The Book Whisperers

The Girl Who Wouldn't Die by Randall Platt Thanks to Sky Pony Press for a copy of this finished book in exchange for a fair review. Abra Goldstein is dead, well not really but she does have her own gravestone in the cemetery.  But don't call her Abra, just call her Arab and well don't call her a girl either. She knows from spending the last two years in Vienna that the Nazi's don't care for Jews or girls, and she plans to leave both behind and survive what is coming. So she returns home to Warsaw and resumes her street life. She avoids the ghetto and soon meets a mother who is hiding out in the cigarette factory she used to own. Arab comes up with the plan to have her make cigarettes and Arab will sell them. Arab carries on for more than a year with the scheme, making connections and friends even among the Nazi's, but soon she meets Otto and he changes everything. He dares her to think that she can save some of the Jewish children in Warsaw. As plans g...

Cold Summer by Gwen Cole Thank you to Sky Pony Press for sending me a copy of the book in exchange for a fair review... I don't even know where to begin I literally just finished this book and I couldn't stop reading it... So let's start at the beginning Kale has a secret, he time travels. For the last six months, he has only been going to one place WW II. He hasn't been the same since this starting happening. He has PTSD and is growing more and more withdrawn from his regular life and the people in it. Harper has known Kale almost all her life, but it has been a few years since she has seen him. She moved in with her Uncle Jasper and is ready to pick up her friendship with Kale. She knows that he leaves, but she made a promise many years ago to never ask so long as he promises to always come back. As soon as she sees Kale for the first time, she knows that something is different and she is torn by the promise she made and finding a way to help Kale. As Kale...

Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny by Cindi Madsen (Taking Shots #4) Thank you to Entangled and Netgalley for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Disclaimer I was unaware until I started reading this today that it was part of a series! That being said I don't feel like I was missing out on anything but picking this up on book 4, after reading it and loving it I will be going back to read 1-3! Lindsay is the editor of the school paper and reformed Puck Bunny when Ryder makes his way into her life. She has done everything she can to run away from and avoid falling into her former behavior. She is shocked when he offers to help tutor her in math and explains the math to her in such a way that she can actually understand it. Ryder doesn't understand why Lindsay keeps running away from, but the more he gets to know her the more he wants to be with her. As they continue to fight their feelings and her past, and his past will they be able to admit how they fee...

I interviewed Sara Wolf, I reviewed two of her books on the blog! She was so nice! Did you always want to be a writer? Ever since I turned twelve and discovered the magic of fanfiction, I've wanted to be a writer! Although, I think I wanted to be a vet sometime when I was very little. What inspires your writing? Other books, of course! I love reading, and seeing other writers write so much better than me always inspires me to do better in writing my own books. What was the hardest part writing “Remember me Forever”? The hardest part was writing all the scenes where Isis falls into a hole of partying, drinking, etc. She was obviously doing it because she was in pain, and it hurt my heart so bad for her. I just wanted to scoop her up and put her in a blanket.  What is your favorite thing about writing “Remember me Forever"? My FAVORITE thing was FINALLY getting to write a bunch of fluffy/sweet scenes with Jack and Isis cuddling, kissing, etc. They've ha...

Remember me Forever by Sara Wolf Thank you to Entangled Teen and NetGalley for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Isis is back and it's been a few months since Sophia's suicide. She hasn't been handling it well, but what makes everything worse is that Jack just took off. He didn't say one word just completely disappeared. So Isis is trying to be okay with everything and is doing the best that she can. After a summer vacation at her Dad's, she returns to Ohio to get ready to attend Ohio State. Once at Ohio State, she meets Yvette and after having a fabulous conversation they discover they are roommates.  As Isis continues to adjust to life at college and without Jack, she is thrown into a tailspin when she discovers that Nameless also attends the college and that Jack is here as well. Can Isis let go of the past? Can she leave Jack behind? Will Jack finally come to his senses and tell Isis's how he feels about her? I have loved every sin...

Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen Thank you to Berkley and Netgalley for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Whew where to start... my mind is blown!!! Hannah is a successful business woman who returns home one night with some exciting news.  When she arrives home to find her boyfriend of four years Matt is gone. Everything he owned is gone, all of her old stuff is put back in its original place. Where has he gone? What happened? She is so humiliated that the only person she tells at first is her best friend Katie. As time goes on Hannah continues to fall apart. She finds that his number is disconnected and even his mother has moved. She finds out she is pregnant and gets in trouble at work. But weird things are going on in her house. Stuff has been moved, new flowers put in, a cd in her car... Is Matt messing with her? Is she losing her mind? Gah I have like a ton of things I want to say about this book, but spoilers for real I can't comment on what...

From the imprint that published Fiona Barton’s instant New York Times bestseller The Widow and Clare Mackintosh’s global phenomenon I Let You Go , comes Mary Torjussen ’s GONE WITHOUT A TRACE (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; 978-0-399-58501-2; April 11, 2017; $16.00)—an electric, compulsive thriller about a boyfriend’s unexplained disappearance, and its corrosive effects on the woman he left behind.   In GONE WITHOUT A TRACE , young professional Hannah returns from work to find her live-in boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made, every text she ever sent, every photo of him and any sign of him on social media have vanished. It’s as though their last four years together never happened. As she struggles to get through the next few days, with humiliation and recriminations whirring through her head, she knows she’ll do anything to get answers. Where has he gone?   Why has he left?   Then the mes...