The Book Whisperers

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Sylvie moved away not long after her best friend was found in the lake and her father died, but now her mother has died and she has to come home to sort things. Soon after she sees Judith, Victoria's mother and she is shocked to find out that Sylvie has had a baby and named her Victoria. Judith mentions that she is working with Sam to find out what happened to Victoria. Soon Sylvie finds things spiraling out of control, and she feels like she is losing it. Her husband doesn't know where she is. She has run into another old mate Michelle, and is dodging Sam about the documentary. Sam is working to find out what happened to Victoria and soon finds out that she was walking alone that night. Plus she was supposed to meet up with her boyfriend. As he digs deeper, Sylvie tries harder to avoid the past, and stop her fall into madness. She finally decides that she needs to head home, a...

I won a copy of the ARC in a Goodreads Giveaway. Thank you to Atria books! Trigger Warning: Rape This is told from several points of view: Kate (barrister) Sophie (the wife) James (the politician) Ali (Kate's friend) and Holly (not going to say). Kate has just lost a case, a rape case because the defense managed to make the victim look bad and it really upsets her. Sophie has just found that her husband James was carrying on a affair with a woman he worked with named Olivia. James is arrested for rape and Sophie is reeling, but oddly enough Kate is ready to destroy him. Holly's introduced and she is a friend of Sophie's in college and has met James when she was dating him. That story is told in flashbacks while in the present the trial is going against Jame. I will leave that there, because saying too much will spoil things that are meant to be unveiled at just the right time. This was a great story talking about the problems of getting justice for rape vict...

Thank you to Netgalley and Crown Books for Young Readers for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Jessa has been asked by her ex-boyfriend's mother to pack his room. She isn't looking forward to it, but she hopes that she will be able to figure out what happened to him. Jessa can't believe his gone, and everyone blames her since the last place he was seen was at her track meet. As she begins to pack up his things and relives memories, soon she finds that he is hiding even more than she thought he was. Nothing is adding up. Even stranger she finds out that Max has gone through his stuff looking for money. He claims that Caleb stole over six hundred dollars from him. As she continues to show up and pack up Caleb's room, she faces the dislike of his mother, and she wonders why she blames her. But as Jessa follows each clue she finds she gets drawn deeper and deeper into something dangerous. I could not stop reading this, and I want to say so much...

Thank you to Netgalley and Alibi for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Dr. Iris Ballard is back and better than before like seriously, she is clean and rocking it again after Luke saved her life. She is finishing up her tour and preparing to go home to write her book, when her mother calls her crying. Her twin Billy has joined a cult and dropped off the grid. She is really worried. So Iris drops everything and heads back to Grey Mills. Where things just haven't changed much. However, Iris realizes that she has really caused a lot of pain for her family. Her decisions haven't made anyone happy. Plus she is starting to realize that she does feel something for Luke, but she isn't sure it is the best decision to make. As she begins to investigate the cult, she has to lie her way into the first house in order to gain information about the the farm that Billy is hiding out at. She almost gets entangled with two of the members and realizes that the people a...

I received an ARC of The Rift in exchange for a fair and balanced review. Since we pride ourselves on doing just that with all of our authors it seemed like a small price to pay for a chance to read this new story by S.L. Morgan and experience Ella Avery's story telling for the first time as well.  When I first started reading The Rift I was on the fence. I didn't hate it but I wasn't really into it either. I trust S. L. Morgan as an author so I hung in there and kept going..then a tragic accident befalls vain, shallow Cara and I swear I got whiplash at how fast this book turned itself around!!  Cara the main protagonist in the story is a stereotypical Malibu barbie character. Her life seems vain and shallow on the surface but underneath that she feels stifled by the coldness of her parents and the betrayal of her boyfriend Jeff. Needless to say Cara is confused about herself, her life, and even to some extent who her friends are. A tragic accident leaves her...

The Girl Who lived by Christopher Greyson   Thank you to Greyson Media and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Faith has finally been released from the hospital. She has an apartment, a probation officer, and a therapist all courtesy of her mother. Faith hasn't been dealing well with the murder of her father, her best friend, her best friend's mother, and her sister. Especially since the local police believe that her father murdered them all and then committed suicide. Faith has mostly accepted that, but she knows that her father didn't kill them. She saw the killer and she has seen him more than once. So when she heads out to get drunk and sees him again she is more determined to find him. Soon things start happening, her car is moved, someone breaks into her apartment. As Faith digs deeper and deeper, and everyone thinks she is losing it and then the murders happen. Faith realizes that someone is out to frame her. She has to figure th...

The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin Thank you Simon & Schuster and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. First off if you have read the The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and the other two books in the trilogy start there. You will understand who everyone is and who Mara and Noah are better if you read her trilogy before starting this one. I just finished this and I am still processing... I mean like I know Mara is bad, but she isn't and I love her and I am 100% on board with shipping Noah and Mara so I don't know how I feel, but I get why she did what she did. Normally I would say quite a bit more about what is going on in this book and then jump in with how I feel about it, but I wouldn't feel right spoiling any of this for Mara Dyer fans. I wasn't sure how I would feel about a book from Noah's perspective, but Michelle hit it out of the park. Just as dark and heart wrenching as the Mara trilogy. I think at this point I wi...

Haven by Mary Lindsey Thank you to Entangled Teen and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. I also want to say Thank you to Entangled Teen for the surprise Haven box. It was amazing. Rain has to move to New Wurzburg because his mother died and his Aunt Ruby is taking him in. Soon after he arrives there he meets Freddie and is immediately taken by her.  When she confesses to him that she believes her father was murder he is instantly drawn into her crazy world. Which isn't at all what it seems and Freddie isn't what she seem. Soon Rain realizes that New Wurzburg is hiding all kinds of secrets, and when he finds out that his father was Ruby's husband. He realizes that even his family has secrets. Can he keep Freddie alive while the unravel the mystery of her father's murder? Will his family secrets be the death of him? I know that I was super vague but upon looking at the synopsis for the story I realized the author doesn't want t...

The Other Twin by L.V. Hay Thank you to Netgalley and Orenda for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Poppy is in London when she gets that call that India, her sister has killed herself at the train station. Immediately Poppy returns home, and tries to understand what happened. The only thing she is sure of is that India didn't kill herself. So she falls back into her own life and tries to figure out what was going on in India's life, and the more she starts to unravel the more she begins to realize that she had no idea what was going with her sister. Then she runs into her old boyfriend Matt and she is drawn back to him. The deeper she digs the more she finds out and soon it is a race against time to uncover the truth before they catch up to her. I didn't know what to expect with this one. It is mostly told from Poppy's point of view, with some chapters told from a mysterious man's point of view. As things start to unfold you find out just...