The Night Tiger By: Yangsze Choo Grade: A See this is one of those books that make me realize I could never be a book character because if I came into possession of a severed human finger I would toss it and run screaming not be like oh, mysterious! Let’s go digging! Especially when you … More A Lot of Trouble for One Finger
A Novel Bookstore By: Laurence Cossé Grade: B- Two people decide to team up in Paris and open a bookstore that sells only “good” books. Books chosen by a special and secret committee to wade through all novels. You would think this would be a great thing and for a little while it is. Only … More Intriguing but Flawed: A Novel Bookstore
A Discovery of Witches Powerful witches, libraries, ancient books, Matthew Goode, non sparkling vampires… some of my favorite things right there. I read A Discovery of Witches ages ago and but enjoyed it enough to want to watch the show. The sequel as well though I don’t think I ever finished the series.
A Simple Favor Directed by: Paul Feig Grade: A Forming friendships as adults can be really difficult sometimes. Hard to connect with people life gets in the way of new relationships and so on and so forth. So that’s why it was nice to see Stephanie and Emily’s friendship form in last years A Simple … More It’s Not Easy Making New Friends
An Anonymous Girl By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Grade: B Releases: January 8th It probably is and you should run away. When Jessica lies her way into a morality study the strapped for cash girl feels like she hit the jackpot when the Doctor chooses her for “further studies.” Unfortunately for Jess Doctor Lydia … More If It Seems to Good to Be True…
Once Upon a River By: Diane Setterfield Grade: A Once upon a time a girl in the California desert was lucky enough to receive an arc of Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River. Her first read by the author and, if the river wills it, not her last. It’s a story about stories. A story … More The Power of Stories: Once Upon a River
The Lies We Told By: Camilla Way Grade: A- Clara seems to have the good life going on when he boyfriend Luke disappears. At first no one is overly worried about Luke until Clara discovers evidence he was being stalked. Further complicating matters Luke’s long missing sister shows up when she hears the news. She … More Secrets, Lies and Consequences
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing By: Hank Green Grade: B -ish So how about another Green brother? Hank Green’s first book is about a twenty-something woman called April May who stumbles over a new “sculpture” in New York that she dubs Carl, uploads a video and becomes the center of this great, vast and mysterious world-wide … More An Absolutely Split Mind on this One
searching Directed By: Aneesh Chaganty Grade: A- David Kim’s daughter Margot disappears one night. And the search leads him down a rabbit hole of social media and discovery after discovery of what Margot was hiding in an effort to find her. Part of me couldn’t help but think hey, if you stopped videotaping her for … More What Happened to Margot Kim?
Hello! It’s another blog tour and a giveaway! 15 years ago Emma Davis watched her cabin mates Vivian, Natalie and Allison slip out in the middle of the night. They hushed her and told her she was to young to go with them only to never been seen again.