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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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The Christmas Bookshop

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

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I ended up buying some paperbacks a few weeks ago and I really need to get that pile down to a manageable and not crazy book hoarder level. This was a solid Christmas read. It definitely put me in the mood for winter (please don’t throw stuff at me right now). I loved the characters of Carmen and Sofia and also wanted to shake both at times. This honestly is a story of sisters with romance taking a backseat. If you were hoping for some […]

The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  Not what I was expecting. This honestly is a good primer if you have not read a true crime book before. But I was familiar with about 90 percent of the stories that the author chose to provide details to. What was unexpected was this book included definitions for certain things such as bail and then did a lot of trivia throughout. The book just jumped back and […]

My Wife is Missing

My Wife is Missing by D.J. Palmer

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So D.J. Palmer is hit or miss with me. This one was such a miss. I think the issue was not only the three points of view (showing Michael Hart and then Natalie Hart before and then in the present) just didn’t work. I also rolled my eyes at how things got resolved. There’s no real DUN DUN DUN for me. I just guessed at one of the […]

The Overnight Guest

The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

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Trigger warning: Rape This is a good book to keep in mind for Halloween Bingo. It fits a couple of squares that I selected when I added this to our library. I really enjoyed this read. I was interested in the story that Wylie was there writing and loved how things tied together. I will say that of course you may not be super thrilled with the number of coincidences in this one when you get to the end. But I just rolled with it. […]

Gwendy’s Final Task

Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King

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The only reason why I am giving this a grudging two stars is because of the Easter eggs to other King works. If not for that, this would barely get a 1. What kills me with this story honestly is that if you have not read the Dark Tower, Castle Rock books, and IT you are going to be totally lost. I ended up just wishing that King had done a last book on the Dark Tower series, or maybe done a third book in […]

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment by Lucey Foley

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So. This was bad. Like so many levels of badness. I think at one time I went, why is this happening. I read this til I went to bed last night. So one good thing, this book was so bad, I didn’t watch the Oscars live and see the you know what that happened between [redacted] and [redacted]. But seriously let’s start off with the plot made no sense, the characters are cardboard cutouts, the writing/dialogue was terrible, the flow was awful, and that ending….nope. […]



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