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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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When the Words Are Caught in Your Throat

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Trigger warning: Rape I don’t know what to say. I loved “Speak” when I read it back in 2015. I felt for Melinda and wanted to hug her throughout the story and loved how Anderson takes a long road to showing us what happened to Melinda and how her life became unraveled before her freshman year of high school. The graphic novel does a great job with showing us Melinda in the present day and her memories of her friends and of a party that […]

Loved the Real Life Backstory to this Book, Thought Some Dialogue Sounded Fake

Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on August 20, 2019.  So “Color Me In” has a young adult character that I think some readers will definitely enjoy. We follow 15 year old Nevaeh Levitz who is dealing with the fall out of her parents separation. She and her mother are living with her mother’s relatives in Harlem while her mother tries to move forward. Nevaeh feels trapped between the world […]

Wonderful Romance!

Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on September 10, 2019.  So “Don’t You Forget About Me” was wonderful. I have never read McFarlane before, but now I want to read all of her books. This book had so much heart and I loved Georgina (the main character) and her friends Jo, Clem, and Rav. I also laughed a lot and even teared up when you find out why Georgina’s […]

Solid Start to a New Series, Some Bugs to Work Out

The Nantucket Inn by Pamela Kelley

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Well I enjoyed all of the background on Nantucket and this book definitely made me want to visit there since everything sounds so fun. I think Kelley has a good eye for describing people, places, and food. Seriously the food that was described sounded awesome. I really wish recipes had been included. That said, I think it was a little lacking with the romance portion and character development. I also think that doing the whole fade to black then showing actual moments of intimacy between […]

Book Wasn’t A Straight Chick Lit/Romance

Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis

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All in all a disappointment. I was expecting to read a romance/chick lit type book and it was all over the place. The hero in this one (Nate) really sucked. And the heroine (Melanie) wasn’t great either. Other reviewers complained about the constant speech making by everyone involved and I have to agree. Real people do not speak like this. Ballis definitely knows her way around a stove though. The recipes that she included sounded awesome and were honestly the only reason why I gave […]

Fascinating Look at Real Life Detective Entwined Within Fictional Book

The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey

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So this book was really good. What I liked best though was that I started to put it together that the Inspector Dew was actually very famous and started reading up on him last night. And then I read up on Dr. Crippen and then I found out that Netflix’s series “Murder Maps” did an actual episode on this guy and I just continued to fall down a rabbit hole. “The False Inspector Dew” follows two people who will do anything to be together. The […]



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