Book Review: An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

This book is classic whodunit featuring a group of people who don’t know each other attending a weekend getaway at a cozy mountain lodge. The couples that are attending all are hoping to come away with positive experiences and stronger relationships. On the way to the lodge, a brutal snowstorm begins and by the time …

Short story review: Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite authors!! I was so excited to see that I was able to get a free copy of this short story on my Kindle! This is a quick and easy read that took me about 20 min (give or take) to finish. It is a series of letters …

Book Review: Lies by TM Logan

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of the e-book in exchange for an unbiased review. Summary: When Joe Lynch is driving his son home, his son insists his mother's car is in a parking lot of a hotel across the street. He looks closer and realizes that it is his …

Book Review and sale for today 10/5-Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson

I read this book about a year ago but never reviewed it. I gave it 4/5 stars on Goodreads and it is one of many books I've read by Peter Swanson. He never disappoints!!  Her Every Fear: A Novel-$1.99 today! Summary: Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic and anxious attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped …

Book Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager-winner of 2018 International Thriller Writers Award for the Best Hardcover Novel

There's a reason this book won the 2018 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL.........it is quite a thriller! Summary: Ten years ago, Quincy went away on a birthday trip to Pine Cottage with some friends and was the only one to survive. It is a classic horror movie storyline-college kids on a weekend …

Book Review: The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle

Summary:For Sabrina’s 30thbirthday dinner, she meets her best friend Jennifer at their favorite restaurant. She is surprised to find three other people from her past along with Audrey Hepburn. Sabrina and Jennifer had often played the game where they name five people, living or dead, they would want to join for dinner. The game comes …

Book Review: In Her Bones by Kate Moretti

Summary: Edie Beckett is the daughter of a famous serial killer.........fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women.  Edie lives far from a normal life working for the city of Philadelphia and struggling with her alcohol addiction. Edie and her brother are the result of a terribly dysfunctional family …

Book Review: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Summary: Ellie was the perfect daughter. She was beautiful, smart, sweet, and the baby of three children..........then she was gone. Ellie's mother, Laurel, just can't put the pieces of her life back together again. Her marriage has fallen apart. It has been ten tragic years without Ellie. Until one day, Laurel meets a charming, sharp …

Book Review: Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle

WOW!!! If you are looking for a gripping thriller, here it is! Kimberly Belle does it again. I loved The Marriage Lie. The last page of that book just totally blindsided me! And she did it again with the last chapter of Three Days Missing. Again I was just hit unexpectedly with a surprising twist! Summary: Kat is …

Check in: 18 in 2018-where am I??

So it is September now and I needed to check in and see where I am in my quest for 18 in 2018.......... I am an avid listener to The Happier Podcast featuring Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and many other books. Back in early 2018, Gretchen and her sister, Liz Craft, challenged listeners …