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Review: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage and Giveaway

July 31, 2018 by Ann Marie 17 Comments

Baby Teeth Book

Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, right? Thats what Suzette thought too... If you're a fan of thrillers, you've undoubtedly seen BABY TEETH everywhere over the past couple of weeks. It certainly one of the most hyped of the summer. Ninety percent of Goodreads reviewers rate this book between three and five stars. It obviously has a lot going for it. I'm not ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: Debut, Fiction, thriller, Zoje Stage

Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl

July 24, 2018 by Ann Marie 12 Comments

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Boy at the Door. If your summer reading list is lacking something suspenseful and disturbing, (c'mon they can't all be light and fluffy) I highly recommend adding this book to your TBR. If Bravo were casting for The Real Housewives of Sandefjord, they would most definitely want to contract with Cecelia Wilborg. Socialite, designer, day-drinking ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized

Review: Our House by Louise Candlish

July 18, 2018 by Ann Marie 14 Comments

Our House Louise Candlish

If you've been monitoring my tweets (and why wouldn't you be?) you've seen that I started fangirling over Our House the moment I started it. I don't really do the fangirl gushing thing very well or very often but I've found some difficulty in restraining myself with this book. I will do my best to maintain some level of coherency in an effort to convey to you, as best I can, why I loved it. The ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Domestic Suspense, Family Dynamics, Louise Candlish

Review: The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir

July 12, 2018 by Ann Marie 7 Comments

Book Essie

If you, like me, have been seeing The Book of Essie everywhere, it's with good reason. Meghan MacLean Weir's debut novel is a fearless and timely story that's bound to elicit visceral emotional responses in the reader. One can't help but make comparisons between Essie's story and that of a certain reality television show family. Thankfully, there were enough departures to make the story feel fresh ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Debut Novel, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Religion

Review: Every Single Secret by Emily Carpenter

July 4, 2018 by Ann Marie 8 Comments

Straight out of the shoot, I knew I was going to like this one. I immediately questioned the reliability of the narrator and I was intrigued by the secrets Daphne and Heath were keeping from one another. What engaged couple agrees to never bring up their past? Not just their relationship past, but ever-y-thing. Living for the present is one thing, but if your finance is telling you they don't want ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Book Review, Emily Carpenter, Fiction, Psychological Thriller

Review: The Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan Meyers

July 1, 2018 by Ann Marie 7 Comments

widow of wall street

I'm going rogue here. I'm going to do something I've never done. I'm going to talk about a book without giving it a rating. I'll try to explain. I knew when I began reading The Widow of Wall Street that there would be parallels to the life of Ruth and Bernie Madoff. I didn't realize just how closely related the stories would be. This book is basically a fictionalized retelling of the rise and fall ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction Tagged With: Bernie Madoff, book blogger, Fiction, financial crimes, Ruth Madoff

Audiobook Review: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

June 20, 2018 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

I'm beginning to learn that audiobooks either work or do not for me. There is no middle ground. I'm happy to report that The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell definitely worked! There are many things I loved about this book but my overwhelming response upon finishing it was Wow, this book was so refreshing! I can't recall the last time I read a book centered around a likable protagonist with an ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: audible, audiobook review, Coming of Age, Fiction, Great for Book Club, Literary Fiction

Review and Giveaway: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

June 9, 2018 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Summer I Met Jack

When I first heard about this book, I was very excited because I had read Michelle Gable's I'll See you in Paris and already knew I liked her writing. Like many Americans, I've always been drawn to glamour and glitz as well as the drama and tragedy of the Kennedy family. I somehow had it in my head that this was going to be a very Kennedy-centric book detailing one of his many affairs. I was ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction Tagged With: Alicia Darr, beach read, book blogger, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Kennedy Family

Mini Audiobook Review: Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

June 6, 2018 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Far From the Tree took me far out of my comfort zone in the most excellent way! It's only the second audiobook I've listen to till the very end and it's YA. Here's what I loved: The Characters - Grace, Maya, and Joaquin were well-developed characters to love. They're all basically good kids carrying more baggage than most adults could bear. Some of their baggage is shared and some is very ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Uncategorized, YA Tagged With: audiobook, Family Dynamics, Fiction, YA

Book Review: The Sandman by Lars Kepler

June 6, 2018 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Despite never having read Lars Kepler's previous novels, I had high hopes for The Sandman. In the end, it simply didn't live up to my expectations. That's not say it was all bad but the issues I had, which I hope I can articulate, were pretty weighty ones and really impacted my overall experience with the book. Perhaps one of the reasons that I was so disappointed is because this book had such ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Fiction, Joona Linna, Lars Kepler, thriller

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