Book Reviews

  • 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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  • Think Twice By: Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar #12)

    Former basketball star’s life is thrown for a loop when the feds come knocking at his door asking about a friend who died years ago. As Myron learns more about how his, thought to be dead, friend got on the FBI’s radar he finds himself twisted in a more complicated story than expected. Is he…

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  • Darling Girls By: Sally Hepworth

    Follow the stories of 3 foster kids as they discover the dreamy farmhouse called, Wild Meadows, isn’t as dreamy as they might of thought. Starting out, Hepworth is one of my top authors. I’ll read anything she writes. So when I was offered an ARC of her upcoming book I dropped everything and dove in.…

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  • Throne of Glass By: Sarah J. Maas

    A wronged assassin is given a chance to free herself from a death camp, but she stumbles on way more than a simple competition. My biggest question is where is the throne in Throne of Glass? To give you a quick background of where I am at with this viral author, Sarah J. Maas. I…

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  • The Violence By: Delilah Dawson

    Following three abused women in unprecedented times as they attempt to escape their abusers and survive. Let’s start off with, I was not expecting that. I again, didn’t read anything about this book in advance before picking it up and was pleasantly surprised. The author’s note in the beginning felt odd. I can see it…

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  • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle By: Emily Nagoski

    A self help book for WOMEN. Honestly that’s all I got. I can’t even pretend to write a synopsis for this book without being a total snot. I didn’t find this book unhelpful, but I found it offensive. When it comes to self-help style books the reader needs to hear the truth. There will be…

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