Review: City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay

City of Flickering Light

by Juliette Fay

Publisher: Gallery Books

Pages: 400

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry.

At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth—iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating—and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn’t come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life.

Kritters Thoughts:  Told through the viewpoint of three very different people who make a decision to completely alter their lives, but jumping off a train and heading to Hollywood to fulfill dreams.  Henry, Irene and Millie were in a traveling burlesque show and they leave quickly to try to make it on their own in the land of dreams.  It is the 1920s in Hollywood and this time period makes things harder for almost everyone in one way or another; this book is a look into many different cultures and how being an other, as most were, made things harder.

The thing I loved most about this book was that not all three of them ended up acting.  Through all three of them, the reader gets an inside look of other behind the scenes jobs in Hollywood, it made the book feel unique.  To spoil just a bit, I liked seeing Henry enter the costuming department and Irene end up in the script department.  

The interesting insight into an early #MeToo movement gave the book more depth and really made me think about the women and how they were treated when in regards to violence against women.  In many books you see women oppressed just in general in relationships or on the job, but to see the early indications of these men taking advantage of women in this industry made this book a more interesting read.  

I have read two out of the five books that Juliette Fay has published at the moment and after reading this one, I want to move the other three up my TBR list fast!


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 16 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

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Review: Love Rehab by Jo Piazza

Love Rehab

by Jo Piazza

Publisher: Open Road

Pages: 230

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accounts—you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love.
 
Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance. 
 
But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone.
 
If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she saves herself in the process.
 
Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.


Kritters Thoughts:  Sophie was recently dumped and she is still not over the guy and the relationship.  When her friend has a run in with the police due to alcohol and is given the sentence of attending AA to turn her life around, Sophie is quickly inspired to enter herself into rehab to get over the craziness that has come her way from her break up.  

I completely adored this book.  I loved all the women that Sophie ended up interacting with and all the stories that came with them.  The many different ways a relationship can end and the many ways that women react to those endings - it was great.  

I loved that this story followed the typical romance arc where just as you think there is happily ever after there is a speed bump in the road and the reader has to wonder for a minute if it will truly end happy.  

This was the best book to curl up with during a month that maybe is focused on love a bit more than usual and see women band together to help each other through life's ups and downs.  


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 11 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: Been There, Married That by Gigi Levangie Grazer

Been There, Married That

by Gigi Levangie Grazer

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Pages: 336

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  When he changes the locks, she changes the rules.

Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties.

But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn’t cover divorce, which is the way Agnes’ life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh, and there’s a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter…which she does. Needless to say, Agnes’ husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time, but Agnes isn’t the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies, personal psychics and “skinny” jello shots, Agnes may be losing her husband, but could that mean getting her own life back?


Kritters Thoughts:  A long term Hollywood couple, he a producer, her a writer hit a large speed bump in their marriage and he has decided that their relationship isn't working for him anymore.  A book that takes all the pretentious Hollywood ideals and blows them way out of portion and for me it just didn't work.

I couldn't get excited about either character.  Agnes Murphy Nash was just a frustrating lady to follow, I wanted so much for her at a few spots in the book and she just wasn't meeting the expectations I had for her - I wanted her to rise above her husbands drama.  Trevor Nash was just an asshole and I really wish to goodness that there isn't a man out there who acts like him.  I could maybe guess that the character was based on one or two people, but I sure hope not because he was just ridiculous.

I continued to roll my eyes throughout the book.  I know it is fiction, but this just seemed like a reality tv show and a soap opera married and had this book as a baby.  

If you love the craziness of the Kardashians in book form - then this one would be perfect for you to pick up.  I need something a little more for my character for me to follow them on a journey.


Rating: enjoyable, but didn't leave me wanting more

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from St Martin's Press.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard

Courting Mr. Lincoln

by Louis Bayard

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Pages: 381

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he’s a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. “I can only hope,” she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, “that his waters being so very still, they also run deep.”

It’s not long, though, before she sees the Lincoln that Speed knows: a man who, despite his awkwardness, is amiable and profound, with a gentle wit to match his genius and a respect for her keen political mind. But as her relationship with Lincoln deepens, she must confront his inseparable friendship with Speed, who has taught his roommate how to dance, dress, and navigate the polite society of Springfield.

Told in the alternating voices of Mary Todd and Joshua Speed, and rich with historical detail, Courting Mr. Lincoln creates a sympathetic and complex portrait of Mary unlike any that has come before; a moving portrayal of the deep and very real connection between the two men; and most of all, an evocation of the unformed man who would grow into one of the nation’s most beloved presidents.

Kritters Thoughts:  An interesting look at Abraham Lincoln's life before he was anywhere near the national spotlight.  He was living in Springfield, IL and there were two very important people in his life - his roommate, Joshua Speed who owned a store and shared a bed with Lincoln and the woman he eventually courted and married, Mary Todd.  Through the eyes of these two people we learn about a Lincoln who maybe isn't discussed that often as a lawyer and starting to speak up about the future of the Illinois and the United States. 

I am an Abraham Lincoln fan.  I could read almost anything about him, but all of what I have read focused on his presidential years, so I appreciated this unique look at a time where he wasn't the immensely popular man that he became.  There are chapters from each Mary and Joshua and it was interesting when their stories overlapped at times to see the same instance through both of their eyes.  

I was completely partial to Mary's story and enjoyed her view a little better.  I don't know if that is because I know her and didn't know Mr. Speed or because I am a woman and I would love to imagine the qualities that drew Lincoln to Mary.  I could have read a whole book solely from her viewpoint and would have loved it completely.  I wasn't aware of the history of their relationship, so it is always nice to learn something new!

An overall great book and I love when I read a historical fiction book and I learn something new while enjoying a great story. 


Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 8 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Algonquin.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: Lost Tomorrows by Matt Coyle

Lost Tomorrows

by Matt Coyle

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Pages: 368

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill’s past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, is dead. When Rick goes to the funeral in the city where his wife was murdered and where he is seen as guilty for her death in the eyes of the police, he discovers that Krista’s death may not have been a tragic accident, but murder. Hired by Krista’s sister, Leah, to investigate, Rick follows clues that lead him to the truth, not only about Krista’s death, but about the tragedy that ruined his life. Along the way, Leah shows him that his life can be salvaged and he can feel love again if he can just move beyond his past. But the past is Rick’s present and will always be until he rights his one great wrong. In the end, Rick is left with a decision that forces him to confront the horrific actions he’ll need to take to exact revenge and achieve redemption.


Kritters Thoughts:  The sixth in a series and I started here without reading any of the previous books, which is very unlike me!  

Rick Cahill is a "retired" police officer who is now a private investigator and has moved away from Santa Barbara, the city that is full of bad memories for him.  He must return as a former partner has died and he wants to pay his respect.  While there her sister asks for his help because there are whispers that her death was possibly not an accident.  And thus he is roped into both drama from the present and from the past.  

There were just a handful of times where I felt out of place and was regretting starting at book six, but I felt as though the author easily brought me up to speed most of the time in a gentle way.  It was easy to keep the car accident with Krista Landingham separate from the clues that were also coming the very outdated investigation of his wife who was murdered many years ago.  

Rick was a great character to follow because as a reader you could trust his skills as he had been an officer and is now an investigator.  BUT I felt as though there were a few times where he got a bit whiny and irritating.  He repeated things a few times and I wanted to tell him that he needed to get over a few things and start moving forward!

After finishing the book, I am drawn to go back to the beginning and start this series.  I may just have to do that this year!  


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 9 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from JKS Communications.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

It's Monday, What are you Reading?

A quiet week and weekend on the home front made for a lot of reading hours!

A meme hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. 

Finished this past week:

Own It by Sallie Krawcheck
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
My Life in Thirty Seven Therapies by Kay Hutchison
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Lawyer for the Cat by Lee Robinson
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay

Currently Reading:

Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audio)
Don't Overthink it by Anne Bogel

Next on the TBR pile:

The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne

Review: Hope Out Loud by Kristina Riggle

Hope Out Loud

by Kristina Riggle

Publisher: NLA Digital

Pages: 126

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Five years after the summer of The Life You’ve Imagined, Anna Geneva’s mother is getting married. This means Anna must return to her hometown and the scene of her infamous affair with her teenage love Will Becker, who was married at the time, with a young daughter. Anna plans to avoid him, watch her mom get married, and hightail it back to her private law practice and her cozy apartment in Chicago.

But in a town as small as Haven, avoiding the elder son of a prominent family is harder than it seems, especially with so much shared history. And Maeve Geneva’s wedding? Well, the bride is starting to worry that maybe she’s not ready to marry again after all, though she swears her ex-husband’s affectionate postcards have nothing to do with that.

Anna thought she’d left her hometown behind for good five years ago, but she’s learning it takes more than two hundred miles along the Lake Michigan shore to put Haven truly behind her…


Kritters Thoughts:  It has been five years since the book The Life You've Imagined and we are revisiting the characters to see where they are right now and when Anna returns home the past will come back up to the surface.  It was great to revisit these characters after some time had elapsed - I liked this concept.  

Anna returns to her hometown for her mother's wedding and of course she will run into those she left when she returned to Chicago to start her own law firm.  The person she would like to try to avoid keeps popping up in all the places - Will Becker.  Will is going through his own stuff as his wife and him have separated and are trying to co parent their two young children and navigate this new life predicament. 

This sequel was a bit shorter than the first book, but I was so thankful for the sneak peek back into these characters lives that the book length didn't affect my enjoyment one bit.  

I would absolutely suggest at starting at the first book in the series and then enjoy this little mini sequel.


Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 2 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle

The Life You've Imagined

by Kristina Riggle

Publisher: William Morrow

Pages: 352

Format: book

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Are you living the life you imagined? Is there anything you’d have done differently if you could? Those are the questions asked in Kristina Riggle’s unforgettable new novel.

In high school, Cami and Anna were as close as they could be…now, years later, both have returned to their hometown to face the people they had once left behind. Anna must confront her mother, still distraught over the abandonment of her husband, and come to terms with choices she had made years before. While Cami returns home to stay with her alcoholic father, she uncovers a secret he sought to keep which could change her life and salvage her future. They reconnect with their classmate, Amy, who can’t understand why achieving the thin body and handsome man of her dreams hasn’t given her the happily-ever-after she desired.

Kritters Thoughts:  Cami and Anna were friends in high school and both have returned home for different reasons and will both have to confront drama from the past that never really was resolved.  Cami returns home to a father who is still an alcoholic and is acting very strange.  Anna returns to a mother who is dealing with her own set of problems and Anna has a set of her own that she is avoiding!  

I fell in love with every character in this book.  They each had unique authentic stories that were each just so interesting and compelling.  I read this book in just two sittings because I couldn't put it down because the characters made me want to just keep reading and reading!  I wanted to know where they were going and what they were doing and it took everything in me to stop and do something on my to do list while reading this book.  

With a large cast of characters with parents and siblings and friends and such, I highly suggest taking a few notes when starting this book.  It isn't that hard once you have a visual on who belongs to whom, but for me this helped throughout the book and if you read book two right after (which I did and will be reviewing later) you can just use the notes for that book also.  

I have now read half of Kristina Riggle's books and all are rated four or five stars.  I want to make it a mission to catch up in 2020 and finish the other three that I haven't read because each time I pick up her book, I get swept into characters and plots that feel so real and refreshing.


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Review: Best Friends Forever by Margot Hunt

Best Friends Forever

by Margot Hunt

Publisher: MIRA

Pages: 336

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  How well do you really know your best friend?

Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they’re very different women—the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite—they’re each other’s rocks. But even rocks crumble under pressure. Like when Kat’s financier husband, Howard, plunges to his death from the second-floor balcony of their South Florida mansion.

Howard was a jerk, a drunk, a bully and, police say, a murder victim. The questions begin piling up. Like why Kat has suddenly gone dark: no calls, no texts and no chance her wealthy family will let Alice see her. Why investigators are looking so hard in Alice’s direction. Who stands to get hurt next. And who is the cool liar—the masterful manipulator behind it all. 

Kritters Thoughts:   Do you have a best friend?  Do you tell them EVERYTHING?  Do you always tell them the truth?  Kat and Alice have been best friends for a few years and when a police officer ends up on the front door or Alice's home, she is left wondering if she really knew all that went on with her best friend Kat.  

I absolutely adored this book.  It was the perfect mixture of mystery/thriller and women's fiction.  The plot worked so well and the book was put together so well, I loved how it switched back from the current investigation to the past where the relationship was coming together.  And the characters.  I don't want to give too much away, but the way they developed and the journey they went on was amazing.  It just did everything right!  

This was my first Margot Hunt read and because of how much I loved this one, it will most definitely not be my last!  If you are hesitant to read the mystery/thriller genre, I would challenge you to read this one, it had just the right amount of eeriness mixed with great plot and characters.


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 14 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: The Valedictorian of Being Dead

The Valedictorian of Being Dead

by Heather B Armstrong

Publisher: Gallery Books

Pages: 272

Format: audio

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Armstrong shares her story of living with debilitating depression and the radical treatment she underwent to cure it. For years she controlled her depression with a mixture of prescriptions, but when their effects start fading, Armstrong experiences an 18-month period of deep depression fueled by suicidal thoughts. Scared of what will become of her and the possibility of losing custody of her daughters, Armstrong opts for a month-long experimental treatment. One of only 3 people participating, she receives 10 doctor-administered treatments, each of which induces a coma that leaves her brain-dead for a short period of time.


Kritters Thoughts:  Let me give the disclaimer that I listened to this book on audio and I am so thankful I did because hearing this story straight from the author in her voice was so impactful.  I completely cried a few times in the book and I would recommend you make time to listen to this one.  

Heather B Armstrong is a single mother of two daughters and while managing two daughters and a full time job without a partner is enough for anyone to handle, she also is battling extreme depression that isn't easily managed with medication.  She doesn't want to be alive, but at the same moment has never considered suicide or how she would want to exit earth because she cares too much for the future of her children.  

First no matter how you read this book, the honesty that Heather provides in her emotions and the lack of hope that she was living with was so unsettling.  But I could hear in her voice that her girls were the one small glimmer of hope that was what was able to push her to try this new therapy.  When she described the treatment I had to listen/read it again, I was so concerned by the depths that she was willing to go to feel better and the lack of medical research on the therapy - she was the third patient!!  

I loved how she structured the book.  It was mostly in chronological order with a bit of back story included when needed to get the reader up to date on her relationships with certain people.  To hear excerpts from her journal and her mother's writing was a great addition to see the personal experience up close.

I absolutely loved this book.  This is the type of book that I enjoy listening to and I hope to continue to listen to books that will broaden my horizon this year.    


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: An Everyday Hero by Laura Trentham

An Everyday Hero

by Laura Trentham

Publisher: St Martin's

Pages: 336

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of bad decisions and even crappier luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she’s supposed to use music to help anyone deal with their trauma and loss when the one thing that brought her joy has failed her.

When Greer meets fifteen-year-old Ally Martinez, her plans to stay detached and do as little as possible get thrown away. New to town and dealing with the death of her father in action, she hides her emotions behind a mask of bitterness and sarcasm, but Greer is able to see past it and recognizes pieces of who she once was in Ally. The raw and obvious talent she possesses could take her to the top and Greer vows to make sure life’s negativities don’t derail Ally’s potential.

After Greer is assigned a veteran to help, she’s not surprised Emmett Lawson, the town’s golden boy, followed his family’s legacy. What leaves her shocked is the shell of a man who believes he doesn’t deserve anyone’s help. A breakthrough with Ally reminds Greer that no one is worth giving up on. So she shows up one day with his old guitar, and meets Emmett’s rage head on with her stubbornness. When a situation with Ally becomes dire, the two of them must become a team to save her—and along the way they might just save themselves too.

Kritters Thoughts:  The second in a series, but this one of those series where you don't need to read the books in a row because there were no characters overlapping.  The only commonality between the two books was their look at military life through unique perspectives.  In this book, Greer Hadley returns home after she fails to make it in Nashville and while home she has a bit of drama which ends her in a courtroom and sentenced to volunteer work for a foundation that uses music as therapy for veterans and their families.  The story begins with her at the foundation and the people that she will impact there.  

What an interesting book.  With two major secondary characters that she meets through the foundation, I fell just as in love with the two of them - Ally Martinez (daughter of a fallen vet) and Emmett Lawson (high school mate who has returned with a major injury from war).  Ally is dealing with the loss of her dad and her mother's inability to cope with the loss and doesn't believe that music can really heal her.  Emmett has returned to live on his parents property and has a huge dose of survivor's guilt and isn't ready to even start thinking about healing both physically and mentally.

The perspectives of the people she interacts with combined with the issues she is dealing with herself made this such a full book to read.  I kept reading and reading wanting to know more and more about these characters and wanted to know where their stories would end up.  The plot moved along so well and the characters felt so real and authentic.

I have only read these two books by Laura Trentham and loved them both, but wonder if I would like books from her other series.  Have any of you read anything from her other series?  Where should I go from here?    


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 3 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from St Martin's Press.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: When You See Me by Lisa Gardner

When You See Me

by Lisa Gardner

Publisher: Dutton

Pages: 400

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective DD Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. And when a disturbing piece of evidence comes to light, they decide to bring in Flora Dane who has personal experience of being imprisoned by Ness.

Their investigations take them to a small town deep in the hills of Georgia where something seems to be deeply wrong.

What at first seems like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister as they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed.

Quincy and DD must summon their considerable skills and experience to crack the most disturbing case of their careers - and Flora must face her own past directly in the hope of saving others.

Kritters Thoughts:  I was already a fan of Lisa Gardner and her character DD Warren before I read this book, so I had high expectations and this one lived right up to it!

DD Warren returns and she is in pursuit of the victims of a serial killer and is heading to a small town in Georgia to get to the bottom of his reign of terror, while in Georgia there are shallow graves found and she must figure out where these bodies are coming from if not the serial killer she is in pursuit of.  

I absolutely loved the twists and turns of this book as the team tried to get to the bottom of it all in the small town.  It seemed as though it was a big and diverse investigative team and although at times it was hard to keep everyone straight, I enjoyed watching them divide and conquer and use their inherent skills to aid the investigation.  The other aspect that I loved about this book was the small town.  It was easy to never trust anyone because the small town feel with everyone knowing everyone else, you could never guess who was going to be part of the villainous crew.  

Whenever I read a Lisa Gardner book I am looking over my shoulder a little extra and second guessing everyone around me!  I hope there are many more books in her future, maybe even some more with DD Warren!


Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2020 Challenge: 1 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Penguin Random House.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.