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Book Review: A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders
May 26, 2015
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Summary: It's just another day at the office for London book editor Samantha "Sam" Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort is utterly unpublishable, lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will dish the juicy dirt on a recent fashion industry scandal. Little does she know the trouble Kit's book will cause-before it even goes to print. When police Inspector Field turns up at the venerable offices of Timmins & Ross, asking questions about a package addressed to Sam, she knows something is wrong. Now Sam's nine-to-five life is turned upside down as she finds herself propelled into a criminal investigation. Someone doesn't want Kit's manuscript published and unless Sam can put the pieces together in time, they'll do anything to stop it.
Book Review: The Runaway Countess by Amanda McCabe
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publisher: Harlequin
Summary: In Society's eyes, Hayden Fitzwalter, Earl of Ramsay and Jane Bancroft have the perfect marriage. But what can't be seen are the secrets hidden behind closed doors. Believing Hayden will never renounce his dissolute ways, Jane flees to her family's dilapidated estate in the country. Three years later & faced with an official dissolution of their union, Hayden now longs to win back the only woman who has ever touched his heart. But first he has to convince her that this rogue is ready to be tamed.
#finishedreading last night. #unspeakable by #carolinepignat good story centered around young woman who survives the foundering in May 1914 of #rmsempressofireland in the #stlawrenceriver #bookstagram #bibliophile #books #historicalfiction #weekendreads #empressofireland #shipwreck #canadianfiction #reads
May 23, 2015
Book Review: Unspeakable: Book 1 by Caroline Pignat
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Publisher: Razorbill
Summary: On her first voyage as a stewardess aboard the Empress of Ireland, Ellie is drawn to the solitary fire stoker who stands by the ship’s rail late at night, often writing in a journal.
Jim. Ellie finds it hard to think of his name now. After their wonderful time in Quebec City, that awful night happened. The screams, the bodies, the frigid waters … she tries hard to tell herself that he survived, but it’s hard to believe when so many didn’t. So when Wyatt Steele, journalist at The New York Times asks her for her story, Ellie refuses. But when he shows her Jim’s journal, she jumps at the chance to be able to read it herself, to find some trace of the man she had fallen in love with, or perhaps a clue to what happened to him. There’s only one catch: she will have to tell her story to Steele and he’ll “pay” her by giving her the journal, one page at a time.
Book Review: Bradstreet Gate by Robin Kirman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publisher: Crown
Summary: Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Though his guilt or innocence remains uncertain, the unsettling questions raised by the case force the three friends to take a deeper look at their tangled relationship. Their bond has been defined by the secrets they’ve kept from one another—Charlie’s love and Alice’s envy, Georgia’s mysterious affair—and over the course of the next decade, as they grapple with the challenges of adulthood and witness the unraveling of a teacher's once-charmed life, they must reckon with their own deceits and shortcomings, each desperately in search of answers and the chance to be forgiven.
Book Review: The Red Book of Primrose House (A Potting Shed Mystery) by Marty Wingate
May 19, 2015
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publisher: Alibi
Summary: Pru Parke has her dream job: head gardener at an eighteenth-century manor house in Sussex. The landscape for Primrose House was laid out in 1806 by renowned designer Humphry Repton in one of his meticulously illustrated Red Books, and the new owners want Pru to restore the estate to its former glory—quickly, as they’re planning to showcase it in less than a year at a summer party.
Book Review: Those Girls by Lauren Saft
May 17, 2015
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publisher: Poppy
Summary: Junior year, the suburbs of Philadelphia. Alex, Mollie and Veronica are those girls: they're the best of friends and the party girls of the school. But how well does everybody know them--and really, how well do they know one another? Alex is secretly in love with the boy next door and has joined a band--without telling anyone. Mollie suffers from a popular (and possibly sociopathic) boyfriend, as well as a serious mean streak. And Veronica just wants to be loved--literally, figuratively, physically....she's not particular. Will this be the year that bonds them forever....or tears them apart for good?
Lauren Saft masterfully conveys what goes on in the mind of a teenage girl, and her debut novel is raw, honest, hilarious, and thought-provoking, with a healthy dose of heart.
Book Review: The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Summary: Imogen and her friends have had their fill of budget holidays, cattle-class flights and 6 a.m. offensives for a space by the pool.
So when one of the group wins a VIP holiday at Barcelona's hippest new hotel, they plan to sip champagne with the jet set, party with the glitterati and switch off in surroundings of unapologetic luxury.
But as they mingle with movie stars, mafia bosses and millionaires, it becomes clear - with riotous consequences - that even in the most glamorous of locations, things can go wrong. Very wrong . . .
Book Review: Alive by Scott Sigler
May 8, 2015
Alive by Scott SiglerMy rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Summary: A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Fighting her way free brings little relief—she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people…and no answers.
She knows only one thing about herself—her name, M. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin—yet she finds herself in charge. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Now, if they’re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another.
Book Review: You by Caroline Kepnes
May 3, 2015
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Summary: When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
#upallnight #reading #You by #CarolineKepnes #bookstagram I can't believe Showtime optioned this for a series! I'll have to binge watch it like I did #TheAffair. And joy of joys, there's to be a sequel to this coming out this year! I didn't realize this was a series when it came out. I requested it on #netgalley & entered every giveaway I could but alas, I never won a copy. So, I did what I usually do in such instances, I bought it (srsly, tired of library wait list) & it hasn't disappointed! #bibliophile #books #readstagram #fiction #novels #bookish #booklove #crazyinmycoffee #bookaddict
May 1, 2015
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