Book Reviews

  • Monstrilio By: Gerardo Samana Cordova

    Grieving mother, Magos, cuts off a piece of her dead son’s lung. Hearing an old legend, she tries something .. unusual … in hopes to quiet her aching heart. An unexpected character comes into Magos and Joseph’s lives and challenges them to face their grief, accept and navigate powerful loyalty. How will they deal with…

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  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By: David Grann

    The powerful story of a shipwreck, castaways and survival from the 1740s ship The Wager. David Grann puts together all the historical documentation to give people a compelling story of how complicated humans are and how far they are willing to take it when it comes to their own personal survival. First of all, hats…

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  • Crown of Midnight By: Sarah J. Maas

    Celaena may have won the championship, but that isn’t the end of her worries. As she navigates what being a loyal subject to the crown means .. she also has to navigate a bit of love triangle. What amazes me about this series is how long they are, yet how short each book feels. Every book…

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  • Favorite Moments From The Bell Jar

    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath really touched me. Here are some of my favorite moments … “Even the apostles were tentmakers,” she’d say. “They had to live, just the way we do.” I thought this an odd attitude for a doctor to have and perhaps he should study to be a psychiatrist instead ……

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  • Unwanted By: Mia Sheridan

    Happy Friday! This book is already out on the shelves. Let me know what you think in the comments. When Harper is asked by sheriffs office to help out on a murder case as a wilderness expert, her life takes an unexpected turn. The suspect is an ‘uncivilized’ man that captures her attention … and…

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  • 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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