Just a girl and her books
THE RUNNING MAN | Stephen King as Richard Bachman 03.08.2016 (first published 05.01.1982) | Gallery Books Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to a dystopian future where the poor are seen as rodents and not human beings. Their lives are not valued the way those with money are. Ben Richards is one of those poor people. His … Continue reading Book Review: The Running Man
THE LONG WALK | Stephen King as Richard Bachman 02.16.2016 (First published July 1979) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Each year one hundred boys under the age of eighteen enter into a walking competition where there can only be one winner. Boys around the country enter to compete despite knowing there will be only … Continue reading Book Review: The Long Walk
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS | Stephen Graham Jones 05.19.2020 | Gallery/Saga Press Rating: 3/5 stars Four American Indian men took part in a traumatic and disturbing event during their youth, that to this day seems to linger in their minds. Each man has found their own way to deal with the feelings associated with this … Continue reading Book Review: The Only Good Indians
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
What Jess Reads 