Just a girl and her books
ONLY IF YOU’RE LUCKY | Stacy Willingham 01.16.2024 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always … Continue reading Book Review: Only If You’re Lucky
WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAW | Melissa Adelman 06.20.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses… When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law … Continue reading Book Review: What the Neighbors Saw
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL | Rose Wilding 06.13.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars All of us knew him. One of us killed him... Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man's severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women - the wife, the teenager, the … Continue reading Book Review: Speak of the Devil
BLIND SPOTS | Thomas Mullen 04.04.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 3/5 stars Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way … Continue reading Book Review: Blind Spots
OUTSIDE | Ragnar Jónasson 06.28.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating … Continue reading Book Review: Outside
FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN | Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #3) 01.31.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing bloodstains for various unexpected reasons―but none quite like this. When Finlay and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a luxury car … Continue reading Book Review: Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS | Stacy Willingham 01.10.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads … Continue reading Book Review: All the Dangerous Things
THE LOST VILLAGE | Camilla Sten03.23.2021 | Minotaur BooksRating: 4.5/5 stars Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Village
THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK | Jennifer Hillier 07.19.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what … Continue reading Book Review: Things We Do In the Dark
THE FAVOR | Nora Murphy 05.31.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don’t—ever—find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don’t—ever—discuss their problems and find common ground. They don’t—ever—acknowledge to each other that … Continue reading Book Review: The Favor
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