Just a girl and her books
FIREBORNE | Rosaria Munda (The Aurelian Cycle #1) 10.15.2019 | Penguin Books Rating: 4/5 stars Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone - even the lowborn - a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, … Continue reading Book Review: Fireborne
A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT | Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2) 03.14.2017 (first published 10.20.2016) | Harper Voyager Rating: 4/5 stars The sequel to THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET focuses on Lovelace, who was once the artificial intelligence inhabiting the Wayfarer spaceship. She has awoken in a new body after surviving a total … Continue reading Book Review: A Closed and Common Orbit
THE DIVINES | Ellie Eaton 01.19.2021 | William Morrow Ratingl: 3/5 stars Memor Amici. Remember Friends. Josephine will never forget the motto that belonged to her elite English boarding school, St. John the Divine. She will never stop being a Divine, no matter how hard she tries to put that time behind her. Fluctuating between … Continue reading Book Review: The Divines
GATHERING DARK | Candice Fox (Jessica Sanchez #1) 03.16.2021 | Forge Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. What do they all have in common? They might just be the only hope for one missing girl. Dr. Blair Harbour was once a wealthy, respected pediatric surgeon … Continue reading Book Review: Gathering Dark
HER DARK LIES | J.T. Ellison 03.09.2021 | Mira Books Rating: 4/5 stars The wedding of the year has arrived and a killer appears to be amongst those in attendance. Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. The sprawling villa sitting cliff-top is owned … Continue reading Book Review: Her Dark Lies
March is already flying by and I still haven’t posted my possibility stack!I’ll be honest, this month I wasn’t at all sure what I wanted to read. I’ve got ARCs to review, challenges to complete, and buddy reads calling my name! This stack is full of potentially incredible reads and I’m happy to say I’m … Continue reading March TBR!
WHY DID YOU LIE? | Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 11.24.2013 | Hodder Rating: 4/5 stars A journalist investigating an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their guests have vanished, leaving their home in disarray. Four strangers are trapped on a windswept spike of rock in the … Continue reading Book Review: Why Did You Lie?
DANCING WITH THE OCTOPUS | Debora Harding 09.22.2020 | Bloomsbury Publishing Rating: 4/5 stars DANCING WITH THE OCTOPUS is a memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. In November 1978, Debora Harding was only fourteen. She was abducted at knifepoint from her church parking lot. Debora was thrown into a van, assaulted, … Continue reading Book Review: Dancing with the Octopus
Read:Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle CosimanoRemote Control by Nnedi OkoraforThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold ()Strangers on a Train by Patricia HighsmithAnoka by Shane HawkParable of the Talents by Octavia E. ButlerPrepped by Bethany MangleDancing with the Octopus by Debora Harding ()Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa SigurðardóttirThe Dark Tower by Stephen King ()A … Continue reading February Wrap Up!
MINI REVIEWS: ANOKA by Shane Hawk: Anoka, Minnesota is a small city located just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed “The Halloween Capital of the World” since 1937. Shane Hawk has put together a collection of stories touching many topics that all take place in Anoka. Within this collection you’ll find tales of bone collectors, pagan … Continue reading Mini Reviews: Anoka & Remote Control
