Thursday, June 27, 2024

Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher

Iris witnesses her twin sister Piper getting kidnapped and spends the next decade trying to find her.

The set up was good, but the ending was just so unbelievable, it ruined the book.

2 stars.

 

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner.

 Frankie Elkin meets with a soon-to-be executed, female serial killer who wants her to find her sister who's been missing for 20 years.  But perhaps the killer's motives are not pure.  Frankie heads to a remote Pacific atoll to get the scoop.

One:  the murder/suicide was mighty convenient.

Two:  I will forever be haunted by the knowledge of coconut crabs.

3.5 stars.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

Audio.  10.5 hours.

Read by Ines del Castillo.

Hazel returns for her father's funeral and finds strange things happening in Mirror Lake.

4 stars. 

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French

 Charlotte goes missing just before her husband's 50th birthday party.  Would she have just just left without telling any of her four children?  Thirty years later, it looks like the family may finally find out.  

4 stars.

Thursday, June 13, 2024

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Audio.  17 hours.

Read by Imogen Church.

 

A college girl is murdered and someone it tried and convicted.  When he dies in prison ten years later, still claiming to be innocent, Hannah, the prosecution's main witness starts to worry that she condemned an innocent man.

Story was good.  I liked the flashback format the author used.  Sadly, another smart woman starts doing dumb things.  Sigh.  The narrator was excellent though.

4 stars.

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica

 A local doctor goes missing.  Is the wife's best friend somehow involved?

I did enjoy the twist at the end.  I had several suspects, but didn't see it coming.

4.5 stars.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

The Winners (Beartown #3) by Fredrik Backman

Audio.  21 hours.

Read by Marin Ireland.

I never wanted this book and this trilogy to end.  I miss the residents of Beartown, a small town in the forest who love hockey.

5 stars. 

One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America by Mansur Nurdel

I forgot to log this book from May. 

Man facing religious persecution, flees and becomes successful American.  I liked this more than I thought I would.  Parts could have been shorter.

3.5 stars.

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

 Audio.  9.5 hours.

Read by Joan Walker.

This was no Beartown story, but it grew on me.  

Britt-Marie leaves her husband after spending her whole married life not working, instead caring for his children by another woman.  After she leaves him, she takes the only job she can find, which is located in a run-down small town.  Despite her short stay, Britt-Marie leaves an impact on the town and its residents, and they on her.

3.5 stars.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

The Guest by B.A. Paris

 Laure shows up unexpectedly after an incident with her husband.  She stays well past her welcome, and she should have left sooner.

3.5 stars.