Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper (2013) | Book Review
Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2013 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Love Saves The Day: When five-week-old kitten Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill, she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her…
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Book Review
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Is Amy a gone girl? On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.…
Last Exit In New Jersey by C.E. Grundler | Book Review
Last Exit in New Jersey by C.E. Grundler Genres: Fiction, American Literature Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon Last Exit In New Jersey shows that nice young ladies really shouldn’t be dumping bodies at sea. But when twenty-year-old Hazel and her father become the targets of some unsavory characters hunting for her missing cousin, their stolen tractor-trailer, and a delivery that never arrived, she knows it’s time to heed a lesson learned from her favorite hard-boiled paperbacks: playing nice will only end in tears. It’ll take all her ingenuity, not to mention some fishing tackle and high voltage, if…
The Tourist Trail by John Yunker | Book Review
The Tourist Trail by John Yunker Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon The Tourist Trail is an exciting thriller! Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries of penguins before dawn, and spending most of her days in one of the most remote regions on Earth. if for no other reason than to protect her birds and her work. Against the backdrop of the Southern Ocean, The Tourist Trail weaves together the…
No Cure for the Broken Hearted by Kenneth Rosenberg | Book Review
No Cure for the Broken Hearted by Kenneth Rosenberg Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Blog, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon Sometimes your very first love never quite lets you go. Katherine Spencer is an up-and-coming architect in New York City. Her professional life is on the fast track. Her personal life is a shambles. Katherine compares every man she ever meets to Nick Bancroft, the billionaire’s son who broke her heart one summer long ago. Now, twelve years later he’s suddenly reappeared, asking her to design a house at the cove where they shared their first kiss. Is…
