Just a girl and her books
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
BEHIND THE RED DOOR | Megan Collins 08.04.2020 | Atria Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Have you ever had a strange feeling that something happened in your past, but you can’t remember the event? Fern Douglas has learned news of a missing woman whose face she can’t help but find familiar, however, she has no recollection … Continue reading Book Review: Behind the Red Door
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
HIDDEN BODIES | Caroline Kepnes (YOU #2) 01.14.2016 | Atria Rating: 4/5 stars Joe Goldberg has hidden a body or two in his day. To be specific, he has buried four bodies, each of them someone who was standing in the way of his quest for true love. Joe has been burned in the love … Continue reading Book Review: Hidden Bodies
THE LAST | Hanna Jameson 04.09.2019 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Jon has left his family back home in America in order to attend a conference in an isolated hotel in Switzerland. We never consider that we won’t be able to go home and try to fix a situation we left behind, but this … Continue reading Book Review: The Last
THE MANSION | Ezekiel Boone 12.04.2018 | Atria/Emily Bestler Books Rating: 3/5 stars Shawn Eagle and Billy Stafford spent two years living in a dilapidated cabin outside of the desolate, empty Eagle Mansion, subsisting on cheap beer and an enthusiasm to create something new. The two programmers worked hand in hand to create the revolutionary … Continue reading Book Review: The Mansion
THEN SHE WAS GONE | Lisa Jewell 04.17.2018 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Ellie Mack was fifteen-years-old when she disappeared. She was her mother’s golden child. She had an endless future of possibilities ahead of her. Ellie simply vanished without a trace. Ten years have passed since that fateful day, but her mother, Laurel, … Continue reading Book Review: Then She Was Gone
THE WIDOW OF WALL STREET | Randy Susan Meyers 04.11.2017 (paperback release 06.26.2018) | Atria Books Rating: 3/5 stars Phoebe meets Jake when she is fifteen years old. Her parents wildly disapprove of the relationship because Jake is older than Phoebe, they want Phoebe to make a life of her own before marrying, and at … Continue reading Book Review: The Widow of Wall Street
YOU (You #1)| Caroline Kepnes 09.25.2014 | Atria/Emily Bestler Books Rating: 5/5 stars Joe Goldberg is living an average New York life, working at a book story in the East Village tending to customers who pretend to be well versed in the classics, when in reality they're just there for the latest Dan Brown or … Continue reading Book Review: You
THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO | Taylor Jenkins Reid 06.13.2017 | Atria Books Rating: 5/5 stars Evelyn Hugo is one of the most famous actresses of our generation. She has lived a life of glamour and scandal that has been highlighted in tabloids throughout the years, most notably including her seven marriages. Evelyn recently … Continue reading Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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