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All the Missing Girls

3 / 31 / 213 / 28 / 21
All the Missing GirlsAll the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Published by Simon and Schuster on June 28, 2016
Genres: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Coming of Age
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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three-half-stars

***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
A New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” Entertainment Weekly — Thriller Round-Up The Wall Street Journal — 5 Killer Books for 2016 Hollywood Reporter — Hot Summer Books…16 Must Reads
“This thriller’s all of your fave page-turners (think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl) rolled into one.” —TheSkimm
“Both [Gillian] Flynn’s and Miranda’s main characters also reclaim the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fatale… All the Missing Girls is set to become one of the best books of 2016.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Extremely interesting…a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Are you paying attention? You’ll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it’s a page-turner to boot.” —Elle
Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.
Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

Hello!
I’m back again for yet another book review. I know it may seem like only book reviews when you come here, but at least you know that I’m out of reading slump and trying very hard to make my reading goal for the year.

As you can tell from the title, I recently finished reading All the Missing Girls. I found randomly pick this book up from our library book sale. I didn’t find that much on the first run, but since the book sale is being as a pop-up used bookstore this year, Matt and I might end up going back.

Every now and then I am attracted I am attracted to thrillers and suspense books, though they are never my go to book. I enjoyed the story telling aspect of this book how the author told the story forward from when Nicolette got to town and then backward from the days, while she was in town as if remembering what happened and then forward again realizing everything that happened. It was a bit confusing to follow at first, but once you figured out what was happening it was easier to figure out.

The book was an enjoyable read and I liked it, but I didn’t especially love it and wouldn’t recommend it. I hope that you will stay tuned for more book reviews and other things I decide to post. See you soon!

three-half-stars
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The light we lost

2 / 4 / 211 / 31 / 21
The light we lostThe Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
Published by Penguin on 2018
Genres: Fiction, Women
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
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five-stars

The New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
"This love story between Lucy & Gabe spans decades and continents as two star-crossed lovers try to return to each other...Will they ever meet again? This book kept me up at night, turning the pages to find out, and the ending did not disappoint."--Reese Witherspoon
"One Day meets Me Before You meets your weekender bag."--The Skimm
"Extraordinary."--Emily Giffin
He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last?

Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story--their story--at the very beginning.
Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. Together, they decide they want their lives to mean something, to matter. When they meet again a year later, it seems fated--perhaps they'll find life's meaning in each other. But then Gabe becomes a photojournalist assigned to the Middle East and Lucy pursues a career in New York. What follows is a thirteen-year journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, betrayals, and, ultimately, of love. Was it fate that brought them together? Is it choice that has kept them away? Their journey takes Lucy and Gabe continents apart, but never out of each other's hearts.
This devastatingly romantic debut novel about the enduring power of first love, with a shocking, unforgettable ending, is Love Story for a new generation."It's the epic love story of 2017."--Redbook

Hello!
I’m back with another book review. Thankfully I have been in a reading mood and have been whipping through books like the wind lately. This book was no different. I had picked this book several years ago, but have never gotten around to reading it.
I finally decided to pick up this week and I pretty much flew through it. I enjoyed that the chapters were short and the whole story felt as if it were unfolding in real time like a sitcom story that neatly gets wrapped up in 30 minutes to an hour. I let myself take a bit longer to read it though because of the heavy underlining backdrop of September 11th and the years that followed.

As someone that lived through this time period at around the same ages as Lucy and Gabriel were in the story I could relate to parts of their story, more to Lucy than to Gabriel. This story dredged up some strange and strong memories surrounding that time that will stick with me.

I would definitely recommend reading it. It was a beautiful love story that kept me wanting to find out more. I enjoyed how Lucy acknowledged that she loved both Gabriel and Darren though it wasn’t the same kind of love. I loved the twist and turns of the ending that acknowledges all the different sides of Lucy

five-stars
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Strange Weather in Tokyo

1 / 12 / 211 / 11 / 21
Strange Weather in TokyoStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Published by Counterpoint Press on November 1, 2017
Genres: Fiction, Literary, Women, Urban
Pages: 189
Format: Paperback
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four-stars

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.

Hello!
Well, this wasn’t really the way I wanted to come back to the blog in the new year, but here we are. I promise at some point there will be a full rundown of what’s been happening in my neck of the woods lately, which honestly during the pandemic hasn’t been much.

Let’s get back to the reason that we’re really here. I finished my first book of the year officially. It’s Hiromi Kawakami’s Strange weather in Tokyo. It’s a translated book which I think that though the book is well translated it loses a bit from Japanese to English. It’s a beautiful story of Tsukiko in her life during her 30s, where she experiences a relatively lonely life when she meets her old teacher “Sensei” at a bar one night and then after they soon begin a strange relationship of talking and relating to each other.

I found the book lovely in the way it related Tsukiko’s lonely life and the way she longed for conversations with Sensei throughout the story because he continued to challenge her way of thinking.

Let me know if you have read this book or plan to read this in the future. Also I have been getting an abnormal number of followers lately on Goodreads and though I am no longer officially People are still trying to follow me. If you would like to see my book updates before they go live here check me out on BookHype. I hope to see you all very soon with a more proper update and all the new things that might be coming here.

four-stars
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Happily At Christmas

12 / 21 / 2012 / 21 / 20
Happily At ChristmasHappily This Christmas by Susan Mallery
Published by HQN Books on September 29, 2020
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Holiday, Contemporary, Small Town & Rural, General
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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four-stars

Treat yourself this Christmas by staying in with this holiday read!
Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool’s Gold romances, proves there’s no place like Happily Inc for the holidays…
There’s no place like Happily Inc for the holidays…
Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door—local cop Garrick McCabe. She’s a strong, independent woman who can’t help dreaming what-if about a man she barely knows. Until he needs her help…
Garrick’s pregnant daughter will be home for Christmas, and his house needs a woman’s touch. Garrick and his little girl were tight once and he’s hoping a small-town Christmas will bring her back to him. But thawing his daughter’s frosty attitude will take more than a few twinkle lights. Maybe sharing the holiday with Wynn and her son will remind her of the joy of family.
As the season works its magic on these wounded souls, Wynn realizes it’s time to stop punishing herself for a painful secret, while Garrick remains haunted by the ghosts of past mistakes. Will he allow Wynn to open the only gift she truly wants—his heart?
Don’t miss Susan Mallery’s most irresistible novel yet, The Vineyard at Painted Moon, and join one woman as she searches for the perfect blend of love, family and wine.
Read more in the reader-favorite Happily Inc series:Book 1: You Say It FirstBook 2: Second Chance GirlBook 3: Why Not TonightBook 4: Not Quite Over YouBook 5: Meant to Be YoursBook 6: Happily This Christmas

Hey!
It’s been a while since I have written a book review here, honestly these past couple of weeks in real life have been crazy. I’ve been missing the real world super hard since the world hasn’t been participating very well in the pandemic as of lately. I can’t wait to get back to actually seeing and hanging out with people again. Let’s get back to the real reason to why you are here.

To celebrate the season I have only read one serious holiday book this season. This book was Happily At Christmas: Happily Inc. This book is a typical lovely romance which you are looking for a light fluffy quick holiday read. Let me know what you have been reading this holiday season and other books that you would recommend. Also if you have any book clubs that you would like to recommend I would love to hear about them.

four-stars
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Night Shift

12 / 4 / 2011 / 29 / 20
Night ShiftNight Shift by Charlaine Harris
Published by Ace Books on 2016
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, Urban, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, General
Pages: 308
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three-stars

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels--"the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"*--comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day... At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. For if all hell breaks loose--which just might happen--it will put the secretive town on the map, where no one wants it to be.."--

Hello!
I am back again with yet another book review, you know for those you who want a more in-depth review than what my instagram says. This book is the last book in the Midnight Texas series. If you haven’t read my reviews on Midnight Crossroad or Day shift please feel free to read them. This novel refers to some of the incidents that have happened in previous novels especially referencing Olivia’s backstory.

I had originally got into the book series because Marine Goldberg had talked about the books after the books became a short lived series on NBC. It’s now available on Hulu in case you still want to watch it. The series finisher in me, enjoyed that I was finally able to complete all the novels in the Midnight Texas series and I was also excited to find out more about Manfred and Olivia’s backstory.

We did also learn a little bit more about Chuy & Joe, but not much. I won’t spoil the book for you since I would definitely recommend reading it if you are a series finisher or if you are a fan of the tv show. I would love to have another novel in the series that talks more about Chuy & Joe and how they ended up in Midnight. I also loved the thought of town where all the weird strangers some with powers and some with strange backstories all come to live together.

I hope that you enjoyed this short review and hopefully I will see you again in another post.

three-stars
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