Are you really at all surprised that so soon after watching the first two season of A Discovery of Witches that I would start reading the books? It really should come as no shock. Seeing as I burn through shows and movies as quick as I can, I figure if I like something enough I want to read the book before too many details escape my memory. That’s why as soon as I saw it was available I went to the closest library to rent the first book in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy, A Discovery of Witches.
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Book Review: Badlands by C.J. Box
I told you it wouldn’t be much time before I got my hands on C.J. Box’s second novel in the Cassie Dewell series, Badlands. After the first book, which the show Big Sky followed more closely than I anticipated, I was really curious to see if what’s happened in the second half of the season so far follows Box’s second novel just as closely.
Read moreBook Review: The Push by Ashley Audrain
My mother has been subscribing to People magazine even longer than I’ve been alive, so along with the the novel Girl A, Ashley Audrain’s novel The Push was featured in the same week. I love a book that sounds eerie and potentially thrilling, and that’s just what the brief reviews in the magazine provided me! I was sold and quickly got my name on the wait list for them.
Read moreBook Review: The Highway by C.J. Box
I told you all it was coming, and here it is! My review of The Highway by C.J. Box is the novel that inspired the ABC show, Big Sky. When I learned that the show as inspired by a book I knew I had to get my hands on it regardless of where the season was at. A large part of that has to do with the fact that the events in the show just seem a little off.
Read moreI Know This Much is True – Book & Miniseries Review
Whew! About about a month ago I sat down to watch the HBO miniseries starring my main man, Mark Ruffalo, as twins in I Know This Much is True. After finishing all six installments, I really liked it and decided to bite the bullet and read the 900 page book of the same name. I figured with that much in writing, the show surely missed details, but I was wrong!
Read moreBook Review: The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney
Typical me, I saw that this book, The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney, was heading for television, so I picked it up without much more context. In this case, the decision worked out!
Read moreBook Review: The Swap by Robyn Harding
I don’t want to come out of the gate and say that this book was misleading, because really it wasn’t. It’s just that the blurb provided seemed to exclude a very key character that helped drive a lot of the plot of this thriller. Regardless, The Swap by Robyn Harding was at times wonderful and at other times a bit cheesy, but overall, it was a fun read that could perhaps be saved for your time on the beach.
Read moreBook Review: Girl A by Abigail Dean
For a debut novel, Abigail Dean sure packs an impressive punch with Girl A! This book is equal parts devastating and thrilling, and she alludes to just enough that at least my morbid curiosity was sated. This story is something that could have very easily been ripped from the headlines and might scarily be someone’s future, but for now it is just fiction (and good fiction at that!).
Read moreBook Review: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
What a thrilling and slightly disturbing book this was! I don’t know that I would have ever come across Behind Closed Doors had it not been for my friend and her sister giving it high accolades. Then I went a step further and read high level what it was about, and it had thriller just screaming at me. I was sold!
Read moreBook Review: Drive and Before I Fall
I’ve been really trying to get some reading in this week, with success! Also, these are quite different reads, but neither less entertaining than the other.
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