Rating: 3.5 / 5 Having recently read AMERICAN ROYALS by Katharine McGee with a great group on bookstagram, a good number of us decided to pick up Katherine McGee's earlier trilogy beginning with THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR. THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR begins with tragedy. From the top of a thousand floor building in a New York about… Continue reading THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR by Katharine McGee
Month: October 2019
FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager
Rating: 4.5 / 5 I kicked off October with a very seasonally appropriate pick, FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager. This book is an homage to the slasher movies that always make the rounds on TV around Halloween so it seemed the perfect time to finally check this one off on my TBR. Quincy has made… Continue reading FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager
THE LOST NIGHT by Andrea Bartz
Rating: 4 / 5 I received a complimentary copy of THE LOST NIGHT by Andrea Bartz. Thank you to Crown Publishing and Andrea Bartz for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review. THE LOST NIGHT begins with Lindsay, a young woman who has built a seemingly good life for herself in present day… Continue reading THE LOST NIGHT by Andrea Bartz
THE CHESTNUT MAN by Søren Sveistrup
Rating: 4.5 / 5 THE CHESTNUT MAN by Søren Sveistrup was my Book of the Month pick for September and it is also our buddy read pick for the next meetup of the Southern California bookstagrammer group I'm a part of. I also wound up getting the audio from the library while I was reading… Continue reading THE CHESTNUT MAN by Søren Sveistrup
THE GRAND HOTEL by Vicki Baum
Rating: 3.5 / 5 I'm sharing an older title today, yet one that isn't what I typically think of as a classic either. The Reading Women reading challenge included a prompt to read a work of translated fiction originally published before 1945. This wound up being the most challenging prompt to fill for me and… Continue reading THE GRAND HOTEL by Vicki Baum
WELL MET by Jen DeLuca
Rating: 3.5 / 5 WELL MET by Jen DeLuca was selected as a buddy read pick with some friends on bookstagram so I was eager to join in. While I wouldn't say that contemporary romance is a genre comfort zone for me, I do like to pick up some lighter, fun rom-com reads once in… Continue reading WELL MET by Jen DeLuca
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
Rating: 5 / 5 This year's Popsugar Reading Challenge includes a prompt for a book based on a true story. For this one, I quickly selected BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate and was very excited to read it, but it kept getting pushed off until it wound up in my #stackofshame post. This… Continue reading BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROW by Erin A. Craig
Rating: 4.5 / 5 I heard a lot of good things about HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS by Erin A. Craig, so I was thrilled when it arrived in my Owlcrate Book Box in August along with some other seaworthy goodies! For a picture of all the box's contents, see below! This is definitely a… Continue reading HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROW by Erin A. Craig
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
Rating: 3 / 5 I added NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty to my TBR for September after seeing it announced as a buddy read on Instagram. It is a book that has been on my shelf for a while and fit well into my goal of reading books I already owned. I actually wound… Continue reading NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
AMERICAN ROYALS by Katharine McGee
Rating: 4 / 5 I was lucky to join in with a group of book friends on bookstagram for a buddy read of AMERICAN ROYALS by Katharine McGee. The author was even able to join us for our final chat which was a lot of fun! AMERICAN ROYALS is a YA novel which imagines life… Continue reading AMERICAN ROYALS by Katharine McGee