Just a girl and her books
THIS IS NOT THE JESS SHOW | Anna Carey (This Is Not the Jess Show #1) 02.02.2021 | Quirk Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars Jess Flynn is just like any other teenager trying to get through her junior year without drama…but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, … Continue reading Book Review: This Is Not the Jess Show
A KILLER BY DESIGN | Ann Wolbert Burgess 12.07.2021 | Hachette Books Rating: 4/5 stars Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide on the rise, the FBI created a specialized team – the … Continue reading Book Review: A Killer by Design
Are you participating in #ReadChristie2022? I’m loving the challenge so far and the fun of having a Christie in my TBR stack every month. Below are mini reviews for my January and February selections! THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT: Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is looking for a bit of adventure in London, but she stumbles … Continue reading Agatha Christie Mini Reviews: The Man in the Brown Suit & A Deadly Affair
THE PARIS APARTMENT | Lucy Foley 02.22.2022 | William Morrow Rating: 4.5/5 stars Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say … Continue reading Book Review: The Paris Apartment
THE CLUB | Ellery Lloyd 03.01.2022 | Harper Rating: 3.5/5 stars The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members’ clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular … Continue reading Book Review: The Club
THE RESTING PLACE | Camilla Sten 03.29.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Eleanor has prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you. When she walks in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the … Continue reading Book Review: The Resting Place
THE NIGHT SHIFT | Alex Finlay 03.01.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars New Year’s Eve 1999: At a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Only one survives. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later: In the same … Continue reading Book Review: The Night Shift
FAKE | Erica Katz 02.22.22 | Harper Rating: 4/5 stars Emma Caan is a fake. She’s a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn’t a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. When art collector, Leonard Sobetsky, unexpectedly appears with an invitation, Emma sees a … Continue reading Book Review: Fake
THE RAVENOUS DEAD | Darcy Coates (Gravekeeper #2) 03.15.2022 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 3.5/5 stars Keira has been hired on as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper where she lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on – and only Keira … Continue reading Book Review: The Ravenous Dead
ROAD OF BONES | Christopher Golden 01.25.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1,200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route … Continue reading Book Review: Road of Bones
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