The Book Whisperers

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas My rating: 5 of 5 stars S.J.Maas Crescent City This is a review of the most recent novel published by the author S.J. Maas. This most recent work by Sarah J. Maas has received many mixed reviews by the readers of her work. This is not unusual as one thing that Maas does quite well is spin and weave a tale completely different from the ones before it. Often times an author writes one genre of books in a certain vein and doesn’t veer too far off from the established path. However; Maas has never been one of those authors. Her Throne of Glass series, her first published work, garnered her a following of readers that clamored for more. Maas was already plotting her next series A Court of Thorns and Roses and many readers, like myself, were stalking that first novel online at Goodreads like hounds on a sent. If you are like me and you’ve read both of these series you know that they share only surface commonalities. Both series feature the Fae and...

Thank you to Netgalley and St.Martin's Press for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Rachel is a podcaster on her way to Neapolis to cover the trial of Scott Blair. He has been accused of raping a 16 year old girl. However, before she even arrives she stops at a rest stop and when she comes out she finds a letter. A handwritten letter addressed to her asking for her help to find out who murdered Hannah's sister. Rachel is worried and intrigued.  As she follows the trial and dives deep into what happened between K and Scott Blair, she also finds more letters slowly filling her in on what happened all those years ago to Jenny Still. In a town divided, and one unwilling to even acknowledge that Jenny was murdered, will Rachel end up over her head. Told in 2 viewpoints and one from the podcast, This book goes back and forth between the present and past. Takes an unvarnished look at rape and what it is like for person to have to press charges and face th...