Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★ “That’s what’s beautiful and tragic about human beings—for better or for worse, not a single one can be replaced.”
Book Review – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★.5 Character Development: ★★ Enjoyment: ★ "But we all behaved badly in that house; not one of us got out of there without a black mark. I’ve come to accept our sins as survival strategies."
Book Review – If I Run by Terri Blackstock
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption."
Book Review – What Fresh Hell is This? by J.A.C Beardmore
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "She was literally staring Death in the face and Death looked more than a bit pissed off that she wasn't a pizza."
Book Review – Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "This was a perfect example of the now-frequent problem at the swimming hole... Locals usually try to work things out, while hard-partying tourists tend to do their own thing without much concern for anyone not in their group."
Book Review – Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Length: 270 pgs / 8hrs 3mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Books are time travel. True readers all know this."Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson The Story: Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are … Continue reading Book Review – Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Book Review – Treachery Times Two (Book 4)
Length: 336 pgs / n/a mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Get your rain slicker on 'cause shit is gonna come pouring down."Treachery Times Two by Robert McCaw The Story: On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery - unearthing the body of a woman … Continue reading Book Review – Treachery Times Two (Book 4)