Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Well this made me cry at the end. I so wanted a different ending. Which to me is often a sign of a very good book. You hope for a different outcome even though you know it’s not possible. “Burial Rites” is a historical fiction novel based on true events. We follow the final days of a young woman named Agnes Magnúsdóttir, found guilty of murder and sentenced to be beheaded in Iceland in 1829. The book follows many characters and you get most of them […]
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
Absolutely fantastic. This was so good I didn’t want it to end. Bardugo does an excellent job with the stories and Kipin’s illustrations evokes the fairy tale setting and characters so well. I may just buy this in hardback for the illustrations alone. These stories are a great blend of retellings as well as something darker that leaks into each story that makes it just as much a cautionary tale as Grimm’s original fairy tales. Here are my ratings for all of the stories, but […]
Slice of Murder by Rosie A. Point
Nice. Definitely needed a fun cozy mystery. I think I will keep up with this series. I like to keep them in rotation with the more grisly mystery books that I read. I thought this was great and the main character Gina is going to be fun to follow. I also laughed out loud several times while reading. At one point someone goes to Gina, “Well color me brown and call me a candy bar.” I have no idea if this is a real saying, […]
Blame it On the Pumpkin by Tara Moeller
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Ahh, a very nice Halloween anthology series. I really enjoyed the stories for the most part, there were just two stories that did not work for me. I am realizing now after reading other’s reviews that some of the stories were not everyone’s cup of tea. Probably because most of the readers wanted more horror and not gallows humor that seemed to run through some of the stories. […]
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
Last book review of the day! Huzzah. This will also teach me to next time make sure my books are downloaded on my Kindle before going back to my hometown where WiFi is not a thing apparently. I was so mad at myself. Will get back to the other books I had planned to read for Halloween Bingo, but didn’t want to just not read anything to keep up with my planned reading schedule. Thank goodness I had so many King and Christie books already […]
Firestarter by Stephen King
Weird, I don’t remember this book being so long when I read it as a kid. But this one is fairly long. I was happy to read about Charlie and her father trying to get away from the scientists who want to lock them up and study them. I always found this book to be a bit reminiscent of Dean Koontz in parts since King really doesn’t do the whole evil scientist thing much in his books. But this still works years later. I always […]
