book review | She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena🧳 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Albany, New York 🏢 Bryden and Sam seem to be the perfect couple and have a perfect life. Until one day Bryden suddenly disappears from their luxury condo — leaving behind her car, phone, and keys. Their perf

book review | I Did Warn Her by Sian Gilbert 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: middle of the Atlantic Ocean 🐠 The Ophelia, a billionaire yacht, sets sail on a weeklong Atlantic crossing. Sasha takes a last minute job as a stewardess. The five of them look shockingly identical. The Ophelia isn’t

book review | Beyond The Wire by James D. Shipman 🔥 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland 🇵🇱 This novel is inspired by the real-life uprising in 1944 of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (A Sonderkommando was a special unit of prisoner forced labor. It was thei

book review | She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica 🌉 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Chicago 🏙️ Meghan Michaels, an ICU nurse, becomes entangled in a mystery involving one of her patients. A girl named Caitlin arrives in a coma having fallen from a bridge onto train tracks. But then a witness come

book review | Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera 🔪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Plumpton, Texas 🤠 Lucy is suspected of murdering her best friend, Savvy, after being found covered in her blood. The only problem is — she has no memory of what happened. Years later, a popular true crime podcaste

book review | Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison ⛷️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Vail, Colorado 🌨️ Competitive skiier, Mindy Wright, suffers a terrible downhill crash. During surgery, doctors discover she has a severe case of leukemia. A stem cell transplant is the only option. But when her par

book review | The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley 🧪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Bishop’s Lacey, 1950s English countryside 🌳 A beloved puppeteer, Rupert Porson, is murdered during a performance. His death seems connected to a past tragedy. Precocious and chemistry lovin

book review | Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham 🍺 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Rutledge College, South Carolina 🌺 Margot meets Lucy at the end of her freshman year of college and is immediately drawn to her. She soon finds herself living with Lucy and two other girls in an off-campus

book review | November 9 by Colleen Hoover 🧳 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: LA 🌴 & New York City 🌆 Fallon meets Ben the day before she is set to move across the country. Their immediate attraction leads them to spend the day together. They agree to meet once a year, on November 9th, with no

book review | Killman Creek by Rachel Caine 🚔 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Stillhouse Lake, TN 🛶 & on the run 🚗 This is the 2nd book in a series. It picks up almost immediately after the first book. I highly recommend reading them in order. Convicted serial killer, Melvin Royal, has

book review | Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak 🖼️ my rating: ⭐️✨ Setting: Spring Brook, New Jersey 🌳 Mallory Quinn takes a job nannying for a young boy named Teddy. Teddy begins drawing pictures that are increasingly disturbing. His artwork quickly evolves into sketches well beyond a five-

book review | Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson 🚁 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Heart Pond Island, Maine ⚓️ Abigail Baskin marries an extremely wealthy man, Bruce Lamb, and he whisks her away on a romantic honeymoon to a private island. But while on her bachelorette weekend she had a one-

book review | The Wedding Planner by Danielle Steel 💍 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: New York City 🌆 A successful wedding planner with a failed relationship history of her own. Faith Ferguson is an extremely successful wedding planner. She has sworn off marriage for herself after two fai

book review | Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney 📞 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: Scottish Islands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Grady Green calls his wife on her drive home to tell her some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, and then nothing else. Grady finds her car with the headlight

book review | The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Bishops Harbor, Connecticut 🌳 This is the 2nd book in the series. I highly recommend reading the books in order. This books begins less than a year after Jackson’s tax-evasion scandal. Amber is living

book review | Death By Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin by Sarah Graves 🍪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: Eastport, Maine ⚓️ The small picturesque town of Eastport is celebrating Halloween. Local celebrity, Hank Browne, is hosting a party at his ramshackle mansion. Bakery owners, Jake and Ellie, arrive j

book review | Too Old For This by Samantha Downing🩸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Baycliff, Oregon 🌲 Lottie Jones is a retired serial killer in her mid-seventies. She lives a quiet life of playing bingo and gossiping with her friends. Until one day a nosey journalist shows up at Lottie’s d

book review | The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore 🍁 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: Dream Harbor, Maine ⛵️ Jeanie inherits a cafe in a small town and jumps at the chance to leave her big city desk job. While in the new town she meets a local grumpy farmer, Logan. A predictable romcom unfolds

book review | The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna 🍁 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Norfolk, UK 🇬🇧 Mika Moon, one of the few witches in Britain feels very isolated and has to hide her powers. Her one defiance is that she has an online account where she posts preten

book review | Home Before Dark by Riley Sager🚪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: secluded woods in Vermont 🍁 Maggie Holt inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death — a house her father claimed is haunted and wrote a best selling book about. Maggie returns to Baneberry Hall for the first t