“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.” Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so… Continue reading Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
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This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
“Live your life for you, and no one else.” Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of… Continue reading This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
This was a book about WWII internment camps but from the perspective of the Japanese internment camps. Not necessarily a fresh take, but another look at how WWII affected this group of people. In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up… Continue reading The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
“I can't breathe for loving you and loving you is the only way I can breathe.” After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she's sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she's ready to get back on her feet.… Continue reading Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
This is the same author who wrote Winne the Pooh. This is Milne's whodunit. It's short and easy to read locked room mystery. I originally wanted to read this because this one of the books pointed to in Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson. But this was sent to me by a postal book club… Continue reading The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
The Library Of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
This is the book you want to hug when you're done reading it. This has a little of everything: book about books, romance, mystery, and dual time lines. This one starts out with librarian Chloe Sampson and her struggles as she is now raising her siblings. Her mom left and she was informed that there… Continue reading The Library Of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
“Bumpier journeys lead to better destinations. You. Me. We’re the best destination of all.” Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to their small town. When Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate,… Continue reading Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
This is book #2 in the Alex Stern Series (Ninth House) and I went into this one expecting a tidy resolution....not sure that was realistic. If you know Leigh Bardugo, she is the queen of unresolved! Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make… Continue reading Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
“It's not selfish to want something for yourself. It's human.” Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong,… Continue reading Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.” Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body… Continue reading The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton