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items I am a book lover who wants to share my love of books with others. My reviews are short and sweet because who has time to ready book reviews, when you could just be reading the book?
This book!!! If I rated books with more than 5 stars, this would definitely get them. My love of reading started late in life (really just a few years ago) and it started with this book. I think I read it within 24 - 48 hours. I have just read it aga...
What She Left Behind: 1920s Historical Fiction
I was really excited to read this book. I was wondering what kind of trouble Stella could have gotten into to test her parents limits...if they had any...to save her. My excitement didn't last long. This story dragged on. The ending was a bit predict...
A Nearly Normal Family: A Novel
This book was definitely different. It reminded me of a sci-fi book I had read with all the smart home features. The new house that Cecelia and her family move into is supposed to make her feel safe and not have to worry about anything. It knows exac...
A Woman Alone
I'll admit that I am a little biased to this book since my daughter is the author. That's right, your beloved bloggers daughter wrote her very own book at just 5 years old. She came up with this adorable story and kept telling it to me. I typed it up...
Airabella: The Unicorn Who Didn't Bathe
The first chapter had me wondering if I was going to like it at all. I thought it was going to be a book about a bunch of kids getting into trouble. I was wrong. The bodies start to drop right in the beginning and don't stop throughout the entire boo...
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning
I was introduced to David Moody when I read his book One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning. That book had me hooked right away. Unfortunately I didn't realize it was part of a series and of course I had read them out of order. Lucky for me it didn't matt...
All Roads End Here (The Final War, 2)
I'll start off saying that maybe this is one of those books that would be better to read instead of listen to. The whole story was sort of off to me. It worked it's way backwards, but also jumped from the then and now...I think. I was never sure wher...
All the Missing Girls: A Novel
So this was kind of a weird book for me. I didn't think it was amazing or anything like that, yet I couldn't put it down. I wanted to know what was going to happen to Colin. The weird obsession with Katherines and then the Theorem was unlike any othe...
An Abundance of Katherines
Another book by this team that I was unable to put down once I started reading. The chapters go back and forth between the two main characters, Jessica and Dr. Shields, in the first person. They are short which is one of the reason is was so easy and...
An Anonymous Girl
I enjoyed this book for a few reasons. First is that is is set in Upstate New York where I live. I always enjoy reading books set in my local area. Second, the book takes place in the winter and I was reading it during that same time of the year. So ...
An Unwanted Guest: A Novel
I think this was a good horror book for young adults. I did enjoy the book, right up until the end. The fact that an old asylum was turned into a college was a great story-line itself. It screams haunted. I mean what teenager wouldn't want to go and ...
Asylum: A Great Fall and Halloween Read for Teens
Can you imagine living in a world without men? That's what has happened in Athena's Choice. There was a man made virus that was created to slowly kill off the "bad" men, but it accidentally rid the world of all men (and even some women). Athena is ca...
Athena's Choice
I don't usually enjoy short stories all that much because there's either no time to get into them or they end just as you do. These ones seemed to be just the right amount of writing to enjoy and feel complete. The beginning and the end ones were the...
Autonomy
The emotions that I felt reading this book was not all that surprising to me. It was raw and real. Why? Because the stories in this book are the true stories of what children endured at the hands of a Ms. Georgia Tann, a real life monster. When I fir...
Before and After: Real Stories of Tennessee Orphans
Though this book is fiction, it is based on real life events. You can find out more about the real life horror in Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie and Li...
Before We Were Yours: A Novel
After reading and loving Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, I was really looking forward to this one. The books goes back and forth between 1875 (with the main character being Hannie) and 1987 (with the main character being Benedetta). I enjoyed t...
The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel
This book...WOW!! Normally you spend at least half the book trying to figure out who the killer is. This book starts off by telling you who did it right away. Well, if you know who did it, then what's the point of reading any further? Trust me, you'l...
Before She Knew Him: A Novel
Jack and Grace are the perfect couple or are they.... are things really what they appear to be? The book shifts easily between the past and the present. You learn how they met, about Grace's sister with down syndrome, the quick engagement, the weddin...
Behind Closed Doors: A Novel
I didn't watch the show on Netflix and I think it made the book even better. Since the characters in the book are unable to look at anything, they rely on other senses. That means that everything they can't see is described to you. For me, this made ...
Josh Malerman Bird Box Don't Open Eyes HB
This is a quick and easy read. The short stories are very short, but have everything a story needs to make it feel "complete". I loved how this book brings a bunch of short stories together through location. All the characters experience a different ...
The Book Of Witness: Paranormal Mystery
Not only was this book extremely long, but in my opinion it was extremely boring too. I felt like it wasn't going anywhere at all. There was no suspense, no excitement.....nothing. The only thing that I wanted to know is what happened to the Jewish m...
The Book Thief
I needed to quick read so I grabbed this book and I am so glad that I did. I am always amazed at the awful treatment that people went thru during the Holocust. Not only the treatment that so many received, but how some of them were able to deal with ...
The Boy Who Dared
This book left me feeling incomplete....not like way you feel when you finished a book in a series, but like the book was written before it was fully thought thru. I will say that the author does an amazing job at describing the the scenes, but not t...
The Cabin at the End of the World: A Thriller
I was surprised to find this book pretty disappointing. It has an amazing beginning that just kind of leads into a boring story that drags. To make matters worse, the ending (in my opinion) was awful. I thought that it was going to be suspenseful wit...
Camino Island: A Novel
Who would've thought that being a simple organizational person could make your life a mess. For Emily it's harder than you'd think. She is married to a hoarder who lives for garage sales. Emily is just trying to get her new business off the ground an...
Careful What You Wish For: A Novel of Suspense
What does the future mean to you? What could you give up to be successful? What about 3 years of your life? Sounds easy, but what if those 3 years meant you had to give up any contact with the world outside of the school walls. No TV, no cell phone, ...
Catherine House: A Novel
To start with, who just leaves their baby home along even if you are next door with a baby monitor? I can understand running over or a few minutes, but definitely not hours. I didn't like any of the characters right off the bat because of this. I did...
The Couple Next Door: A Novel
Where to begin.... The main character of the book, Natalie, is very unlikable. She is so negative and depressing. She is always complaining about how things have gotten as bad as they can get. Then a few chapters later she says the same thing. There ...
Control Freakz: YA Dystopian Thriller #1
I grabbed this book for 2 reasons. 1 - it was by and author I usually enjoy. 2 - it was short. Although it was a short book I thought it was well written and fit a lot of action into a short amount of pages. I enjoyed the entire thing, until I got to...
Cross Kill: An Alex Cross Story (BookShots 1)
In the Murrieta, trading is a way of life and very profitable for those who control the trade routes. Jeannie Morrell is only 13 years old when looses her entire family as the Keagan gang seeks to take over all the trading in the Murrieta Territory. ...
Crimson River (Civilands Book 1)
Just about every book has a hero and a villain. Everyone always roots for the hero and hates the villain, right? Never before have I ever felt bad for the villain, but in Crystal Eyes, I did...well not all the villains. The Keagan's are horrible peop...
Crystal Eyes (Civilands Book 2)
Just like the previous books in this series I was unable to put it down. I don't even know where to start with my review. The book is so well written that it is easy to read and flows perfectly even when switching between characters and scenarios. Da...
Crescent Heart (Civilands Book 3)
As with the first 3 in the Cryptic Kingdom series, N.B. Austin was able to keep my attention throughout the book. I love how much the characters have grown throughout and became so mature. I never expected to see the unity of certain groups when I fi...
Cryptic Kingdom (Civilands Book 4)