Make Up Reading

A solid 3.75 Stars Divorced, single Mom Louise comes home one day, checks her e-mail messages and sees that she has a new friend request. Simple enough, right? Not really when the request if from someone who has been dead since 1989. Not really when you were partially responsible for her death.   A lot of things run through Louise's mind. Could Maria Weston have survived? Could she be planning her revenge on Louise and her ex friend Sophie for what they did on Prom night? Louise has no idea, all she knows is that she is being watched, followed by someone. Someone is sending her threatening messages. A date her friend set her up with through an online dating app turns out to be a sick prank from Maria. As Louise tries to sort things out everything seems to get worse and worse until her ex highschool best friend and fellow mean girl Sophie ends up dead. Louise then realizes that her life is in danger and she needs to get at the bottom of this before it is to late for her. ...

4.75 Stars I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher St. Martin's Press. Molly and Liza have been friends for most of their lives. They grew up together in Cincinnati but after Liza moves to Chicago and Molly gets married they begin to slowly drift apart. Trying desperately to reconnect the two woman plan a Skype date. Molly's husband is out of town so this is a perfect idea, until things start to go terrible wrong. For one thing the women  struggle to find anything to really bond about. Liza finds Molly to be cold and distant. She doesn't seem to want to connect. As Molly gets up to tend to her daughter Nori Liza finds herself trying to figure out why she is even trying to salvage this relationship she sees something frightening pop up on screen. A masked man in black appears in the frame. As Liza tries calling Molly and screams her name the man walks calmly to the computer and closes the screen. Freaked out Liza calls 911 but still not feeling okay she decides...

3.5 Stars First off I would like to thank Netgalley & the publisher Bleeding Ink Publishing for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. For the longest time Jack Frost was one of the most underused mythical characters. I think the movie version of "Rise of the Guardians" brought him more to the forefront. Every year at Christmas the Jack Frost special comes on and I always cry so I have been a fan of his for a while!  Inside the globe no one knows knows that the weather is being controlled by  Morozoko Industries. Jack and Gen want to know why Winter lasts forever and yet Spring,Summer and Autumn seem to go by in a blink of an eye. With WInter lasting so long the residents have a very short amount of time to harvest what they need to survive the cold season to come. Life is not easy for the residents of the globe. I felt that this book was a bit of a hit and miss for me. There were parts that I really liked a lot but I di...