Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Little Broken Things! I was very excited to read this book based on the blurb. The gorgeous cover certainly did not hurt! I was quickly drawn in by the first few chapters. After all, it's not every day that a sister alters the appearance of a child, assigns her a new name, and drops her off at her semi-estranged sister's house with no explanation. But ...
Fiction
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The End of the World Running Club
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of Chapter of The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker. I received a signed ARC of this book at Book Expo 2016. It ...
Review: The Summer that Melted Everything
” “A snake that could harm you, you don’t have much choice to kill. You wouldn’t be able to leave a cobra in your sock drawer. But a snake that is no threat will greatly define the man who tries to kill it anyways.” “ The year is 1984 and in the small town of Breathed (pronounced breath-ed), Ohio, something strange is happening. Autopsy Bliss, a local attorney, places an open invitation in the ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: Wolf by Wolf
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of paragraphs of Wolf by Wolf. This is a book that's been sitting on my shelf for quite a while now. I'm woefully behind on ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The Summer that Melted Everything
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of paragraphs from Tiffany McDaniel's The Summer that Melted Everything. This book has been on my TBR for a long time so when the ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Odd Child Out! This is another book that first caught my attention at Book Expo 2017. Though I hadn't read What She Knew, the first DI Jim Clemo book, I had absolutely no problem at all reading this book as a stand-alone. Odd Child Out drew me in straightaway. It is a very steady page-turner. There are several reasons for this but the first is that this ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: Odd Child Out
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first two paragraphs of Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan. My stop on the blog tour is coming up on Thursday, October 26th. I'll be starting ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons. Though I have never read the original version of Dangerous Liaisons or even seen a film or theater adaptation, I was intrigued by this book's description and couldn't wait to receive my copy. I was not disappointed. If you've been following my reviews for any length of time, you probably know that I ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Caroline: Little House, Revisited
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Caroline: Little House, Revisited! As someone who grew up watching Little House on the Prairie and reading the much-celebrated books series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was very excited to hear about this book at Book Expo 2017. When I was offered the opportunity to participate in the blog tour, I jumped on it! Caroline's character, in both the book and ...
Review: Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath
"Who was the creature, this mother, wife, psych, who looked like me and sounded like me, but who had never once in a dozen years suspected her husband of cheating, let alone having another child?" Give Me the Child is a page-turner straightway! It's told in the first person by Cat, who learns her husband has another child after a middle-of-the-night knock on the door. The mother of the ...
