Saturday, July 8, 2017

The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

Local Kentucky woman goes missing.  Honestly, the characterization was excellent, but I'm not sure what the whole story line about Emily had to really do with the main story.  I also feel like I didn't get the last chapter.

3.5 stars.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Good as Gone by Amy Gentry

Audio
Read by Karen Peakes
7 hours, 43 minutes

Eight years after being kidnapped, Julie returns home to her family.  Or is it an impostor?

4 stars

Sunday, July 2, 2017

The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

Audio
Read by Nina Alvamar
9.25 hours

The story of Ava and her daughter, Maggie, told over the course of a year.  Story is tied in with the books chosen by Ava's book club with the theme, the book that matters most to me.

This could have been a 5 star book, but for the incredible coincidences.

4 stars

The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth

Single-mother Alice is diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  What will happen to her daughter, Zoe who suffers from social anxiety disorder.

Good story, but the coincidences really took away from the story.

4 stars

Monday, June 26, 2017

The Mistake I Made by Paula Daly

Audio
Read by Dawn Murphy
9 hours, 50 minutes

Roz, a single mother buried in debt, accepts an offer of money for sex from a rich man.  One bad choice leads to another and Roz finds herself and her son in danger.  Tied up a little too nicely in the last chapter, but otherwise very good.

4 stars

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben.

Audio
Read by January LaVoy
10 hours, 14 minutes.

Maya's husband Joe is murdered only four months after someone tortured and killed her sister.  Maya, former military, investigates.

5 stars

Monday, June 12, 2017

The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth

Audio
Read by Therese Plummer and Barrie Kreinik
Case had no info on length of recording, but it was 8 CDs.

Sad look at a young woman, Anna, with early early-onset Alzheimer's disease and how she copes with losing her memory.  At the same time, a widow of a disgraced business exec who kills himself, comes to work at the residential care facility where Anna is living.

4 stars.