Just a girl and her books
MOTHER MAY I | Joshilyn Jackson 04.06.2021 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned by her single mother that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother’s fearful outlook. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has … Continue reading Book Review: Mother May I
HER DARK LIES | J.T. Ellison 03.09.2021 | Mira Books Rating: 4/5 stars The wedding of the year has arrived and a killer appears to be amongst those in attendance. Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. The sprawling villa sitting cliff-top is owned … Continue reading Book Review: Her Dark Lies
FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT | Elle Cosimano 02.02.2021 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Finlay Donovan is definitely not killing it. She’s a stressed-out single mother of two who is struggling to find time she desperately needs to finish her latest novel. Her ex-husband just fired the nanny without telling her and this morning … Continue reading Book Review: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
A SPY IN THE STRUGGLE | Aya de León 12.29.2020 | Kensington Books Rating: 4/5 stars Since childhood Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. When her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yoland turns on … Continue reading Book Review: A Spy in the Struggle
THEY NEVER LEARN | Layne Fargo 10.13.2020 | Gallery Rating: 5/5 stars Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor, but she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. She has gotten away with her crimes for years thanks to … Continue reading Book Review: They Never Learn
THE WIFE UPSTAIRS | Rachel Harrison01.05.2021 | St. Martin’s PressRating: 4/5 stars Meet Jane. She has just arrived in Birmingham, Alabama and is looking to make a new start. Luck has brought her into dog walking in a gated community, Thornfield Estates, filled with McMansions and bored housewives. It’s the kind of place where Jane … Continue reading Book Review: The Wife Upstairs
THEME MUSIC | T. Marie Vandelly 07.23.2019 | Dutton Books Rating: 5/5 stars Dixie Wheeler’s life is defined by her past. She has carried the trauma and stigma associated with her family for decades. Dixie is “Baby Blue”, the lone survivor of her father’s murderous rage that left her mother and brothers butchered. Twenty-five years … Continue reading Book Review: Theme Music
HOME BEFORE DARK | Riley Sager 06.30.2020 | Dutton Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars Maggie Holt has lived for twenty-five years in the shadow of Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods that she used to call home. She lived there for only three weeks with her parents until they ended up fleeing … Continue reading Book Review: Home Before Dark
NEVER TURN BACK | Christopher Swann 10.06.2020 | Crooked Lane Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Ethan Faulkner was a precocious child with a troublesome sister, a war veteran father, and a weary mother trying to keep them all together. One night there was a pounding knock at their door. A young girl on the run from … Continue reading Book Review: Never Turn Back
THE CIRCLE | Stephen J. Galgon 08.15.2019 | MJE Publishing Rating: 4/5 stars What if you could have all the money you ever wanted? What if you could have the power to control law enforcement, politicians, and the judicial system? What would you be willing to give up? Those who are part of The Circle … Continue reading Book Review: The Circle
