Just a girl and her books
THE RESTING PLACE | Camilla Sten 03.29.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Eleanor has prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you. When she walks in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the … Continue reading Book Review: The Resting Place
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL | Aimee Molloy 10.13.2020 | Harper Rating: 4/5 stars Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are crazy about each other. They have decided to say goodbye to New York City and start over in Sam’s quaint hometown in upstate New York. Things aren’t quite the way they pictured. Annie spends most of her … Continue reading Book Review: Goodnight Beautiful
VIOLET | S.J.I. Holliday 11.14.2019 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Carrie’s best friend was supposed to go with her on an epic round-the-world trip, but ended up injuring her leg in a freak accident, so she has decided to set off alone. Violet has recently split from her boyfriend and is also travelling alone. … Continue reading Book Review: Violet
EMMA IN THE NIGHT | Wendy Walker St. Martin’s Press | 08.08.2017 Rating: 5/5 stars Three years ago, in the middle of the night, the Tanner sisters disappeared. The car belonging to Emma, age seventeen, was found abandoned at the beach with all of her personal effects left behind. People would have assumed she walked … Continue reading Book Review: Emma in the Night
IN A DARK, DARK WOOD | Ruth Ware Harvill Secker | 07.30.2015 Rating: 4/5 stars Leonora “Nora” Shaw is a writer living a quiet life in London. One day she receives an invitation to a hen night for her childhood best friend, Clare. The thing is, she hasn’t seen Clare for 10 years. Back when … Continue reading Book Review: In a Dark, Dark Wood
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS | B.A. Paris St. Martin’s Press | 08.09.2016 Rating: 5/5 stars Meet Jack and Grace Angel, they’re the perfect couple. Jack has good looks and wealth. Grace has poise and sophistication. They’re the picture of perfection as an inseparable newlywed couple. Just how perfect are things when no one is looking? Why … Continue reading Book Review: Behind Closed Doors
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