5/5 stars The rules are simple. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No talking to the other residents, unless they speak to you first. Jules Larsen’s new job may come with a strict set of rules, but the rewards are high. She … Continue reading Book Review: Lock Every Door
THE GREAT PRETENDER | Susannah Cahalan 11.05.2019 | Grand Central Publishing Rating: 4/5 stars Have you ever heard of David Rosenhan’s experiment where he and seven other people went undercover in mental hospitals in order to record what really happened in these places? The premise was that the pseudo-patients, or sane people, could essentially lie … Continue reading Book Review: The Great Pretender
NINTH HOUSE | Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern #1) 10.08.2019 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars Yale’s freshman class just earned it’s most unlikeliest of members in the form of Galaxy “Alex” Stern. Hailing from Los Angeles, Alex was raised by a hippie mom who didn’t understand the strange things happening to her. Alex ultimately dropped … Continue reading Book Review: Ninth House
ELEVATION | Stephen King 10.30.2018 | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Scott Carey looks like an average man on the outside. What people can’t see is that he has a few odd things happening to him recently, starting with steadily losing weight. Scott hasn’t changed his lifestyle or his eating habits. He looks exactly the same … Continue reading Book Review: Elevation
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON | David Grann 04.18.2017 | Vintage Rating: 4/5 stars The Osage Nation in Oklahoma struck it rich in the 1920s when oil was discovered beneath their land. The people of this nation were each given a portion of the wealth and soon the land was filled with chauffeured automobiles, mansions, … Continue reading Book Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
