Category: Book Reviews
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Review: HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
Book Description: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given…
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Review: THE SANDMAN by Lars Kepler
Thank you so much to Knopf for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Mikael knows him as “the sandman”. Seven years ago, he was taken from his bed along with his sister. They are both presumed dead.” Book Description: Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years…
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Review: UNRAVELING OLIVER by Liz Nugent
“I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.” This is a masterfully written debut, that I cannot stop thinking about! It’s well-crafted and every chapter is well-thought-out. Oliver had a harrowing childhood, suffered through boarding school, and was ignored by his father. Now, all grown up and an author, he’s married…
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Review: BLOOD WEDDING by Pierre Lemaitre
Thank you so much Quercus for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out…
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Review: GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER by Shobha Rao
Thank you so much Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Poornima blinked, but it wasn’t tears she blinked back. What was it? She didn’t know, but she could see it—-floating in the air around her, suffocating, spinning like ash.” Book Description: Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against…
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Review: A GUIDE FOR MURDERED CHILDREN by Sarah Sparrow
Thank you so much to Blue Rider Press and Penguin Random House for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Immediately, I was drawn to the title and cover of this book. Then I read the description and I knew I had to read it. The souls of murdered children exact revenge on…
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Review: TANGERINE by Christine Mangan
Thank you so much to Ecco Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Tangier and Lucy were the same, I thought. Both unsolvable riddles that refused to leave me in peace. And I had tired of it – of the not knowing, of always feeling as though I were on…
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Review: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb
Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: 1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege. In the hardscrabble industrial…
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Review: KEEP HER SAFE by K.A. Tucker
Many thanks to Atria Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “When was the last time I trusted anyone the way I seem to trust Noah almost instinctively, no matter how many times he’s given me reason not to? I never have. Because I’ve never met a guy like him.”…
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Review: PAPERBACKS FROM HELL by Grady Hendrix
PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF 70’s AND 80’s HORROR FICTION by Grady Hendrix is SO AWESOME!! Thank you Quirk Books for sending me a free copy – all opinions are my own. My favorite era of horror is the 1970’s and 1980’s. My mom and older sister often read the books featured here…