Tag: book-review

  • The Memory of Borrowed Books By: Meg Anderson

    The Memory of Borrowed Books By: Meg Anderson

    For the people who love books and libraries .. you’ll love this one. Don’t mind my rating, I’m in the minority. A sweeping, magical ode to community and the stories we leave behind, The Memory of Borrowed Books follows one librarian who discovers a hidden room of unfinished memories—and must find the one that can save her…

  • Getting Away with Murder By: Shari Lapena

    Getting Away with Murder By: Shari Lapena

    The characters are so good, it’s boring. Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are, their status and tastes. With the grand mahogany staircase and state-of-the-art kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy…

  • The Library After Dark By: Ande Pliego

    The Library After Dark By: Ande Pliego

    A horror book that you don’t want to read at night… or in a a basement… or in a dark, creepy library … or in a suspected serial killer’s house. A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not…

  • Please Enjoy Your Stay By: Tara Goedjen

    Please Enjoy Your Stay By: Tara Goedjen

    Coming to you October 2026, this book will be perfect for fall. A creepy thriller with a supernatural touch. When they were teenagers, Mia’s beloved cousin was murdered during their stay at an infamous castle in the Austrian Alps. As the only witness, Mia’s testimony put the killer behind bars, but it tore her life…

  • Lies Between Us By: Jessica Goodman

    Lies Between Us By: Jessica Goodman

    Headed to a private island with rich, generation long families? This could be the book for you. Or for the rest of us, this could be a book to escape to some waterfront mansion, island drama. Do you ever really know the people you love? For the Gold sisters and Silver brothers, life has been…

  • All the Colors of the Dark By: Chris Whitaker

    All the Colors of the Dark By: Chris Whitaker

    A long hauling, decade spanning story that I could have read another 500 pages of. 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted,…

  • The Frozen River By:Ariel Lawhon

    The Frozen River By:Ariel Lawhon

    A clever historical fiction on a subject you don’t read about often. Loved it – so unique. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what…