Just a girl and her books
WATCH OVER ME | Nina LaCour 09.15.2020 | Dutton Rating: 4/5 stars Mila has recently graduated from high school and aged out of the foster care system. She is used to being alone. Perhaps that’s what drew her to accepting a new opportunity. She’ll be living in a remote place, among the flowers and the … Continue reading Book Review: Watch Over Me
BEHIND THE RED DOOR | Megan Collins 08.04.2020 | Atria Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Have you ever had a strange feeling that something happened in your past, but you can’t remember the event? Fern Douglas has learned news of a missing woman whose face she can’t help but find familiar, however, she has no recollection … Continue reading Book Review: Behind the Red Door
THE SECOND MOTHER | Jenny Milchman 08.18.2020 | Sourcebooks Rating: 4/5 stars Julie Weathers has been stuck in a life she never thought she would be leading and is in desperate need of a new beginning. When she finds an ad for an opportunity to be a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse on a remote … Continue reading Book Review: The Second Mother
THE GOOD NURSE | Charles Graeber 07.29.2014 | Hachette Rating; 4/5 stars Registered nurse Charlie Cullen was arrested in December 2003 and quickly dubbed “The Angel of Death” by the media. Cullen was not a mercy killer however, he chose to take his victims without any rhyme or reason, often simply choosing the easiest target … Continue reading Book Review: The Good Nurse
STIFF | Mary Roach 04.17.2003 | W. W. Norton Company Rating: 4/5 stars Have you ever wondered what happens to our bodies if they’re donated to science? For years, the scientific field has been using cadavers, sometimes with or without approval, to make advances in many fields. This means those bodies are being used to … Continue reading Book Review: Stiff
THE GUNSLINGER | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1) 05.03.2016 (first published 06.01.1982) | Scribner Rating: 3/5 stars Roland Deschain hails from a Gilead and a world that has been left on the brink of destruction. The last of his kind, Roland is known as a gunslinger. His one mission is to track the Man … Continue reading Book Review: The Gunslinger
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON | David Grann 04.18.2017 | Vintage Rating: 4/5 stars The Osage Nation in Oklahoma struck it rich in the 1920s when oil was discovered beneath their land. The people of this nation were each given a portion of the wealth and soon the land was filled with chauffeured automobiles, mansions, … Continue reading Book Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
THE CHESTNUT MAN | Soren Sveistrup 09.03.2019 | Harper Rating: 5/5 stars A serial killer is on the hunt in Copenhagen. Leaving behind a chestnut man as his calling card, the killer marks their presence at gruesome crime scenes. These tiny dolls made from matchsticks and two chestnuts could hold the key to a much … Continue reading Book Review: The Chestnut Man
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