Published: September 2017 by Running Press Kids Genre: Middle Grade Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I’ll just start this off by saying that I think you should absolutely read this book. If it weren’t for the wonderful community of readers that I’ve found online, this one likely would have escaped my notice. It’s a middle… Continue reading CALEB AND KIT BY BETH VRABEL
Published: January 23rd, 2018 by MIRA Genre: Psychological Thriller My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Okay, let me start off by being completely honest. Psychological thriller just isn’t my genre. I’ve tried. So many times. I want to like this genre. I swear I do. But I just… can’t. Maybe I just haven’t found the right book…… Continue reading BEST FRIENDS FOREVER BY MARGOT HUNT
Sometimes the hardest thing for me to do is give a book a star rating. I could talk all day about my thoughts on a book… seriously. Sit down and ask me my opinion on it and we could talk for hours, regardless of whether I liked it or not. There are just so many things to… Continue reading Why I Struggle Rating Books and Why I Think Ratings are Relative
Published: January 30th by Berkley Pub Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Romance My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars First off, thanks a million to Berkley Publishing for sending me a free copy of this gorgeous little book. The second I had read the blurb I was completely sold. And maybe it was because I had watched way too many Hallmark… Continue reading THE WEDDING DATE BY JASMINE GUILLORY
Published: 2017 by HQN Books Genre: Romance/Holiday My Rating: 4/5 Stars First off, everyone reading this should know that I am a big fan of Hallmark Christmas movies. And when I compare this book to a Hallmark Christmas movie, I mean it in the best possibly way. Secondly, thank you to TLC Book Tours for… Continue reading MOONLIGHT OVER MANHATTAN BY SARAH MORGAN
Published: October 2017 by Hachette Books Genre: Nonfiction / Political Science My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars I was offered an early copy of this one from the people over at Hachette Books in exchange for an honest review. I jumped at the chance, as this book sounded fascinating, and I was not at all disappointed. As… Continue reading A MOONLESS STARLESS SKY BY ALEXIS OKEOWO
Published July 2017 by Viking Books Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars The very first thing that struck me about this book is that it reads like a memoir. It was so open and honest, and it felt so real that I did a couple of double-checks to verify that it was, in fact,… Continue reading WHAT WE LOSE BY ZINZI CLEMMONS
Published: June 2017 by Atria Books Genre: Fiction/ Women’s Fiction My Rating: 4/5 Stars I read this book earlier on in the summer and wrote most of a review when I finished it, but then never got around to polishing it up and posting. So now, with summer coming to a close, I thought I… Continue reading THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID
Published 2017 by Riverhead Books Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction My Rating: 5/5 Stars I think I’ll start by saying that this was my first Paula Hawkins novel. Unlike almost everyone else in the reading world, I never read The Girl on the Train. It was everywhere… so many people were saying, “if you loved Gone… Continue reading INTO THE WATER BY PAULA HAWKINS
Published 2017 by Scribner Books Genre: Fiction/Mystery My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore tells the story of Lydia Smith, a bookstore clerk whose life is turned upside down when her favorite patron of the bookstore kills himself in the shop’s upper room. What makes matters worse is the fact that the boy… Continue reading MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE BY MATTHEW SULLIVAN
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