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...

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...

2.75 Stars The very first novel by Lauren Oliver that I read was "Before I Fall". I fell madly in love with that book,the writing was lyrical and the story was beautiful. Yes, it was a concept that had been done before but the way that Lauren Oliver wrote this book was just perfect in every way. I have since rad "Panic" as well as "Liesel & Po" and "The Spindlers" and I really liked them. However this book had a hard time holding my interest. I started it a while ago and I was having such a hard time getting into it I actually ended up reading two other books before picking this one back up. I really love Lauren Oliver's writing style so really that had nothing to do with it. Nick was a very likable character though Dara was not even in her journal issues she was not likable. I really hated her parts of the story. I also am like many other that found the twist to be a bit obvious. You knew what it was from almost the very start. I really ...

First off I would like to thank Netgalley and Atria Books for allowing me to read an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I have heard of Lisa Jewell but have never read any of her books. Well, that is going to change because I truly enjoyed this novel!  We first meet newlywed Joey shortly after she and her new husband Alfie has moved from Ibiza to Melville Heights to live with her older brother and his pregnant wife Rebecca. Joey finds herself almost immediately attracted to Tom  Fitzwiiliam a middle aged married man whom she first sees with his wife Nicola and son Freddie as they get out of their car. Though ordinary by most standards there is something so charismatic about Tom Joey finds herself crushing on him without even saying a word.  The story switches from three POVs and police interviews after a murder has taken place, flashing back to a few months prior to the crime. Joey's story, Freddie's story and one of Tom  Fitzwi...

I would like to start this review by thank Netgalley and the publisher St. Martin's Press for allowing me to read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. For me though I really enjoyed this book and was going back and forth between a 3.5 stars to a solid 4 stars I ended up going with 3.5. Of course I gave it 4 as we are not able to give half stars! I also felt that the twists were enough to give it a 4 star rating. One perfect May morning Susannah returns from her run to find a note on the door of her home that reads simply "I know who you are". Susannah is freaked out by the note and immediately calls her husband who is out of town on a business trip.  When Max gets home he is not as upset by the note and ends up just dismissing it. Thinking that is the end of it and then something else happens. The husband of a couple that had dined with Max and Susannah recently dies in a terrible accident while on a run with Max. Shortly thereafter another note arrives ...