First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “‘It’s worse when they come at night.’ It […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “His feet slid along the loose gravel as […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “I’ve been in Florida less than a day […]
A Death in Jerusalem Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, blood, grief, Holocaust imagery, mention of death, PTSD, suicide, mention of death of a child, misogyny, homophobia, murder, torture, mention of […]
Speechless Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: anxiety, ableism, mention of death of a parent, grief, infertility, mention of cancer, mention of child abuse When life’s off-key, go to Malibu. […]
The Auschwitz Detective Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, genocide, graphic Holocaust imagery, violence, blood, murder, suicide, antisemitism, homophobia, mention of rape, mention of molestation The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. […]
A Deadly Act Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, Holocaust imagery, blood, antisemitism, alcoholism, molestation, suicide, drug use, violence Love made her lie. But did hate make her tell the truth? […]
A Debt of Death Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, blood, Holocaust imagery, PTSD, grief, antisemitism, torture, violence, gun violence, gore The dead man was lying face down in a puddle […]
Ten Years Gone Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: Holocaust flashbacks, trauma, grief, murder, violence, blood, discussion of war, murder of children, gore, attempted sexual assault On the dusty streets of post-war […]
I always have a long, long list of books on my TBR list, so I don’t tend to reread books very often. Even though I’d like to read them more often. However, there are some books that I’ve turned to more than a few times over the years. […]
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