comes to his wife. Grace gave up her job as a buyer who got to travel to South America to source their fruit so she and Jack could spend more time together. They're always together.. even when Grace is invited out for coffee with her girlfriends or when she's visiting her younger sister, Millie, who wants some alone time with her. The chapters go back and forth between past and present. I couldn't put the book down. The whole story flowed well. Grace's fear, desperation, and helplessness were palpable. My hatred towards Jack was immense. I really liked Millie, Grace's younger sister with Down's syndrome who shares my opinion that George Clooney is an ugly man.  It's scary and disgusting to think how often this happens in real life.

In the years since Bella's disappearance Glen Taylor's life had been a nightmare. He had been the main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of the little girl, but the police could never find actual proof that he had done it. His wife, Jean, always supported him and stood by his side. But she doesn't have to be the perfect wife anymore. Glen's dead. With all the reporters waiting outside her home she can tell the whole world her side of the story. This book goes back and forth from Jean to Glen to Kate the reporter to DI Bob Sparkes. All these characters are flat. The story is dull and flat and boring. The ending was anticlimactic. The book started off good, but it just seemed like nothing really happened throughout the whole thing. A very disappointing and forgettable read that I struggled to get through.

This novel focuses on three friends and the challenges they face and how they overcome them. This is the second book in the Mischief Bay series, and the first one I read. Gabby Schaefer has spent the last five years as a stay-at-home mom to her twins. She can't wait to get back to work. But her world is turned upside down by shocking news and her husband's expectations. Hayley Batchelor desperately wants a baby of her own. She and her husband have tried everything. But she's willing to keep trying even if that means destroying her marriage, going against her doctor's wishes and risking her life. Nicole Lord is recently divorced and living a great life with her six-year-old son Tyler. She meets the perfect guy but is terrified to get involved. It's better to be alone than to get hurt, right? Family, friendships and cute shop names (latte-da, the slice is right) give this book a cozy vibe. The book was realistic (although what happened with Hayley towards the end was

Jenny Kramer is brutally raped in the woods outside of a house party. In the hours immediately after, her parents are given a choice to allow the doctors to give Jenny a drug that will immediately erase her memory of the assault. Her father does not want her to be given the drug, he wants Jenny to remember her attacker so he can be punished, but her mother absolutely wants it so her daughter can be "fixed" and they can all move on like it never happened. But in the months that follow, Jenny has emotions about what happened but no memories to attach them to. Her father becomes obsessed with catching the attacker. No one wants to believe it could be someone in their close-knit community. And things begin to unravel for all involved. My thoughts are all over the place. This book is told by a narrator, which I was not expecting and sometimes did not like. I thought it was going to be Jenny's story, but it seems the narrator told their own story. We learn who the narrator is s

Beth went on a trip to Corsica and fell in love with her trek guide, Jack, and before the trip was over they ended up engaged. When they returned to their everyday lives in the UK, Jack ended their relationship and Beth was left without an explanation and a broken heart. Now, many years later, by sheer coincidence Beth ends up applying for a temporary job at Jack's company. Before her six months are up she finally learns what led Jack to do what he did all those years ago. This is a quick and easy read with a predictable ending, which is why I picked it up. But I started to lose interest at the halfway point. It dragged on and became repetitious. There were lots of grammatical errors.

Josh Winward has just found out that his sister was murdered. Julia's mutilated body was found in the Thames. Josh and his girlfriend, Nancy, travel across the ocean to England to figure out what she was doing in the months before her death and to figure out who killed her. But nothing makes sense - the company she was working for hasn't been in business for sixty years and she was living in a place that hasn't existed since the second World War. Josh and Nancy run into a woman with psychic abilities at the railway station, and the doors she can open are scary. The concept of this book is cool - Julia started a new life. She had a job. She had friends and a crush at work. But to her brother, and everyone else for that matter, things didn't add up - nobody knew where she was for ten months. It's like she was living in a different world. It could have been soo good! Instead the whole thing was anticlimactic. The last chapter was horrible. I was so disappointed with th

Instead of taking summer classes like her granddad would like her to do Ivy Milbourn is going to spend the summer before her senior year with her best friends having barbecues and bonfires and just plain enjoying herself. But things don't go as planned when Ivy's mother shows up with her two daughters.  Milbourn women have always lead extraordinary (albeit short) lives. Ivy's granddad takes great pride in the name and legacy. But Ivy doesn't see it as a legacy she sees it as a curse - why else would her mother abandon her as a child and go fifteen years without speaking to her?  Underneath that gorgeous front cover is a well-written story with lots of goodies: morals, diversity, a transgender, a biracial guy with tattoos who's interested in poetry, loving your body and who you are, strong friendships/relationships. Ivy and her feminist friend Claire were great! Ivy's mom.. not so much.

Amanda Greene, a freshman in college, wakes up in her dorm room only to find that things are completely different. And it's not because of the fight she had with her boyfriend and the partying the night before. She's sharing her room with a complete stranger, she's enrolled in classes that she doesn't like and didn't sign up for, and an ominous shadow seems to be following her around campus.  I appreciate the creativity and concept for this novella, but I could never really get into it.

No one seems to take Marissa Rooney seriously when she tells them that her daughter is missing. Brooke is in college and it's not like her to miss classes. Or not tell anyone where she's going. Or go anywhere without her insulin. Brooke is not the only one reported missing in the area. Kim Covey hasn't been seen or heard from in weeks. But Brooke doesn't have weeks without her insulin, if she's not already dead. Marissa's fear and determination were palpable. The characters were well-developed and for the most part the writing was good. Great epilogue. It was definitely a suspenseful page-turner.

Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares his story of fame and fortune, drugs and alcohol, his crash and burn, and his transformation after his near-death experience. While growing up in Seattle Duff was no stranger to the music scene, but he needed to get away from the heroin that was claiming the lives of his closest friends. At the age of twenty, and only in Los Angeles a few weeks, he answered a want ad for a bass player. He met Slash and Steven Adler and the rest is history.  I enjoyed reading about Duff's life before the fame. The relationship he had with his mother was sweet. Same with the relationship he had with his dog, Chloe. It's sad that Duff's friends were dropping like flies because of drugs, but when he had to put Chloe down.. OMG the tears!!

Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room. She has no idea what happened to put her there. In fact, she has no idea what happened over the last six weeks. Her parents and her lawyer have to inform her that she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy and she was flown home to the United States thanks to her rich father. But the Italian police want her to come back. Because they don't think the accident was an accident. They think Jill is a murderer. Snippets of memories pop into Jill's head every now and then but she can't seem to get them to stay. She wants desperately to make sense of them so she can clear her name. Deep down she knows she didn't do it, but what if she's wrong?  I enjoyed the writing. I liked reading the blog posts, emails, texts, facebook pages, and police interviews with those involved in the school trip. I liked the suspense. Basically I liked everything about the book right up until the very end. It fel

A young woman has been found dead in a frozen lake. The victim - twenty-three-year-old Andrea Douglas-Brown, beautiful and wealthy daughter of Sir Simon Douglas-Brown. DCI Erika Foster is brought in to lead the investigation. She discovers that Andrea's murder has things in common with the murder of three prostitutes - they were all found strangled, their hands bound, and their body dumped in water around London. Every time Erika finds a clue someone is there to hinder her from getting any closer to the truth whether that someone is her boss, Andrea's rich father, or even the killer.  A well-written, fast-paced serial killer thriller. I couldn't put the book down! 

We learn about the history, the growing popularity during World War II and today's usage of the F word. However the word never actually makes an appearance in the book - it's either "The Word" or just a blank space where it should be. A few things were funny, but mostly it read like an English lesson. The word was just inserted into many different sentences, many different ways (adjectives, verbs, etc.) Props to this man though, a 94-year-old veteran and now author. That's pretty        in' cool!

This is the first book I will not finish, and it bothers me that I will not finish it, but it's too painful to read. I just don't care. I don't care to know what big revelations Liz makes. I don't care about her hike. I don't care what happens with her boyfriend. I don't care what she does when she gets home. I don't even care if she makes it home. I had my doubts I'd like it to begin with but it has such good ratings I figured I'd try it and keep an open mind. It's about a young widow who goes on a three-week hike. She wanted to be alone to do some soul-searching, but her boyfriend informs her he is going to tag along. I stopped reading at 25% and figured I'd skim the rest. I couldn't even do that. I made it to 31% then kinda skimmed the last few pages. Boring. Pure torture.