"I was suspicious of love and what it did to people - those dark depths of anguish and horror; the thought of it all made me shudder." Bo Luxton has the life everyone wants. A successful writing career, loyal husband and two adorable daughters. She is the very picture of happiness and contentment. All she [...]
"The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely." There are about a million different thoughts rushing through my brain about this book, but there's really only one that's important. If you've ever known someone to struggle with mental illness, this book helps open [...]
"I worry he'll think I've been keeping secrets. And then, because I don't want to keep secrets, I keep more secrets." The Grip Of It is an eery novel about one couple's struggle to live in a haunted house. Of course, they didn't know it was haunted when they first moved in, but with each [...]
"It was a bloody awful way to die. It had been a bloody awful way to live." The Nine is a debut fantasy novel and what an incredible debut it is!!! Townsend has built an incredible world, full of interesting species and a plot with enough twists and turns to make the read feel like [...]
"There's nothing better than welcoming your husband home from war -- nothing except welcoming your sons." Army Wife is the perfect name for this memoir describing how being married to a soldier really is. Her voice really shines through in this telling memoir, and she strikes me a very fun and sassy woman. That spark [...]
"Alix knew she was in trouble." We open with that line, immediately pulling us into a story full of scandal and intrigue. Alix, blackmailed into impersonating her twin sister Lily, begins her misadventure by thinking Lily's husband Nicholas to be an oblivious fool. Lily has assured her he pays no attention to her and will [...]
"The sun was up, so the dark could start. All about the ground, all in the same direction, shadows sprawled. And this is what he was after." Oh how deliciously dark Sip is! A novel where we find ourselves 150 years in the future. A future where people can drink their shadows and change their [...]
"Because the other way wasn't working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all." Today Will Be Different is exactly the book I needed to read! The [...]
Daughter4254 used to think life in a community where art, music and names are outlawed would suffocate her creative spirit. Now that she’s rotting in a prison cell, she’s not sure her dying mother made the right choice when she entrusted her with the secrets of rebellion. Prison has given her plenty of time to [...]
"Your beliefs shape the world we see. Change your beliefs, change your world." Ocean's Fire follows the journey of Skylar Southmartin picking up the pieces of her life after her mother's death. Choosing to stay closer to home to finish her degree, Skylar wants to figure out why the plan to resurrect her mother didn't [...]
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