Book Reviews

  • Demon Copperhead By: Barbara Kingsolver

    Inspired by Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, we follow Demon Copperhead throughout his life where he was ‘dealt the wrong hand’ straight from birth. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia reader can follow Demon as he faces the foster system, opioid epidemic, addiction and crushing losses of love and family. Will he make it out…

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  • The Midnight Feast By: Lucy Foley

    Opening night for an historic mansion, turned luxury hotel is the perfect place for a reckoning. Multiple POVs weave together a twisting story leading up to the summer solstice party. Secrets are threatened to be revealed, in this latest thriller by Lucy Foley. The plan has been set, but by who and will it go…

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  • The Lake of Lost Girls By: Katherine Greene

    A cold case “resurfaces” when a body appears near the local lake. Sister Lindsey desperately wants to know what happened to her sister and three other girls that shaped her life. A popular podcast and media put pressure on the new wave of detectives to solve the 20 year old crime, bringing the truth right…

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  • One By One By: Freida McFadden

    A group of friends plan a relaxing vacation in a secluded inn. On the way there, the mini van breaks down and they decide to walk the ‘short distance’ through the woods to the inn to get help. Then they are lost. Lost and one by one people in their group start disappearing. Who is…

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  • The Sunflower House By: Adriana Allegri

    Handmaid’s Tale meets WWII Hitler’s Germany in this story about finding the truth, surviving and trying to save as many children as possible along the way. Family secrets come out when a daughter discovers a box in her mother’s closet. The truth of her parentage and what her parents did to keep her safe is…

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  • Wellness By: Nathan Hill

    A story about marriage, relationships, hopes and life in the 90s Chicago area. This book exhausted me. There were two books inside this one novel and maybe I didn’t give it a real chance once the second book started … but at 75% I realized I was dredging picking this monster of a book up.…

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  • Never Lie By: Freida McFadden

    A house showing of a missing psychiatrist, a snow in, a secret room full of tapes of people’s deepest secrets … what more could you ask for? Oh, maybe some muurrrdddeeerrrr? Everyone has secrets and the house of a missing psychiastrist is holding too many to count. Allow McFadden to take you on another twisty,…

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  • Listen for the Lie By: Amy Tintera

    A terrible accident left one girl dead and one girl with no memory of what happened. Found covered in blood Lucy knows she wouldn’t kill her best friend… right? With no way to charge ‘caught red handed Lucy’, she thinks this is all in the past until a true crime podcaster starts digging around and…

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  • The Lost Story By: Meg Shaffer

    Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, two boys who society would never expect to be friends get ‘lost’ in the woods together. After being miraculously found, no one knows how they survived, why they came back or where they were while they were missing. I was excited to read another Meg Shaffer book after…

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  • Ninth House By: Leigh Bardugo

    Welcome to New Haven – a place riddled with grays (ghosts) and magic galore. Instead of frat houses, we have magic houses. Instead of basements filled with beer pong, we have tombs and rituals. (Just kidding, beer pong is there too.) Alex is scooped out of her dejecting life and given the oppurtunity to join…

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