Review: The Address by Fiona Davis

Title:The Address Author:Fiona Davis Published:August 2017, Dutton Books Format:ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source:Publisher Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota, New York City’s most famous residence. After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more…

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Review: Come Sundown by Nora Roberts (audio)

Title:Come Sundown Author:Nora Roberts Narrator:Elisabeth Rodgers Published:May 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:17 hours 17 minutes Source:Publisher A saga of love, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession… The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in Jul 28

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   So I challenged myself to walk a minimum of 100 miles this month – and while the month isn’t quite over, I’m psyched that I already hit the goal as of Friday!!! And to think, I wasn’t even training for a race 😉  I think this is something that I will definitely do again,…

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Review: Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt

Title:Shadow Girl Author:Gerry Schmitt Series:Afton Tangler Thriller, #2 Published:August 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Author The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree…   Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing…

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#SRC2017 Book Review: The Captain’s Daughter by Meg Mitchell Moore (audio)

Title:The Captain’s Daughter Author:Meg Mitchell Moore Narrator:Coleen Marlo Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Doubleday Books Length:11 hours 11 minutes / 304 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could…

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Review: The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter (audio)

Title:The Weight of Lies Author:Emily Carpenter Narrator:Kate Orsini Published:June 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:11 hours 58 minutes Source:Publisher In this gripping, atmospheric family drama, a young woman investigates the forty­-year­-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and uncovers devastating truths—and dangerous lies. Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of…

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Review: It Happens All the Time by Amy Hatvany (audio)

Title:It Happens All the Time Author:Amy Hatvany Narrator:Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne Published:March 2017, Simon & Schuster Audio / Atria Books Length:10 hours 2 minutes / 320 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / ARC E-copy – Netgalley via Publisher I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong. Amber Bryant and Tyler Hicks have been best…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (audio)

Title:The Almost Sisters Author:Joshilyn Jackson Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:July 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Length:12 hours 39 minutes /352 pages Source:Audio – personal copy via Audible / ARC Paperback -Publisher via TLC Book Tours With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality—the…

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Review: The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Title:The Lying Game Author:Ruth Ware Published:July 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher   From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware’s chilling new novel. On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before…

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Review: Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams

Title:Cocoa Beach Author:Beatriz Williams Published:June 2017, William Morrow Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher The author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rum runners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in Jul 21

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   I found this new yoga app, Asana Rebel, that I downloaded and I’ve been doing some of their workouts here and there. I really like it – they are short, easy yoga flows and the instructions are easy to follow. I am just using the free version for now and there are enough flows…

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#SRC2017 Book Spotlight: American Family by Catherine Marshall-Smith

Title:American Family Author:Catherine Marshall-Smith Published:June 2017, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 360 pages   Richard and Michael, both three years sober, have just decided to celebrate their love by moving in together when Richard driven by the desire to do the right thing for his ten-year-old-daughter, Brady, whom he has never met impulsively calls his former father-in-law to connect with her. With that phone call, he jeopardizes the one good thing…

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Review: Bring Her Home by David Bell

Title:Bring Her Home Author:David Bell Published:July 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 464 pages  Source:Netgalley via Publisher   In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father’s worst nightmare…. Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Summer, and her…

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#SRC2017 Book Review: Eden by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg (audio)

Title:Eden Author:Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg Narrator:Marnye Young Published:May 2017, Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg / She Writes Press Length:9 hours 56 minutes / 336 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via Publisher Becca Meister Fitzpatrick—wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community—is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this…

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Review: The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

Title:The Breakdown Author:B.A. Paris Published:July 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind;…

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Review: Last Breath by Robert Bryndza (audio)

Title:Last Breath Author:Robert Bryndza Series:Detective Erika Foster, #4 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:April 2017, Bookouture Length:9 hours 5 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in Jul 14

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   I seem to have found a good routine and it is working…good workouts, good meals, and I’m feeling good – so I must be doing something right!!! We leave for our beach vacation in 3 weeks and I am really looking forward to it. I just hope the weather cooperates 🙂     July…

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#SRC2017 Book Spotlight: A Work of Art by Micayla Lally

Title:A Work of Art Author:Micayla Lally Published:May 2017, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 256 pages   Letting go after her abrupt break-up with Samson is harder than Julene thought it would be, especially since her ex has wasted no time in burying himself in the local dating scene. But during an extended visit to her parents overseas, Julene rediscovers her love of art, and a burgeoning career develops. Samson, on the…

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Review: The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis (audio)

Title:The Dollhouse Author:Fiona Davis Narrator:Tavia Gilbert Published:August 2016, Penguin Audio Length:9 hours 53 minutes Source:Library Fiona Davis’s stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret…

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Review: The Child by Fiona Barton

Title:The Child Author:Fiona Barton Published:June 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 36 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher   The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles…

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#SRC2017 Book Review: Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave

Title:Hello, Sunshine Author:Laura Dave Published:July 2017, Simon & Schuster Format:ARC E-book, 256 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher   From Laura Dave—the author of the “addictive” (Us Weekly), “winning” (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes—comes a new novel about the secrets we keep…even from ourselves. Sunshine Mackenzie has it all…until her secrets come to light. Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream—she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a…

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Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager

Title:Final Girls Author:Riley Sager Published:July 2017, Dutton Books Format:Hardcover, 352 pages Source:Publisher Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority…

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Short & Sweet Review: The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg (audio)

Title:The Drowning Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #6 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:September 2015, Blackstone Audio Length:13 hours 13 hours Source:Personal copy via Audible Christian Thydell’s dream has come true: his debut novel, The Mermaid, is published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever? When crime writer Erica Falck, who discovered Christian’s talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in Jul 7

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   It was a good week, exercise-wise. My cold is gone – though my allergies have been awful! I’ve been playing around with my food intake – I’m really trying to eat as clean as I can. I don’t eat a lot of processed food and I no longer drink any soda, so that’s good.…

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Review: Blood Always Tells by Hilary Davidson (audio)

Title:Blood Always Tells Author:Hilary Davidson Narrator:Kirsten Potter Published:April 2014, Dreamscape Media, LLC / Forge Books Length:9 hours 6 minutes / 320 pages Source:Library / Publisher   Dominique Monaghan just wanted to get even with her two-timing, married boyfriend, a washed-up boxer stuck in a toxic marriage to a dangerously spoiled socialite. However, an elaborate blackmail scheme soon lands her in the middle of an unexpected kidnapping… and attempted murder. But who…

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#SRC2017 Book Spotlight: A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly

Title:A Game of Ghosts Author:John Connolly Series:Charlie Parker, #15 Published:July 2017, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Hardcover, 464 books   Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another “superb fusion of noir and the supernatural” (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track…

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Review: Girl Last Seen by Nina Laurin (audio)

Title:Girl Last Seen Author:Nina Laurin Narrator:Vanessa Johansson Published:June 2017, Hachette Audio Length:8 hours 11 minutes Source:Publisher   Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart. Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots. I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Light in Summer by Mary McNear

Title:The Light in Summer Author:Mary McNear Series:Butternut Lake, #5 Published:June 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 366 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary McNear brings you home to Butternut Lake and a novel filled with irresistible characters who you will want to call your friends. It’s summertime on Butternut Lake, where the heat of noon is soothed by the cool breezes…

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Review: The Space Between Sisters by Mary McNear

Title:The Space Between Sisters Author:Mary McNear Series:Butternut Lake, #4 Published:June 2016, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher Return to Butternut Lake with the newest from Mary McNear, whose heartfelt and powerful stories have made her a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Here, the complicated bonds of sisterhood are tested, long-kept secrets are revealed, and love is discovered…all during one unforgettable summer at the lake. Two…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Everything We Left Behind by Kerry Lonsdale

Tomorrow, Everything We Left Behind, the latest book by Kerry Lonsdale comes out and I’m super excited about this one. This is the sequel to her book, Everything We Keep – which I loved!!! I’ll be listening to this book – I’m just waiting for my copy of the audio book to arrive and then once it does, and I have time to listen to it, I’ll be posting my…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in Jun 30

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   Despite having a summer cold this past week, it was still a pretty good week. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do anything too strenuous, but I still got my walks in, albeit a bit slower than normal, but better than nothing. Luckily the cold seems to have passed and I think I can get back to…

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Month in Review: June 2017

Goodbye June…Hello July!!! I can’t believe this year is already half over…it’s flying by! I still have so many books sitting on my shelf just waiting to be read and yet more and more keep being added. I need a time machine to stop time so I can read for days at a time but not really lose any time – anybody want to get on that for me? Well,…

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