Book Title: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Genre: Literary fiction, Contemplative fiction
Published Date: May 30, 2006
Rating: 4 stars
This #TBT review was originally posted on January 22, 2008 and was read for a number of reading challenges: TBR, A to Z Authors (E), and 101 Books in 1,001 Days. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Book Title: The Muse Asylum
Author: David Czuchlewski
Genre: Literary fiction
Published Date: May 21, 2001
Rating: 4 stars
Back in January 2008, after The Nixie’s Song, I really needed to pick up and read something that would get the bad taste out of my mouth and I certainly did with The Muse Asylum. Recommended to me by my friend, Jill, who knows my taste in books so well, I quickly immersed myself in the words of this first-time author who had been mentored by Joyce Carol Oates (although I personally don’t care for her writing, I knew that the writing had to be top notch). The telling of the story alternates between journalist Jake Burnett and the writings of Andrew Wallace who just happens to be the resident of a psychiatric hospital. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Muse Asylum”
Book Title: The Things We Wish Were True
Author: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Genres: Mystery, Adult Fiction
Pub Date: 9/1/16
3 STARS
In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations.
From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house. Continue reading “The Things We Wish Were True Review”
Book Title: The Nixie’s Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
Author: Tony diTerlizzi and Holly Black
Genre: Children
Rating: 2.5 stars
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. Continue reading “#TBT Thoughts: The Nixie’s Song”
On my curated list of things, I’d like to do, and close to the very top, was getting tickets to watch a Dolby movie. Over the years and the last couple of months, The Prophet has been stoking the fire and educating me on the evolution of superheroes and associated villains. (I even have a Wonder Woman blender bottle now for protein shakes.) Continue reading “You Can’t Watch a Dolby Movie Alone”
Book Title: Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite #5) Review
Author: Robert Dugoni
Genres: Thriller
Pub Date: 9/5/17
4 STARS
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy. Continue reading “Close to Home Book Review”
Book Title: The Trapped Girl (Tracy Crosswhite #4) Review
Author: Robert Dugoni
Genres: Thriller
Pub Date: 1/24/17
4 STARS
When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?
After evidence surfaces that their Jane Doe may be a woman who suspiciously disappeared months earlier, Tracy is once again haunted by the memory of her sister’s unsolved murder. Dredging up details from the woman’s past leads to conflicting clues that only seem to muddy the investigation. As Tracy begins to uncover a twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she’ll find herself risking everything to confront a killer who won’t go down without a deadly fight. Once again, New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers a taut, riveting thriller in the fourth installment of his acclaimed Tracy Crosswhite series. Continue reading “The Trapped Girl Book Review: #4 of Tracy Crosswhite Series”
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