Make Up Reading

  4.5 out of 5 stars Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan audio for allowing me to listen to an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is my first Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel and I really enjoyed it. I think that my first introduction to this character being an audio book really worked out well for me. The narration by Robert Bathurst was perfect and as I got to know the character I realized he was the best choice. He really brought me into the story more. All the Devils Are Here (love the title by the way) felt like a good old fashioned mystery but with a hard edge that I really enjoyed. I loved the way Paris was captured here and I enjoyed the thriller aspects added to up the excitement a bit more. I love a good cozy mystery but really enjoy a good thriller as well.  I plan to read all of the previous novels now that I have been introduced to Armand Gamache . He is a very interesting character. I am so glad that I have been introduced to h...

4.5 out of 5 stars I would like to thank Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for allowing  to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I believe this is my first  Michele Campbell novel and I didn't know what to expect but it turned out to be a really good, fun and twisty thriller. I will admit that at first I did not like Tabitha but that was before we really got to know her. She ended up being a very interesting character. I always enjoy watching characters navigate the wealthy and powerful world after living in the "outside" their whole lives. Each character tends to have their own way of trying to fit in. The mystery was well written and I really cared about Nina and felt for her in a lot of ways. The setting was pretty awesome and this held my interest very well. I won't say much more because the  twists are fun and I don't want to risk spoiling this you all! Would I recommend this to a friend? Well, duh! Of course I would! Pick this up t...

5.5 Stars First off I would like to thank Net Galley and St.Martins Press for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is the first novel that I have read by Wendy Walker and I really, really enjoyed this book!  Just twelve hours ago Laura was excited to be going on a date with a man she met on the dating app Findlove.com. Johnathan Fields seems like a pretty perfect match for her, handsome,intelligent and nice. Now she is missing and her sister Rosie is determined to find her before it's too late. Told in three perspectives Laura's first person starting twelve hours ago and working slowly the towards present. Rosie's third person starting from the moment she realizes that Laura is missing and notes from Laura's session with her psychiatrist. The novel hooked me from the start. I must say that the Laura parts of this book read like a play to me. I could picture every scene between Laura and Johnathon as if it was o...

4.5 Stars Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Amber has a plan, a very set plan. She wants to be the next Mrs. Parrish and she will do whatever it takes to attain her goal, even if it means befriending the current Mrs. Parrish.One day at the gym Amber "accidentally" drops a magazine that covers the disease cystic fibrosis right in front of Daphne Parrish. Daphne runs a foundation for the families of children that have CF in honor of her dead sister Julie. Amber just so happens to have a dead sister who lost her life to CF as well. Of course since the part one of the book is told from Amber's POV we know that everything about Amber is a lie. Amber is a true psychopath, willing do anything and everything to get what she wants. We see each and every step of Amber's plan play out as Daphne slowly but surely loses her husband to the bewitching Amber. The second part of the novel is told in first person from Daphne's POV and last but not leas...

Another wonderful Tracy Crosswhite novel. Every time I open a Tracy Crosswhite novel I get excited. I would put Tracy right up there next to Kinsey Milhone as my favorite female leads in a mystery series. This novel did not let me down for the most part.  Before, I get into the mystery let me say what I really liked and the one or two things I felt the need to nit pick a bit. Things I loved? I think one of the best parts of this novel was the bumped up roles of the rest of the A team. We got some good quality time with Faz and Del as well as some good moments with Tracy and Dan and with Tracy and her partner Kins. I liked that Tracy realized in this book that she is not alone, that the A team are her family. Heck, even Nolasco had an actual bit of good advice. My main little nit pick? It is kind of silly but, Tracy's whole watching everything she put in her mouth thing. That is something new added to the series and I just found it to be a bit annoying. It didn't fit her charac...

Once again another great Tracy Crosswhite novel. As you know by now if you happen to read my reviews I adore these books. These mysteries are not the cozy kind but I can't help but feel a fondness that I very rarely feel towards the main characters in more hard boiled mysteries. In all actuality I think that the only other detective in the harder novels that I feel such an attachment to is Kinsey from the Sue Grafton Alphabet novels.  This time around Tracy is dealing with two mysteries, one in the present and one that took place back in 1976. A friend of Tracy's asks her to please look into a case that her now deceased Father was never able to let go of. The case is not a cold case in the sense that it was closed but, her Father seemed to not be happy with the results. The case revolves around the death of Kimi Kanasket a Native American girl in a small town. The case hits Tracy very close to her heart because of the death of her sister. She knows she must solve this case. Mea...

If Buffy and Nancy Drew had a baby it would be Nefertari Hughes! I found this book by accident but I am so thrilled that I did. I had requested the ARC for the third book in the series without realizing it was the third in the series. I was thrilled to find that the first two books were available through Kindle Unlimited. I am so glad I found them. I loved this first book in the series! As someone who grew up reading the old Nancy Drew novels, everything Lois Duncan, R.L Stine and my King of YA Christopher Pike ths was made for me. Nefartari (Terry) Hughes finds herself in the smaller city of Devonshire in New England after Terry and her Mother were involved in a collapse on a dig in Egypt. It also left her leg crippled. Terry's motto have become "Do Not Get Involved". It becomes increasingly harder to not get involved. She starts to become attached to her partners in her history class, outcast Maude and ach the golden boy athlete as well as the class new paper reporter F...