The Book Whisperers

Don't Tell A Soul by M. William Phelps Thank you to Netgalley and Kensington for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Let me start by saying it has been quite awhile since I have read a True Crime book, in fact I had forgotten this was a true crime and thought I was reading a work of fiction. Yes laugh because the whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking this reads like a True Crime... Well that's because it is. My only mild complaint is the lack of pictures, and the cover makes it seem like another genre. However, it is the compelling straight forward account of the murder of Cherry Walker. A black woman with a mental handicap that got involved with the wrong woman. Cherry was a sweet woman who recently had begun living on her own with assistance, and she meets Kim through her neighbor. Being the kind of woman she is, she agrees to help babysit Kim's young son. Soon she is watching him all the time, and it becomes clear to Cherry's caseworke...

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller Thank you to Netgalley and Feiwel & Friends for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Alosa is the daughter of the Pirate King and she is on a mission. When Draxon and Riden board her (fake ) ship she hides herself among the crew and only reveals herself after they have surrendered. She then negotiates rather well to get her crew released and all of her stuff moved over to their ship. She is looking for a map and she will do whatever it takes to find that map. No matter how handsome Riden is. She spends night after night breaking of her cell looking for this map. She keeps getting caught by Riden, and even when her father's man reveals himself to her, she refuses to take any help. For Riden is right she is hiding a great many things, the least of which is the location to her father's keep. When another pirate steals her from Draxon, she knows things are deeper than she expected. There are many players i...

Review of I See You by Clare Mackintosh Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Zoe is a normal Londoner going about her daily business when she catches a picture in the adverts that takes her by surprise. Her picture, but she puts it out of her mind when she brings it up to her family and they aren't for sure it is her, until she sees and recognizes another picture. She then contacts Kelly and informs her of a crime and the pictures. PC Kelly is a disgraced police officer working at the BTP, while looking into theft and possible connection between Zoe, the other woman, Zoe contacts her again this time with a picture in the adverts and a recent murder. PC Kelly then takes it to the murder squad and attempts to get on the case. Zoe is getting more and more paranoid especially after she trips and almost falls in front of a train. When she sees the man who saved her twice more after the rescue she begins to feel like she is lo...

City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson I won a copy of this book through Goodreads. Thanks to G.P. Putnam's Son for the copy. Tina is a ghost she doesn't exist because if you exist you might get caught. Tina is thief and working with the Goonda's in Sanguai's City, she has been with them since the death of her mother five years before.  She has goals dirt, money and blood in that order. Revenge on the man who murdered her mother. When the Goonda's use her to break into the Greyhill compound which is the first step Dirt, she is getting the dirt on Roland Greyhill and bonus he is the man who murdered her mother. But before she can finish stealing the information she is caught by his son. When Michael makes a deal with her to find out who really murdered her mother in exchange for the information she stole from his father, Tina's too intrigued not to take the deal. She ropes her friend Boyboy into the situation and they are off and running. B...

Review of Gilded Cage by Vic James Thank you to Netgalley and Del Ray for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. This is an alternative reality, in this world, there are Equals (Peers or Lords) with skills (magic) and commoners. Every commoner must serve 10 years as a slave. It is told from several points of views the most predominant ones are from the Hadley's (commoners) and Jardine's (Equals).  Abi is a Hadley and she and her parents have arranged for them to enter service all together as a family at the Jardine's estate. However, when they are set to leave they find that Luke (her brother) is not going with them despite the law against children under 18 serving away from their parents. He is being sent to a slavetown Millmoor. As Abi and the rest of her family arrive at Jardine's estate, they find that Daisy is to be taking care of the young daughter of Garvar (the Heir) and soon they forge a friendship based on the love he has for his daughter ...