Just a girl and her books
MINDHUNTER | John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker 10.24.2017 | Gallery Books (first published in 1995) Rating: 4/5 stars Special Agent John Douglas helped to revolutionize the FBI and how criminal investigations are conducted by becoming an expert in criminal profiling. Douglas made his life’s work out of meeting with, learning about, and understanding serial … Continue reading Book Review: Mindhunter
GERALD’S GAME | Stephen King 02.16.2016 (first published May 1992) | Gallery Books Rating: 3/5 stars Jessie and Gerald Burlingame have set off to their secluded summer home for a romantic getaway. When Gerald tells Jessie he wants to play one of his new sex games, she immediately becomes weary. Not wanting to start a … Continue reading Book Review: Gerald’s Game
FIRESTARTER | Stephen King 12.11.2018 (first published 09.29.1980) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars When Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were college students they both needed a way to make some extra cash. They volunteered to participate in an experiment for a drug. Unbeknownst to them, this experiment wasn’t being run by a professor, but … Continue reading Book Review: Firestarter
BROTHER | Ania Ahlborn 09.29.2015 | Gallery Books Rating: 4/5 stars Deep in the Appalachian woods is a farmhouse full of secrets. The Morrows reside here. They keep to themselves and are hardly seen in the neighboring town as they live a largely self-sufficient life on their property. The highway is full of hitchhikers, so … Continue reading Book Review: Brother
LYING IN WAIT | Liz Nugent 06.12.2018 | Gallery/Scout Press Rating: 4/5 stars Lydia Fitzsimons is living the high life or so it seems from the outside perspective. She is married to a well respected judge and together they have a doting son, Laurence. The family lives on a sprawling estate in Ireland that was … Continue reading Book Review: Lying in Wait
11/22/63 | Stephen King 07.24.2012 | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars The United States remembers November 22, 1963 as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The country was rocked to the core. In present day 2011, diner owner Al Templeton has built an obsession around the Kennedy assassination and what would have happened … Continue reading Book Review: 11/22/63
UNDER THE DOME | Stephen King 06.11.2013 (originally published 11.10.2009) | Gallery Books Rating: 4/5 stars The day is like every other day. The people of Chester’s Mill, Maine are going about their usual routines and enjoying the beautiful fall weather. Suddenly their world comes closing in around them, quite literally. Out of nowhere an … Continue reading Book Review: Under the Dome
Read: WONDER WOMAN, VOL. 1: THE LIES by Greg Rucka DOCTOR STRANGE: THE OATH by Brian K. Vaughan DEADLY CLASS, VOL. 2: KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE by Rick Remender ALL THE MISSING GIRLS by Megan Miranda THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood THE PARTY by Robyn Harding THE WEIGHT OF LIES by Emily Carpenter … Continue reading June Wrap Up
THE PARTY | Robyn Harding Gallery Books | 06.06.2017 Rating: 3/5 stars The Party is a domestic drama revolving around an incident that occurred the night of a Sweet Sixteen party. The book is told through the prospective of four narrators central to the happenings of the party and drama that ensues afterwards. Taglined as … Continue reading Book Review: The Party
