Just a girl and her books
LISEY’S STORY | Stephen King 06.28.2016 (first published 10.2006) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Lisey lost her husband Scott after twenty-five years of marriage, which was filled with profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was … Continue reading Book Review: Lisey’s Story
THE WHISPERING DEAD | Darcy Coates (Gravekeeper #1) 05.04.2021 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 4/5 stars Keira is on the run. She has no memory of who she is or where she’s been. All she knows is that she needs to get away from the man chasing her. She finds refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper’s … Continue reading Book Review: The Whispering Dead
THE JIGSAW MAN | Nadine Matheson (Inspector Anjelica Henley #1) 03.16.2021 | Hanover Square Press Rating: 4.5/5 stars Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… DI Anjelica Henley has been tasked with finding a killer who recently left body parts from his victims along the banks of the River Thames in Deptford. Henley can’t help … Continue reading Book Review: The Jigsaw Man
RED RISING | Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga #1) 01.28.2014 | Del Rey Rating: 5/5 stars The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day allow Mars to be a habitable planet. The Reds are making the ultimate … Continue reading Book Review: Red Rising
THE BABYSITTER | Liza Rodman & Jennifer Jordan 03.02.2021 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter - a kind, … Continue reading Book Review: The Babysitter
THE REVELATION | Bentley Little 12.01.2014 | Cemetery Dance Publications Rating: 4/5 stars Divine prophecy. Holy terror. Strange things are happening in the small town of Randall, Arizona. The local minister has vanished and his church has been defiled by blasphemous obscenities scrawled in blood. A crazed woman in her eighties becomes pregnant. Herds of … Continue reading Book Review: The Revelation
THE GIRL WHO DIED | Ragnar Jónasson 05.04.2021 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter … Continue reading Book Review: The Girl Who Died
A SOLITUDE OF WOLVERINES | Alice Henderson (Alex Carter #1) 10.27.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. It seems this small town has a series of secrets … Continue reading Book Review: A Solitude of Wolverines
THE SIREN & THE SPECTER | Jonathan Janz 09.06.2018 | Flame Tree Press Rating: 3.5/5 stars David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, has been invited by an old friend to spend a month in “the most haunted house in Virginia”. He believes the case will be like any other, but the Alexander House … Continue reading Book Review: The Siren & The Specter
FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER | Angeline Boulley03.16.2021 | Henry, Holt & Co.Rating: 5/5 stars As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, … Continue reading Book Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter
