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Millard Salter’s Last Day by Jacob M. Appel

Millard Salter's Last Day

2.5 stars

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion.

It’s Millard Salter’s 75 birthday. He starts the day meeting with a woman he has recently fallen in love with and helps with her final plans to kill herself that day. He plans to join her in the afterlife at the end of the day. He then goes to his work as the head of the psychiatric department of a local hospital. Millard has his final day planned out between visits with his children, final plans for his colleagues and a visit to his last wife’s cemetery plot. Along the way, Millard thinks about people and activities in his past and steels himself to go through with his plans. Continue reading “Millard Salter’s Last Day by Jacob M. Appel” →

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Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Jane Unlimited

1.5 stars

Ugh. I really wanted to like this book, especially since I really like the author’s Graceling book series. Sadly, this book doesn’t compare to those books at all. I found it to be a jumbled, confusing, annoying mess. Continue reading “Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore” →

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Sleep Like a Baby (Aurora Teagarden #10) by Charlaine Harris

Sleep like a baby

3.5 stars

This is another fun book in the Aurora Teagarden book series. In this book, Aurora has just given birth to daughter Sophie. She and Aubrey are settling into the routine of new parents when the body of a murdered woman is found in their backyard. Once again, the couple is embroiled in a crazy mystery that they can’t help but try to solve themselves.

As usual, the book is a quick, fun, effortless read. It has humor and enough twists to keep the reader engaged to the end.

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant

4 stars

I really enjoyed this book. Eleanor Oliphant is socially awkward and speaks her mind. She works as a finance clerk in a graphic design company. When she was a child she suffered a terrible tragedy which left her with physical and emotional scars. She’s quite content to live her solitary life, eating pizza and drinking vodka. That is, until she has a chance encounter with the new IT guy, Raymond. She and Raymond come to the rescue of an elderly man, Sammy, that has fallen in the street. Her continued interaction with Raymond and Sammy forces her to realize that perhaps she doesn’t have to go through life on her own. Continue reading “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman” →

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Cause of Death (Detective Grace Macallan) by Peter Ritchie

Cause of Death

4 stars

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the first book in the series of Det. Grace Macallan. Grace was a detective in Northern Ireland during the “troubles” and after an incident must leave the City and her job in disgrace. She is hired as a detective in the newly formed Lothian & Borders Major Crime Team, where she hopes to rebuild her life, career and reputation. After getting the team up and running, they are assigned to investigate a series of brutal prostitute assaults and murder. As the team digs deeper into the mystery, tensions rise and secrets are revealed. Continue reading “Cause of Death (Detective Grace Macallan) by Peter Ritchie” →

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The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

The good daughter

4 stars

This was a good book that kept my attention. Charlotte and Samantha grew up in a small town north of Atlanta. Their mother was highly intelligent and their father was a prominent, albeit disliked attorney that defended some of the worst criminals in the county. When a violent assault shatters the family’s world while the girls are teenagers, it changes their lives forever. Twenty-eight years later another tragedy rocks the small town, causing the family to re-live the nightmare they barely survived the first time. Continue reading “The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter” →

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The Rule of Luck (Felicia Sevigny #1) by Catherine Cerveny

The Rule of Luck

3 stars (release date Nov. 7, 2017)

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a fun, quick SciFi/romance book. Although the book is set in the year 2950, it’s not really a true SciFi book. Other than the futuristic tech stuff which is mentioned in passing and the travel between planets, the book is at it’s heart a romance book. Continue reading “The Rule of Luck (Felicia Sevigny #1) by Catherine Cerveny” →

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The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

The Breakdown

2.5 stars

This was an ok read. Cass drives through the woods during a storm and sees a woman in a car by the side of the road. Cass isn’t sure if the woman’s car is broken down or in some kind of distress. Not wanting to get out in the pouring rain, she stops and waits to see if the woman asks for help. When she doesn’t she drives off and goes home. The next day she finds out the woman had been murdered. Too afraid to tell the police she saw the woman but didn’t stop to help, guilt starts to eat away at Cass and affect her relationships in her life. To compound the problem, she starts having memory problems and fears she is showing signs of the dementia that killed her mother. Continue reading “The Breakdown by B.A. Paris” →

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Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre

Places in the Darkness

3 stars (releases Nov. 7,2017)

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a fairly good sci fi book and an easy read. The story takes place at a space station above Earth that is touted to develop the latest technology, while at the same time providing refuge to people trying to escape their problems on Earth. Everyone has a job on the station, sometimes more than one, and they take their free time very seriously. Black market booze, underground sex parlors, prostitution and fight clubs dominant the inhabitants’ time off. The peace is kept by a government security force, for which our lead character Nikki “Fix” Freeman works. She also has a lucrative side business providing security and problem-fixing for the more seedy businesses of the station. Continue reading “Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre” →

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