The Book Whisperers

Thank you to Bloodhound Books and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Sophie has taken on a new position as a carer for Ivy. At first, she doesn't realize that meeting Ivy's grandson Max is going to change everything. But lately she is feeling like someone is watching her. As her relationship with both Ivy and Max deepens little does she know that is it is going to cause problems. Ivy doesn't like that Max is growing closer to Sophie. She is jealous of it and Max knows that this is dangerous. So Sophie is blindsided when Max fires her company as carers for Ivy. I know this is vague even by my standards, but there is a lot going on in this novel and I feel like revealing some things will take away from the story. That being said I also didn't like this novel as much as I thought I would. It was confusing because the story was told from a couple different points of views and alternated between first and third which added to the confusi

Thank you to Berkley and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Gemma is successful real estate agent with her own company. She is married with a young son, and is feeling the pangs of the housing market and her husband staying at home to raise their son. She heads off to London for a few days to attend a conference. She is surprised when she runs into David a potential client. She agrees to meet him for dinner and after too many glasses of wine she is feeling more than a little drunk. But when she wakes up in the morning she can't remember anything past the kiss at her hotel door. She puts it out of her mind and really doesn't think anything of it, until the receipt from the restaurant is mailed to her. Even then it all easy to dismiss until the picture arrives, and the instagram messages. She hasn't said a word to Joe, but now she afraid of what happened or what she can't remember and all the lies she has told him. She decides to go t

Thank you to Berkley and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Jack and Syd say this whole story started with a house, one that Jack wasn't that in love with especially since they would have to sort out the old owner's stuff. But Jack wants to make Syd happy and there is something she loves about the house. However, strange things begin to occur after they move in, Jack doesn't tell Syd at the time but upon investigating the source of a smell he finds a dead cat and a box of stuff that was a young girl's. He thinks it is strange because the cat clearly had it's legs broken, but when talking about with his friend he decides that he is thinking of it too much. Syd meanwhile begins to befriend Eloise, the young girl across the street. Syd also suspects that Eloise is not having a good childhood. When Eloise's father catches them and then attacks Jack on the street. Syd is forced to stop communication with her. The strange things wi

Thank you to Killer Reads and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Joey has just moved to Arizona, and while out taking a walk with his German Shepard Bandit he comes across three teenagers tormenting a boy in the creek. Joey decides to stand up for him and starts a whole chain of events. He and Bobby soon become friends with Tara and Jim, also outcasts. When the group has another altercation with the teenagers they make the decision to tell their parents. Once the parents are involved the call the police. Only it turns out that one of the teenagers is the son of the Sheriff. The Sheriff makes a call on the house to threaten them and is humiliated by Joey's parents. Later the Sheriff attacks Bobby and Joey, and they are saved by Tara and Jim. They decide to call themselves the Outsiders club, but when they discover what is hidden in an abandoned car it will change their lives forever. I don't even know what happened or how I feel. Maybe thos

Thank you to Entangled: Embrace and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Lyla has hit a rough patch, it has been a few months since her boyfriend broke up with her, and her roommates have decided to set her her but when she overhears him call her boring and fugly, Lyla gets upset and heads to her best friend Beck's place to come with a plan. Beck is in the middle of sealing the deal when Lyla arrives, but he puts it all aside to help her out. Lyla makes plans to change her look and comes up with a list, and with Beck's help she begins to change things. At the end of the first week she has knocked out 3 of the six things on her list. She decides to add a number seven. As she is tackling the second half of her list, Beck stumbles across her new list. Soon all he can thinking about is number seven. Mind blowing sex... and he wonders if he can help Lyla knock that off her list. As things progress between Lyla and Beck suddenly they are in strange