I finished July with 35 ARCs left to be read. August feels like it went by in the blink of an eye, didn’t it? My finances took a big hit, with my car needing an expensive repair, 3 of my dogs needing vet visits, then my car needing […]
Monday Mourning Internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs explores the Stockholm syndrome—the psychology of a captive submitting to the ideology of a captor—in this mesmerizing new thriller. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to […]
The Astrology House Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with a ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A group of wealthy Manhattanites escapes to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentments and long-held secrets lead to a shocking death. Margot needs a minute. She’s […]
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: “The Day of the Flight I had to […]
Worst Case Scenario Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown & Company for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back with Worst Case Scenario. When a […]
July is over and we’re into August, which means we’re just a tiny bit closer to autumn starting and this oppressive heat breaking. It’s been really hot on Long Island, and there’s been air quality alerts most days. This isn’t the best kind of weather for asthmatics like […]
Ghost Mother Thank you to NetGalley, Union Square & Co., Dreamscape Media, and Angela Man for providing me with a copy of this ARC/ALC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: infertility, miscarriage (graphic), grief, murder, suicide, death of a child, abortion A mesmerizing psychological ghost story […]
I finished June with 29 ARCs left to be read. July was a really tough month for me. The heat has been brutal for me, with my heat intolerance and my POTS (postural orthostatic hypertension syndrome) combining to make it a difficult month to get out and do […]
House of Glass Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, ableism, infidelity, addiction, death of a parent, trauma, grief On the outside they were the golden family […]
June turned out to be a really enjoyable month for me, making this the best start to a summer that I’ve had in a really long time. I’ve continued attending physical therapy for my shoulder, and I’m not only feeling better than I was even before the surgery, […]
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