Just a girl and her books
THE FORGOTTEN GIRL | David Bell 12.31.2019 (first published 10.07.2014) | Berkley Rating: 4/5 stars Jason Danver’s isn’t close with his sister Hayden. Over the years she has distanced herself from Jason and their family as she spiraled out of control. Now Jason finds his former addict sister at his doorstep with her teenage daughter. … Continue reading Book Review: The Forgotten Girl
NINTH HOUSE | Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern #1) 10.08.2019 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars Yale’s freshman class just earned it’s most unlikeliest of members in the form of Galaxy “Alex” Stern. Hailing from Los Angeles, Alex was raised by a hippie mom who didn’t understand the strange things happening to her. Alex ultimately dropped … Continue reading Book Review: Ninth House
THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB | Damien Angelica Walters 12.10.2019 | Crooked Lane Books Rating: 4/5 stars In 1991, Heather Cole and her circle of friends formed the Dead Girls Club. They were a group of friends interested in the macabre, from ghost stories to serial killers. One day group member, Becca, shares the story of … Continue reading Book Review: The Dead Girls Club
THE WINTERS | Lisa Gabriele 10.16.2018 | Viking Rating: 5/5 stars A young woman has been swept up in a whirlwind romance that transports her from desolate island life to a secluded mansion in Long Island known as the Asherly Estate. Max Winters is the man that every little girl dreams of as their future … Continue reading Book Review: The Winters
RULES FOR VANISHING | Kate Alice Marshall 09.24.2019 | Viking Books/Penguin Teen Rating: 4/5 stars Once a year a path appears in the forest and Lucy Gallows beckons someone to come and find her. Are you willing to walk along this mysterious path filled with traps to find a lost girl? What happens to those … Continue reading Book Review: Rules for Vanishing
THE INSTITUTE | Stephen King 09.10.2019 | Scribner Rating: 4.5/5 stars On a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis a group of intruders enter the home of Luke Ellis. In the span of two minutes they murder Luke’s parents and drive away with him, drugged and unaware of his destination. Luke wakes up to a place … Continue reading Book Review: The Institute
THE SWALLOWS | Lisa Lutz 08.13.2019 | Ballantine Books Rating: 4/5 stars Alex Witt has just been appointed the new creative writing teacher at Stonebridge Academy. She starts her first class off with a simple writing prompt. What Alex isn’t expecting is to find clues to Stonebridge’s darkest secret within the answers to her prompt. … Continue reading Book Review: The Swallows
THE MISSING SEASON | Gillian French 05.21.2019 | Harper Teen Rating: 4/5 stars The town of Pender is haunted by several disappearances of children that have happened over the years. They all seem to occur around October and the Halloween season. If you ask the other kids living in the former factory town they would … Continue reading Book Review: The Missing Season
INSPECTION | Josh Malerman 03.19.2019 | Del Rey Books Rating: 4/5 stars The Alphabet Boys are being trained at a school built to raise geniuses by a group known as The Parenthood. Twenty-six boys have lived within the walls of the Turret their whole lives. They have no knowledge of the outside world or the … Continue reading Book Review: Inspection
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE | Shirley Jackson First published 1962 | Penguin Rating: 4/5 stars Merricat Blackwood lives on her family’s secluded estate with her sister Constance and Uncle Julian. The Blackwood family has been blacklisted in the neighboring town. Not long ago there were more Blackwoods living on the estate, but … Continue reading Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
