When I started reading this book, I wasn't expecting anything special. Actually, I wasn't even planning on reviewing it. However, once I was a few chapters in, I knew this would be a book I would want…
Lisa Harris' Southern Crimes series has two books with a third on the way. Fatal Exchange is the second book and the plot was solid and gratifying. After reading the first novel …
Sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello and her cousin Claire Linnehan have never been told they’re adopted. They have different birthdays and are in different grades in school. However, when her science clas…
When the police break down the door of the house where high school junior, Christina Lattimore, is being held by kidnappers, she thinks her ordeal is over. But it’s only the beginning; the police, her…
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick is contemporary young adult fiction that starts with a thriller feel and ends channeling a little bit of Wait Until Dark. Mr. Sedgwick does an o…
This creative non-fiction book had just the right amount of believability mixed with the unbelievable. Not having dealt with paranoid schizophrenia personally, I was incredulous at the things the auth…
Having never read a book by Jhumpa Lahiri, I had no idea what I would be in for when I started reading her newest novel. I had heard a lot of high-praise for it, but kept putting off dedicating time t…
Several months ago, I read the book Waiting to Be Heard which chronicles the story of Amanda Knox. I was intrigued by her testimony of her innocence. So when I read a blurb about a new book …
The Night Guest is a beautiful book, inside and out. If a glance at the bright cover doesn't get you to read this book, the synopsis should. Everyone knows someone who is elderly and that ol…
Angels & Demons is Dan Brown’s first book containing Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist. Langdon seems to find himself in a high-energy, extremely dangerous, historically base…
Amusement parks have always held a bit of wonder for me. I was instantly attracted to Stephen King's new novel, Joyland, when I saw it was about a young man who works at an amusement park. I woul…
This book came highly recommended by one of my students, and it was an intriguing, original story. The first third dragged, but it picked up considerably after that. By the end, I couldn't put it down…
