Make Up Reading

4 out of 5 stars Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton Book and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Ava is living the kind of life most people would love. She is married to a successful tech multi millionaire has a step son and two lovely daughters until one evening when everything changes.. Shortly after arriving home from picking up her 12 year old daughter June from a friend's house she goes upstairs to shower only to hear a strange noise and gets out to investigate. What she finds is her husband Robert and daughter being held at gunpoint.    With her daughter lying in the hospital in a coma Ava will do anything and everything it takes to find out who is responsible. She soon learns that everyone is hiding secrets and lies. After all Ava herself has been doing the same. I really enjoyed this mystery/thriller and Ava was a great character. My only issue was that she kind of turned into Sherlock Holmes. She w...

4.75 stars out of 5 stars I would like to thank Netgalley and Atria Books for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Libby Jones was adopted as a baby and for her whole life she has wondered her she really is. Shortly after her 25th birthday Libby receives a letter she has been waiting her whole for for. She will finally know where she comes from. Her life has not been horrible but she has never known who she truly is. However, opening the letter leaves her with even more questions.  What she knows is that twenty five years ago police were called to a house at 16 Cheyne Walk complaining of a baby crying. What they found was three dead bodies from a murder suicide and evidence of a cult. Though there were reports of children being seen going in and out none of the children were there except for one baby girl by the name of Serenity Lamb, aka Libby Jones. As we flash back to the past as Henry tells us in first person the events th...

4 out of 5 stars Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer  Alice is happy living in her small town and working at the paper. Life seems to be going pretty well until one Wednesday when she gets a whispered phone call tell her that they will use a cheese wire on her. Of course she is freaked out, I mean who wouldn't be? Her boss, work friend's and boyfriend to her not to worry.  That she is a reporter and there are all kinds of people that harassing reporters with whom they do not agree. Alice does her best to move on and not think of it too often. That is until the next Wednesday when the stalker contacts Alice once again. After this Alice's boyfriend Tom contacts Matthew Hill a private investigator to protect Alice. As the stalker intensifies we begin to find out that Alice herself has been keeping a secret or two from the police and Matthew.  I really enjoy Theresa Driscoll novels. She does something a little bit different than most authors, she has recurr...

4 out of 5 stars  Thank you to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Claire and her husband Ethan are still devastated over the loss of their son Colton  from a condition caused by Claire's mitochondrial  DNA. Though they have tried to heal from it they are not doing well. Ethan wants another child but Claire is afraid of giving birth to another child destined to die at a young age.. Even though Claire knows it is unfair she is afraid that she could not love a child that is not hers by blood as much. Then one day while on her support board Mito Moms someone mentioned something that makes Claire change her mind as she comes up with a plan to have a biological child after all.  She decides to go to Robert Nash a Doctor working on creating a child with DNA from 3 people.  She gives birth to a miraculous daughter named Abby. This is  a very well written psychological/medic...

1 star out of 5 Man, this was terrible. I am only given this a one star because I thought there was a good premise somewhere in this horribly written novel. I guess because I am a horror/slasher fan I am meant to love this book? Apparently that is the case since many of the reviews seem to tell that it is. The problem is that the author cant go for more than a few sentences without tossing in some kind of quote from a slasher film. He also loves giving characters various horror legend's names. I kid you not, there is a character named Jamie Curtis. The fact that this is told in script form did not help it all. In fact I think it hurt it. When you read a script you read it differently than a book. I have always found that I seem to pay attention on a higher level when I read a script so that means I am even more rapped up in this than I even am in a book. Because of that the cheap lines, bad jokes and horrid writing was even more noticeable. I had wanted to read this for awhile but ...