Definitely lives up to all the hype! Great psychological thriller with the gore. Throughout the book you are questioning if the serial killer called The Whisper Man was actually caught and in jail or is actually still on the loose or had an accomplice. You also question if Jake is just traumatized after losing his…
Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
I really wanted to like this book. I thought I would relate to the main character with her prayer beads, religious devotion, and martyr/saints/ gods being s former Catholic. But no. This book dragged and repeated itself. There was insta-romance with an equally flat character and conflict that seemed to be miserly in people’s heads. …
Paper Towns by John Green
I loved this book because it felt real. There is not always a storybook ending and people are not always what they seem. This was a story about growing up and realizing that the girl next door was not the person you thought she was. It did stir up feelings of nostalgia especially about senior…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I thought this was going to be a light summer read. I was so wrong. This is the best book I read all year. A glamorous movie star whose life and character is deeper and stronger than appearances. You get a look behind the curtain and see the sacrifices and decisions that made her career…
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
This book reminded me of Game of Thrones’ battles in the snow against the cold ones from the Wildlings point of view. It is actually a Viking clan story about an axe-wielding warrior maiden, Eelyn, whose clan traditionally wars with another clan every year until villages worth of people in both clans are mysterious killed…
#FashionVictim by Amina Akhtar
People seem to hate this book but if you read it as a satire as it is meant then you’ll enjoy it. The narrator is working at a fashion magazine and simultaneously loves and hates her job and the fashion industry. She hates the shallow people and the ridiculous things she has to wear and…
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Awesome Halloween read It got me in the Halloween spirit with its Wiccan ceremonies, raising people from the dead, and deaths under suspicious circumstances. But I think this would be a good read no matter what time of the year. The heavy topics of grief and teen suicide/death is paired with the narrator’s wit and…
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
So good. The perfect summer read. Awesome thriller… twisting plot, unreliable narrator, missing girls, spooky summer camp… what more could you want from a mystery? I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty always has great character development and this book is no exception. Nine Perfect Strangers all go to a health resort for various reasons but in the end it is because they are not happy with their life. You gradually learn more about each character as they go through a 10 Day Cleanse, ran…
My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Well I thought I would like this book more than I actually did. It was not as laugh out loud funny as My Lady Jane and it was not a fast read for me. I did enjoy that it was a Jane Eyre retelling and that it had ghosts in it— this was the only…
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
I loved the 80’s feel to the book with the boys riding around on bikes in a small town, avoiding the bullies. At first it was also reminding me of Stephen King’s It with some of the graphic violence and horror and some of the characters had similar traits. But then it became its own…
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
The entire time I was reading this book I was wondering if I was in an alternate reality or if the narrator was actually crazy, if his girlfriend was emotionally manipulating him, if there was a mental game these two were playing. I questioned it the entire book. This book made you question everything and…
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