The Influencer by Joyce Maynard
I don’t even know what to say about this one. It was a lot. I think the biggest thing is that the family of Gabby Petito may read this and have some qualms about it. This was a really great short story showing all sides to the murder of a young woman who dreamed about becoming an influencer. I loved the little twist at the end and thought it was quite good. But for those who are True Crime fans who followed Petito’s missing case […]
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
What a great short story by Hoffman. I love her anthology books for a reason. I have never really been able to get into her novels because I feel like they lose a lot along the way. But she always shines in her short stories. This one follows Isabel Gibson who now in her early 30s is alone and living in New York City. She fled her small town of Maine decades earlier after grieving the loss of her mother and father. She and her […]
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb
Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb
Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb
Promises in Death by J.D. Robb
Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb
Missing in Death by J.D. Robb
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
Well one funny thing is that I had forgotten how terrible some of the covers are on these later installments. I also totally forgot an entire book (Salvation in Death). The one good thing about reading/posting reviews of the series this year is that I had flat out forgotten some of the stories out there. I stopped buying hardback and paperback copies of the series after New York to Dallas, so I still have some books to go that I can just pull off my […]
Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This sadly was not as good as Blackout was. Probably because the main couple we follow in this one didn’t read as romantic to me at all. They (Sola and Stevie) read as very immature and honestly I got really tired of Stevie mighty quick. I didn’t find that whole dinner party thing realistic at all because Stevie is supposed to be really smart, but takes something that […]
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Not much to say besides I really enjoyed this. Have some tissues nearby though cause parts are going to make you cry. Who knew you could write a romance novel involving ghosts and death and have it not turn into a Nicholas Sparks novel where you want to fight people in the end? “The Dead Romantics” follows ghost writer Florence Day. Florence tried to publish her own book years earlier and it “flopped.” Now she writes for an uber famous romance novelist. Problem is that […]
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
Did Not Finish-2 and a half stories in (can’t find the book and mark what page I got to) So sad I could not get into this collection at all. I know that Janelle Monáe did her “dirty computer” thing and I get where she was going with this. If you pretend it’s just a continuation to her songs/album it kind of works. But if you never listened to her songs or watched the movie based on these songs, you are going to be totally […]
