Category: Advance Copy

  • Review: IN THE VINES by Shannon Kirk

    Review: IN THE VINES by Shannon Kirk

    Thank you so very much to Ashley from Amazon Publishing and Thomas & Mercer for providing my gorgeous free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  Family ties so strong you can’t escape… Mary Olivia Pentecost, known as Mop, was born into one of the wealthiest families in the country—and one of the most…

  • Awesome Book Mail from Quirk Books: HOPE NEVER DIES: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

    Awesome Book Mail from Quirk Books: HOPE NEVER DIES: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

    Many many thanks to Quirk Books for this fantastic free copy! Please tell me this cover makes you smile!! HILARIOUS!! Book Description:  Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes with the laugh-out-loud bromantic chemistry of Lethal Weapon’s Murtaugh and Riggs.…

  • Review: GIVE ME YOUR HAND by Megan Abbott

    Review: GIVE ME YOUR HAND by Megan Abbott

    Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely…

  • Review: SAVING BECK by Courtney Cole

    Review: SAVING BECK by Courtney Cole

    Thank you so much to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  There comes a time when offering your life for your child’s doesn’t work, when you realize that it’ll never be enough.  The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at…

  • Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein

    Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein

    Thank you so very much to Random House for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider,…

  • Review: AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim

    Review: AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim

    Thank you so very much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to…

  • Review: CAGED by Ellison Cooper

    Review: CAGED by Ellison Cooper

    Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiancé, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains…

  • Review: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel

    Review: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel

    Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown…

  • Review: THE WORD IS MURDER by Anthony Horowitz

    Review: THE WORD IS MURDER by Anthony Horowitz

    Thank you so very much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead,…

  • Review: FIND YOU IN THE DARK by Nathan Ripley

    Review: FIND YOU IN THE DARK by Nathan Ripley

    Thanks so much to Atria Books for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Description:  For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn’t take…