★★☆☆☆ Dull, heavy-handed, with unnatural dialogue. This might be petty, but I checked to see how many times the word “bitumen” is used, and surprisingly it was only 30. Maybe because it is fairly uncommon, but every time it came up, for some reason, it made me rage. Below are just some randomly assembled thoughts […]
★★☆☆☆ I was very excited for this book. Tough stories from places far away with people that face great difficulty always interest me. It is as if I am given the gift of a window that opens up to a world that is very much not my own and I am humbled to look through […]
★★★★☆ I feel like I’m starting my summer off on a good foot, here. What a fun little thriller! Before I go into anything else, can I just say, wow! the setting! I think the setting drew me in the quickest, and then Jane Renshaw’s fast-paced writing did the rest. Our protagonist, Anne, lives and […]
★☆☆☆☆ Finished it out of spite. I would also like to make it clear that I did not dislike this book because it is “too sad” or “misery porn” (as some call it, though, yes, it is). That’s actually the reason I read it in the first place. I think this is important to mention […]
★★★☆☆ I really enjoyed the first half of the book, or really, the first quarter. It was funny, quirky (not in the cringe-inducing way) and relatable. But then, around half way, the book lost its charm. The humor disappeared, the plot stalled and became a little bit too melodramatic. Skelly’s intentions became clear a little […]
★★★☆☆ How long has it been since I posted on this blog? Do people still read blogs? After all, I heard about Verity by Colleen Hoover on Tiktok – booktok, to be specific. But I write these reviews for myself, just as much as I write them for others, so yes, I would like for […]
DNF @ 100% Dead girls, they’re everywhere recently. A mystery is not a mystery without a dead girl, it seems. Evelyn Carney is the dead girl in Christina Kovac’s The Cutaway. A radiant woman living and working in Washington DC, surrounded by hungry, crooked people who are willing to put lives on the line for […]
Alright. So. This is more of an update rather than a monthly wrap up. Disappointing, I know, since up until now I’ve only had one of these. March has been difficult, both personally and otherwise. The last review I posted was on the week of my birthday and I let myself take a little break […]
DNF @ 50% Lights On, Rats Out by Cree LeFavour will be in stores everywhere in August 2017. Maybe I was simply not in the mood for self-indulgent rambling but I found it really hard to keep interested in Lights On, Rats Out by Cree LeFavour and her history. She describes her family as being […]
★★☆☆☆ Joining the missing and/or murdered girl trend is So Much Love by Rebecca Rosenblum. Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Reindeer is missing. She is a beloved daughter, wife, student, waitress and book-lover. After disappearing from a parking lot of the restaurant where she worked, Catherine is on the minds of people who knew her, either intimately or […]
The Reluctant Reader 