Short & Sweet Review: Private India: City on Fire by James Patterson

Title: Private India: City on Fire Author: James Patterson Series: Private #8 Published: November 2014, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But…

View Post

Review: The Party by Robyn Harding

Title: The Party Author: Robyn Harding Published: June 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies. One invitation. A lifetime of regrets. Sweet sixteen. It’s an exciting coming of…

View Post

Review: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

Title: The Summer I Met Jack Author: Michelle Gable Published: May 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 448 pages Source: Publisher Summary: New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between JFK and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of…

View Post

Review: The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Title: The Death of Mrs. Westaway Author: Ruth Ware Published: May 2018, Gallery/Scout Press Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.  On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a…

View Post

Review: What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel (audio)

Title: What Lies Below Author: Barbara Taylor Sissel Narrator: Donna Postel Published: May 2018, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours, 12 minutes Source: Publisher Summary:  Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers…Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the…

View Post

Review: Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd

Title: Dead Girl Running Author: Christina Dodd Series: Cape Charade, #1 Published: April 2018, HQN Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Harlequin Publicity Team Summary: I have three confessions to make: 1. I’ve got the scar of gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don’t remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellen Adams…and that’s half a lie.  Girl running…from a year she can’t remember, from a husband…

View Post

Blog Tour & Review: Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank (audio)

Title: Same Beach, Next Year Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Published: Audio – May 2017, Harper Audio / Paperback – April 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Length: 9 hours 56 minutes / 400 pages Source: Audio – via Library / Paperback -Publisher via TLC Book Tours Summary:  New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage,…

View Post

Review: Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham

Title: Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After Author: Heather Harpham Published: August 2017, Henry Holt & Company Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny,…

View Post

Review: The Good Twin by Marti Green

Title: The Good Twin Author: Marti Green Published: May 2018, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC E-copy, 263 pages Source: Netgalley via Publicist Summary:  In Marti Green’s twisting novel of psychological suspense, twin sisters become engaged in a dangerous deception… Mallory Holcolm is an unfulfilled waitress and aspiring artist living in a Queens boardinghouse when she learns something astonishing about her past: she has an identical twin sister named Charly she…

View Post

Review: Every Single Secret by Emily Carpenter (audio)

Title: Every Single Secret Author: Emily Carpenter Narrator: Kate Orsini Published: May 2018, Brilliance Audio Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Source: Publisher Summary:  Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she’d found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they’ve kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath’s escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship. Determined to give their…

View Post

Review: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Title: Then She Was Gone Author: Lisa Jewell Published: April 2018, Atria Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Ten years after her teenage daughter goes missing, a woman connects with a charming single father, but she is still haunted by her child’s disappearance in this “deeply emotional and incredibly clever” (Mail Online) thriller from the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of I Found You. Ellie Mack was…

View Post

Review: Wicked River by Jenny Milchman

Title: Wicked River Author: Jenny Milchman Published: May 2018, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 464 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated, back country honeymoon seems ideal: a chance to start their lives together with an adventure, on their own.  But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own…

View Post

Review: I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi (audio)

Title: I Liked My Life Author: Abby Fabiaschi Narrator: Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, Therese Plummer Published: Audio – January 2017, Macmillan Audio / Print – May 2018, St. Martin’s Griffin Length: 9 hours, 47 minutes / 288 pages Source: Audio via library / Print – Paperback via GetRed PR Summary:  Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a…

View Post

Review: Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

Title: Our Kind of Cruelty Author: Araminta Hall Published: May 2018, MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary: This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy.…

View Post

Book Spotlight & Giveaway: The Book of Summer by Michelle Gable

Last year, I listened to The Book of Summer by Michelle Gable when it was first released in hardcover, and I really enjoyed it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Tomorrow the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. I also have 1 copy of the book to giveaway – be sure to read all the…

View Post

Review: The Way of Beauty by Camille Di Maio (audio)

Title: The Way of Beauty Author: Camille Di Maio Narrator: Meredith Starkman Published: May 2018, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length: 11 hours 41 minutes / 384 pages Source: Audio – Brilliance Audio / Print – Lake Union Publishing via Get Red PR Summary:  Hearts and dreams evolve in the shadow of the once-magnificent Penn Station. Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds…

View Post

Book Spotlight: The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews

Next week, Mary Kay Andrews’ latest novel, The High Tide Club, is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you will be reading this book 🙂 Title: The High Tide Club Author: Mary Kay Andrews Published: May 2018, St. Martin’s Press…

View Post

Month in Review: April 2018

Happy April!!! Well, we’ve moved out of our house…and now are living in temporary housing as we wait for the short sale to get approved for the house we really want to buy! Can I just tell you how much I hate packing? Thank goodness for audio books – they certainly were my savior during all the hours of packing!   Reading Stats:  Read this month: 18 Year to date:…

View Post