Book Reviews

  • The Bell Jar By: Sylvia Plath

    A book about Esther and her struggles with mental illness and the pressures of growing up. Sometimes a book comes to you at the perfect time in life. For me, that is this book. I do think I would have liked it if I read it earlier in life, but it might have hit me…

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  • Here One Moment By: Liane Moriarty

    Happy Forth Friends! Enjoy this early review to Liane Moriarty’s latest novel, coming to you September 2024! On a delayed flight passengers find out, whether they like it or not, cause of death and age of death. Funny? Or is it? Some passengers are are predicted to live into their 100s while some are a…

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  • Spells for Forgetting By: Adrienne Young

    Emery’s life is turned upside down when her best friend is murdered, her boyfriend is blamed for it and suddenly disappears from this tight night, small community on an island called Saiorse. She thought she left the past in the past but then August, her ex-boyfriend, comes back to the island. Forced to face the…

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  • James By: Percival Everett

    A retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told through the eyes of James. When Jim finds out he is going to be sold, he tries to hide out until the heat dies down. Instead, he finds himself on a whole new adventure. This book is action packed as, we start from a place we…

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  • Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard By: Tom Felton

    Unless you were living under a rock for the last 10… 20 years … you’ll know the name Harry Potter. Draco, excuse me, Tom, gives the fans a little more insight of what it was like in this whirlwind Harry Potter tornado in his ‘first chapter’ of his life story. Who can judge a book…

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  • The Bad Beginning By: Lemony Snicket

    I tried to summarize this book, but felt the it was best to let the most clever, most truthful, most important author I have ever come across give you, reader, the summery. From the author: Dear Reader, I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells…

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  • The Full Moon Coffee Shop By: Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)

    The reader follows multiple characters as they make their way through life and unexpectedly, in their time of need, a magically coffee shop appears with guidance from an unexpected source. The premise of this book reminded me of the movie Midnight in Paris with Owen Wilson. Instead of prominent figures from 1920s Paris .. in…

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  • Just Another Missing Person By: Gillian McAllister

    A detective’s past rule bending has come back to haunt her. In this twisted thriller from McAllister we are faced with a criminal that uses secrets as a way to bend their will and get the justice they deserve. McAllister is making a name for herself where a reader knows a twist is coming ……

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  • The River We Remember By: William Kent Krueger

    In small town Minnesota, in 1958, Jimmy Quinn is found murdered. Obviously murder is always a big deal, but it becomes a bigger deal when the person suspected is Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife. As tensions rise, Sheriff Dern feels the pressure to…

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  • Heir of Fire By: Sarah J. Maas

    Celaena has found her place in the corrupt castle, but is this forever? Where does she go from here? How much should she give up? Choal, fearing for her safety, sends her off to a distant land. A place she knows from her past. A place where she will have to face her truth. Her…

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