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Read: Recursion by Blake Crouch Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin Death Deserved by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger (🎧) Ghosts of the Missing by Kathleen Donohoe The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurdardottir The Waste Lands by Stephen King Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough Devil’s Knot by Mara … Continue reading February Wrap Up!
THE OTHER MRS. | Mary Kubica 02.18.2020 | Park Row Rating: 4/5 stars Sadie and Will Foust have just relocated their family from busy Chicago to a small island town in Maine. This new town brings new challenges, starting with getting to know the niece they’re now in charge of caring for due to an … Continue reading Book Review: The Other Mrs.
THE KILL CLUB | Wendy Heard 12.17.2019 | MIRA Books Rating: 5/5 stars Jazz will stop at nothing to make sure her brother, Joaquin has everything he needs. Unfortunately, their foster mother, Carol, does not see eye to eye with Jazz. Now that Jazz has moved out of their home, Carol’s level of religious fanaticism … Continue reading Book Review: The Kill Club
BEAST | Matt Wesolowski (Six Stories #4) 02.06.2020 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Journalist Scott King has returned with another installment of his podcast, Six Stories. This time around he has chosen to focus on a chilling case involving a young woman who was found frozen to death in 2018. During an intense winter … Continue reading Book Tour: Beast
DEVIL’S KNOT | Mara Leveritt 10.21.2003 (first published 2002) | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars After eighteen years in prison, in 2011 one of the greatest miscarriages of justice was righted when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released from prison. In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil’s Knot
THE GIFTED SCHOOL | Bruce Holsinger 07.02.2019 | Riverhead Rating: 4/5 stars The town of Crystal, Colorado is slated to have a new school for gifted students opening in the near future. In an area filled with private institutions for the gifted, this school offers something unique. This school is a public school where potential … Continue reading Book Review: The Gifted School
THE SUN DOWN MOTEL | Simone St. James 02.18.2020 | Berkley Rating: 4.5/5 stars Fell, New York is the home to the Sun Down Motel, a rundown roadside motel frequented by a seedy group of clientele. Over the years a series of young women have been murdered. One of those women was Viv Delaney, former … Continue reading Book Review: The Sun Down Motel
THE WASTE LANDS | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3) 05.03.2016 (first published August 1991) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Warning: Potential series spoilers ahead Several months have passed since the events of THE DRAWING OF THE THREE. Roland has trained his Ka-tet members, Eddie and Susannah, to be gunslingers in their own right. Each … Continue reading Book Review: The Waste Lands
DEAD TO HER | Sarah Pinborough 02.11.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars Marcie Maddox has worked hard to live the life of luxury currently surrounding her in Savannah. Thanks to an illicit affair that eventually became a marriage and a fresh start to her current life, Marcie has everything she’s ever wanted. The only … Continue reading Book Review: Dead to Her
RECURSION | Blake Crouch 06.11.2019 | Crown Publishing Rating: 4.5/5 stars A devastating new phenomenon has started popping up all over the world. Labelled by the media as False Memory Syndrome, it is a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. The memories feel too real to … Continue reading Book Review: Recursion
