Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Audio.  10.5 hours.

Read by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine. 


Adam and Amelia win a weekend getaway, or did they?  Strange things happen when they arrive at the Scottish "inn".  

Book flashes back quite often.  OMG surprise by the end.  Really enjoyed this book.

5 stars.

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

 Wren thinks she's found love on a dating app, until she's ghosted by him.  Then a private detective shows up and tells her this has happened before.

I would have given this a 5, but I dislike when intelligent women start making dumb decisions.

4 stars.

Friday, November 26, 2021

False Witness by Karin Slaughter

 Sisters Harleigh and Calliope must face an ugly past when Harleigh is called on to defend a wealthy man who they realize is also a part of that past.

4 stars.

Friday, November 19, 2021

The Missing Hours by Julia Dahl

 Disturbing story, but well written.  Justice for the rich =/= justice for the poor.

4 stars.

Saturday, November 6, 2021

What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Audio.  7 CDs.

Read by the authors.

 A scientific look at how trauma influences the brain and affects behavior.  Very informative.

4 stars.

Saturday, October 30, 2021

2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox

 Estranged dad dies and Rhonda inherits a younger half-sister she didn't know about.  

I didn't particularly like any of the characters.  I didn't care that the teens got killed, but I felt a bit sorry for the guy that killed them, so weird.

I honestly only finished it to get credit for reading it.

2.5 stars

Sunday, October 24, 2021

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

 Audio.  8.5 hours.

Read by Emily Shaffer, Lauren Fortgang, and Kirby Heyborne.

When poor, scrappy Jane (if that's her name) gets engaged to rich, recent widower Eddie she gets even more than she expected.  I didn't like the Jane character much, but maybe that was the reader's voice?

4 stars.

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

 Audio.  16 hours.

Read by Kathleen Early.

Andie finds out her mother is not who she always thought she was.

I found Laura's weakness around Nick to be very annoying.

4 stars.

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Falling by T. J. Newman

 A pilot's family is kidnapped and he is forced to make an impossible choice:  crash the plane he's flying, or his family dies.

4.5 stars

Friday, September 17, 2021

The Therapist by B. A. Paris

 Audio.  8CDs.  Total time not listed.

Read by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd.

Alice finds out that the home she recently moved into was the site of a murder several years earlier.  Dissatisfied by the findings of the investigation, Alice begins digging into the details herself.

Loved the British accents of the readers.  

4 stars.

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

 Matt's away at college and gets the devastating phone call that his family is dead.  The only other member left is his older brother, Danny, who's in prison serving time for a crime he says he didn't commit.

I had trouble getting into the story.  I never felt like reading it during the day, just at night and would often fall asleep and then have to reread the next night.  

3 stars.

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Not a Happy Family by Shari LaPena

Audio.  9 hours.

Read by Ellen Archer 

This book grabs you from the first chapter.  A rich couple is dead and there are lots of people happy about it.  The ending wrapped up pretty quickly, but other than that it was great.  Even the teaser at the very end was perfect.

4.5 stars

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

 #momspringa:  a vacation from motherhood.  I enjoyed the beginning and the end, but the middle could have been 30 pages shorter.

3.5 stars

Monday, August 23, 2021

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

 Audio.  9.5 hours.

Read by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith,

Mostly this was interesting with some good twists.  I'm still not sure who the killer's voice was supposed to be, him or her.

Not a fan of the "woman decides she should be investigating and makes dumb decisions".

4 stars.

Friday, August 6, 2021

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

 Audio.  8 CDs.  Doesn't give length of recording.

Read by Marin Ireland.

When a bank robbery goes wrong, and a group of people find themselves hostages, everyone learns about themselves and others.

I liked all the characters and the narrator really brought the story to life.

5 stars!

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

 A woman goes missing and the focus is on her husband.  But then another goes missing, along with her 6yo daughter.  

Pretty exciting.  Told in two time periods. (current and 11 years ago)

4 stars.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher

 Audio.  9 hours.

Read by Lauren Fortgang.

Juno moves in with the Crouch family, but will she ultimately regret it?  The family has secrets she wasn't prepared for.

4 stars

Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt

A sixth grader disappears, mirroring the disappearances / deaths that happened twenty four ago.  Mary Grace, sheriff, investigates, but she has secrets of her own.

Written with two timelines that alternate.

I didn't love it.

3 stars

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Twenty by James Grippando

 A young muslin man confesses to carrying out a school shooting, despite evidence to the contrary.  Attorney Jack Swyteck tries to find out the real story.

4.5 stars

Thursday, July 1, 2021

That Summer by Jennifer Weiner

 Audio.  Read by Sutton Foster.

Heartbreaking story beautifully told.

5 stars.