I don’t think that I’ve read anything as raw, gritty, or gut-wrenchingly helpless and emotional as A Handbook for Beautiful People. Featuring Marla, a twenty-two year-old woman who has partial fetal alcohol syndrome thanks to an alcoholic/drug abusing mother who practically abandoned her and her deaf brother to foster care when they were young, […]
If you crack open the pages of The Drifter expecting a murder mystery, you’ll be a bit disappointed. It’s stated in black and white in the back cover blurb that former sorority girl Betsy and her two best friends experience a horrible act of violence while in their last year of college in Gainesville, […]
The psychological thriller Beside Myself takes a good look at many things like nature vs. nurture, mental illness and how it affects families, the repercussions of suicide, and sibling rivalry. Twins Helen and Ellie have a unique but tenuous relationship when they’re young, mainly based on the strain after their artist father’s suicide and […]
By now any of you who’ve read Katie McGarry’s books know that she has a formula that works: take a troubled girl and an equally but differently troubled boy, push them together, put them through the ringer, and then make them work for a fantastic happy ending. And it’s always told in alternating points of […]
My Thoughts: The Clairmont siblings are known as the Tribe of Five in their town, and with four brothers and just one sister left to fend for themselves after their parents died in a plane crash, every one of them has floundered in one way or another–even if they outwardly seem successful. Ruby Ink tells […]
Today I’m going to do things a little differently than my usual review style and tell you the Five Reasons why I think you should read or would enjoy Canary by Duane Swierczynski. I listened to the excellent audiobook provided by Hachette Audio. Sarie takes being a confidential informant as serious as her college […]
I love books that are set after Graduation and, this one sounded especially exciting with a girl who desperately wanted to leave her town and would do anything to achieve her dreams! A young girl who’s desperate wish is to leave her town and become a scientist… … and if life would be fair, then […]