Just a girl and her books
BATH HAUS | P.J. Vernon 06.15.2021 | Doubleday Books Rating: 5/5 stars Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they’ve made a perfect life together. With everything … Continue reading Book Review: Bath Haus
HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD | Robert Kolker 04.07.2020 | Doubleday Books Rating: 5/5 stars The Galvin’s, a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. On the outside Don and Mimi Galvin appear to be living the American dream. Residing in … Continue reading Book Review: Hidden Valley Road
MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER | Oyinkan Braithwaite 07.17.2017 | Doubleday Rating: 5/5 stars Korede’s sister has a problem. She has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Each time Ayoola has a reason for the murder and each time she expects Korede to help her clean up her problems. Ayoola is the favorite … Continue reading Book Review: My Sister, the Serial Killer
BAD MAN | Dathan Auerbach 08.07.2018 | Doubleday Books Rating: 3/5 stars It was a regular day that turned into every family’s worst nightmare. Ben was in charge of watching his three-year-old brother, Eric. The boys went to the local grocery store to pick up items for their parents. Ben looked away for a few … Continue reading Book Review: Bad Man
THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US | Edgar Cantero 07.31.2018 | Doubleday Rating: 4/5 stars Fisherman’s Wharf is home to private eyes A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. The door to their rundown office shows both names, but when you look inside there is only one desk, one chair, and one androgynous P.I. … Continue reading Book Review: This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us
MEDDLING KIDS | Edgar Cantero Doubleday Books | 07.11.2017 Rating: 4/5 stars The year is 1990 and thirteen years have passed since the Blyton Summer Detective Club solved their greatest case, the mystery of the Sleepy Lake Monster. Things have never been the same for the kid detectives, as tragedy and brokenness has overtaken their … Continue reading Book Review: Meddling Kids
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