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Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

May 26, 2022 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

"Humans. For the most part you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you are remarkably bright creatures." — Marcellus I came for the octopus narrator and stayed for the beautiful story and all of the wonderful characters contained therein. For like the ocean itself, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES is far deeper than can be appreciated on its surface. Shelby Van Pelt did an amazing job of ...

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Blog Tour Review: The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl

July 16, 2019 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Blog Tour Review: The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl

I'll first start by saying that I loved Alex Dahl's debut, The Boy at the Door. Therefore, it was an absolute no-brainer when I was asked to join the blog tour for her sophomore novel, The Heart Keeper. It would have been an immediate yes regardless of what she'd written. When I found out that this book was centered around a greiving mother who had chosen to donate her daughter's organs after her ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, book blogger, Book Review, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Thriller, Fiction

Blog Tour: Overkill by Vanda Symon @vandasymon @orendabooks @annecater

September 13, 2018 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Blog Tour: Overkill by Vanda Symon @vandasymon @orendabooks @annecater

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Overkill by Vanda Symon. There were many things that attracted me to this book. First off, cover love!! Next, it's location. I don't recall ever having read a book set in New Zealand. I was also excited to be starting with the first book in a new-to-me series. Oh, and the synopsis sounded great as well! Overkill begins with a prologue that was very ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, book blogger, Fiction, Set in New Zealand, Vanda Symon

Blog Tour and Review: The Cold Cold Sea by @LindaHuber19 #LoveBooksGroupTours

August 26, 2018 by Ann Marie 9 Comments

Blog Tour and Review: The Cold Cold Sea by @LindaHuber19 #LoveBooksGroupTours

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Cold Cold Sea by Linda Huber. Though reliably disturbing, stories about missing children never fail to attract my attention. When I had the opportunity to join the blog tour for this one, I couldn't say anything but YES! The Cold Cold Sea is told in the third person but straightaway events and twists brought the phrase "unreliable narrator" to mind. I ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Suspense, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Linda Huber, mystery, Psychological Suspense

Review: Our House by Louise Candlish

July 18, 2018 by Ann Marie 14 Comments

Review: Our House by 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

Review: The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir

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

Review: Every Single Secret by Emily Carpenter

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

Review: The Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan Meyers

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

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

June 9, 2018 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

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

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

Book Review: The Sandman by Lars Kepler

June 6, 2018 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

Book Review: The Sandman by Lars Kepler

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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