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The Guest List by Lucy Foley, published Feb 2020, is one of the best Mystery Thriller books I have read in a very long time. The Guest List by Lucy Foley is masterful and has really set my expectations for mystery thrillers at a higher level. If you enjoy who-done-it books with a thriller twist [...]
By the title, Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, one would assume this would be a book about a Mexican Gothic story. And is it? Technically…yes it is. It has a gothic overlay, gothic setting, gothic tone but this is more accurately a horror with a Gothic atmosphere. I see that this book is a winner [...]
I read 19 books in the year 2020 and am about 300 pages into my last book. I am pretty sure I won't finish that book by the end of the year, or shall I say I am not going to force myself to finish it just to say I read 20 and not 19... [...]
The Girl He Used to Know is a a book that takes place in two time periods, the past being in 1991 and the present setting taking place in 2001. Our main character is Annika who is shy and self-described as different than most people. She does not know she is high functioning on [...]
Sky in The Deep Adrienne Young Sky in the Deep is a YA to New Adult historical fiction book based in a fantastically positive outlook on how the vikings could have lived. The daily interactions of these vikings are expressed in a much different way than the typical barbaric and mysterious way we commonly read [...]
Are you on Goodreads? I love Goodreads. It is such a valuable tool and I enjoy the site so much. It catalogues everything for me, what I want to read, what I have read, and my favorite being that it gives me percentages of how much I have read in the books I am currently [...]
This review has spoilers - DO NOT READ any further if you do not want the ending spoiled. I started reading It on September 26th 2019 and finished on December 17th 2019. It took me 3 months to read 1156 pages. I would read about 200 pages and then stop for about 2 weeks. [...]
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi Wow! What an adventure this is. 5/5 Stars on Goodreads I have heard so many great things about this story and I believe it deserves every accolade it has received. The world this author has built is original and different than any other [...]
Liar Temptress Soldier Spy Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott I am blown away by how Karen Abbott was able to take a non-fiction book, over 4 years of real life events, intertwined with 4 real people’s live’s stories during the Civil War and make it read like a story. A [...]
Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have decided that I am not giving any of my books a .25/.5/.75 rating on Goodreads. This is a very short 200 page sci-fi, which I can’t really see this book being any longer. It might actually be [...]