Just a girl and her books
HER PERFECT LIFE | Hank Phillippi Ryan 09.14.2021 | Forge Books Rating: 3/5 stars Everyone knows the beloved television reporter Lily Atwood. She has fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created #PerfectLily. What they don’t know is that she has a life-changing secret. Her own anonymous source who … Continue reading Book Review: Her Perfect Life
SEED | Ania Ahlborn 07.17.2021 | 47North Rating: 4/5 stars Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was just a boy with nothing but the clothes on his back and something horrific snapping at his heels. As he watched the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was … Continue reading Book Review: Seed
RAZORBLADE TEARS | S.A. Cosby 07.06.2021 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for justice. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not as much as a speeding ticket in all that time. When the cops show up at his door … Continue reading Book Review: Razorblade Tears
NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH | Cassandra Khaw 10.19.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundation resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It’s the perfect wedding venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends. A … Continue reading Book Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET | Catriona Ward 09.28.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4.5/5 stars! At the end of Needless Street, on the edge of the wild Washington woods, sits a boarded up house where a family of three resides. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside after what she did last time. A … Continue reading Book Review: The Last House on Needless Street
My favorite month of the year has officially arrived and I'm thrilled to share my monstrous list of hopeful reads! I actually ended up making two stacks for this month because I couldn't stop putting things in my maybe piles. The first stack is all of the physical reads I have my eye on and … Continue reading October TBR!
Read: The Summoning by J.P. Smith 4 FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven 4.5() The Forgotten Island by David Sodergren 5 Seed by Ania Ahlborn 4 The Ninja Betrayed by Tori Eldridge 4 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 5 Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King 4 Survive the Night by Riley Sager 3.5 The City … Continue reading September Wrap Up
ACE OF SPADES | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 06.01.2021 | Feiwel & Friends Rating: 5/5 stars Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo have been selected to be part of the elite Niveus Private Academy’s senior class prefects. Not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian. … Continue reading Book Review: Ace of Spades
A DEADLY INSIDE SCOOP by Abby Collette: Recent MBA grad Bronwyn “Win” Crewse has decided to go back to her hometown and take over her family’s ice cream shop. Chagrin Falls, Ohio is a small town where everyone knows Crewse Creamery. Win is excited to restore the shop to its former glory using her grandmother’s … Continue reading Mini Reviews: A Deadly Inside Scoop & It Takes Two to Mango
KILL HILL CARNAGE | Tim Meyer 07.15.2018 | Sinister Grin Press Rating: 4.5/5 stars In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Legends range from a family of inbred cannibals being responsible, to a masked psychopath with a butcher’s knife, … Continue reading Book Review: Kill Hill Carnage
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