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Book Review: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Title: Dark Places

Author: Gillian Flynn

Genre: Thriller, Mystery and Suspense

Release Date: May 5th, 2009

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 3 stars

Purchase: Amazon, B&N, Goodreads

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived—and famously testified...

Book Review: Sunbolt (The Sunbolt Chronicles #1) by Intisar Khanani

Title: Sunbolt (The Sunbolt Chronicles #1)

Author: Intisar Khanani

Genre: Fantasy, Serial Novella

Age Group: Young Adult

Rating: 5 stars

Purchase: Goodreads, Amazon (Paperback), Amazon (Kindle), B&N

Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she mu...

Book Review: Tidal (Watersong #3) by Amanda Hocking

Title: Tidal (Watersong #3)

Author: Amanda Hocking

Genre: Fantasy, YA, Paranormal Romance

Age Group: Young Adult

Rating: 5 stars

Purchase: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N

Her only hope lies with her greatest enemies

Gemma is facing the fight of her life. Cursed by beautiful but deadly sirens, her extraordinary powers have a terrifyingly dark side, and becoming human once more is proving her greatest challenge yet. As she struggles to break the curse, the sirens, Penn Lexi and Thea are determined to kill her...

Book Review: 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

Title: 77 Shadow Street

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Thriller, Horror, Supernatural Horror

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 3 stars

Purchase: Amazon (Paperback), Amazon (Hardcover)

I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton’s history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . .

The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age p...

In My Mailbox (47) / Mailbox Monday (54) / Stacking the Shelves (12)

The purpose of this meme is to share the books that came into our house last week with our readers. These can be ARCs, books we purchased ourselves, books requested for review by authors and publishers, eBooks, free reads we stumbled upon and audiobooks. The only thing that doesn’t count are library books.

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.

Click HERE to view all my ‘In My Mailbox’ posts.

In My Mailbox

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Book Review: The Four Last Things by Andrew Taylor

Title: The Four Last Things (The Roth Trilogy #1)

Author: Andrew Taylor

Genre: Thriller, Psychological Thriller

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 4,5 stars

Purchase: Amazon, B&N, Goodreads

Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder’s on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. When Eddie takes her home to beautiful, child-loving Angel, he knows he’s done the right thing. But Lucy’s not like their other visitors, and unwittingly she strikes through Angel’s defences to something b...

Book Review: Awakening by S.J. Bolton

Title: Awakening

Author: S.J. Bolton

Genre: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Mystery and Suspense

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 4 stars

Purchase: Amazon, Goodreads, B&N

Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Clara’s expertise is needed. She’s ch...

Book Review: The Moonlight Serenade by Kate Hinderer

Title: The Moonlight Serenade (Fascination Island #2)

Author: Kate Hinderer

Genre: Fantasy, YA Fantasy

Age Group: Young Adult

Rating: 4 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

When the opportunity of a lifetime falls into Collette’s lap, she jumps at the chance to intern at Fascination Island and sing on the stage of the Moonlight Serenade. Growing up around the theater, she’s dreamed of making it big since the first time she saw her...

Release Day Party The Return

We’re celebrating the release day party for “The Return”, the second book in the urban fantasy series “The Witch Hunter Saga”.

We’re also hosting a giveaway for two lucky winners! Each of them will receive an eBook copy of “The Witch Hunter” and “The Return”. Want to participate? You can find the giveaway below!

Book Excerpt

Excerpt from The Return (#2 in the Witch Hunter Saga)

Zac vs. Arturius

Zac had become a permanent fixture at Max’s. He no longer cared about the scandalous gossip he was perpe...

Release Day Party Sunbolt: Cause for Concern

I’m hosting the release day party for “Sunbolt” today, a YA fantasy novella by author Intisar Khanani. As part of the release day, the author asked bloggers to post about a cause that concerns us. There are lots of things in this world that concern me, but I’ll post about one topic here.

My aunt is mentally handicapped. I’ve grown up knowing her unable to read, do basic math, and do a lot more things I considered easy to do. The problem was, and still is, that there aren’t sufficient facilitie...