Book Sale - Downsizing

 

 I am going to bring back my Books 4 Sale page. I have a LOT more books than I have room and my family will be moving soon. That mean that I need to downsize right away. I will try to add them as quickly as possible. Shipping will only be available within the US due to shipping fees. My collection includes as lot of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Grisham. If you are looking for a specific book from one of those authors, feel free to send me an email at TinasReadNReviews@gmail.com

The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Orphans & Foster Homes Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers & Suspense, Young Adult
Format - Audio-book
Length - 5 hours and 57 minutes


*Amazon Blurb*

Olivia was only three years old when her mother was killed and everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large. Now Olivia is determined to uncover who that might be. But can she do that before the killer tracks her down first?

*My Review* 

 

Imagine living your life believing that your father killed your mother and left you behind for anyone to take care of. What a horrible thought. What's worse is when you find out that it's all a lie and both of your parents were murdered. Would you ever be able to forgive yourself for all the terrible thoughts you had about your dad for so long? Would finding their killer be enough to set your mind at peace?

It's hard to believe what Olivia has been through and then gets herself stuck in a similar situation and almost finds herself dead too. But will she be able to find and bring the murderer to justice? 

I did enjoy this book. It moved along quickly and was very easy to follow.

The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Mother and Children Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Length - 400 pages


*Amazon Blurb*

Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.

Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

*My Review* 

 

After reading and loving Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, I was really looking forward to this one. The books goes back and forth between 1875 (with the main character being Hannie) and 1987 (with the main character being Benedetta). I enjoyed the current chapters much more that the ones set in 1875. At first they both started out really interesting, but then the things that kept happening in 1875 just seemed to be way to much a coincidence and just lost my attention. The 1987 chapters, though somewhat predictable, were very interesting to see how someone can piece things together about what seems like another world.

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Women Sleuth Mystery, Psychological Thriller
Format - Audio-book
Length - 9 hours an 34 minutes


*Amazon Blurb*

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

*My Review* 

 

It seems more often than not, the main character in a book irritate me. Camille's mother made me get so angry at Camille for not speaking up to her mom. She is a horrible woman and treats her daughter awful. I wasn't able to figure out the "who done it" as quickly in this book as some I've read. I thought I had it, then something would happen to make me second guess myself. 

Camille was also not very likeable especially when it comes to her old boyfriend. I can't tell you how many times I did an eye roll at her.

2021 - New Year New You?

 

It's finally 2021 and honestly, after the year we just dealt with, I am not holding out much hope for this one. So many people have had to deal with turning their lives upside down to deal with our current "normal". For me that meant homeschooling my 6 year old daughter which hasn't left any of that "me" time to read, write reviews or anything else. 

 

I'm not one who sets New Year's Resolutions. I am, instead, going to try and set some goals. I am going to have separate lists for my goals. I will have work goals, personal goals and my reading goals. My 1st goal for reading is to get caught up on all the reviews that I need to write......well this should be fun.

What about you? Do you set a resolution or have a key word/phrase that you try to live by for the year? Comment below and let me know.

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Kidnapping Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Murder Thriller
Format - Paperback
Length - 432 pages


*Amazon Blurb*

The danger isn’t all in your head . . . 

Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, suggests the two temporarily swap apartments, Kate, an art student in London, agrees, hoping that time away in a new place will help her overcome the recent wreckage of her life. 

But soon after her arrival at Corbin’s grand apartment on Beacon Hill, Kate makes a shocking discovery: his next-door neighbor, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police question her about Corbin, a shaken Kate has few answers, and many questions of her own—curiosity that intensifies when she meets Alan Cherney, a handsome, quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the apartment facing Audrey’s. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from Audrey’s place, yet he’s denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man claiming to be the dead woman’s old boyfriend, who insists Corbin did the deed the night that he left for London. 

When she reaches out to her cousin, he proclaims his innocence and calms her nerves . . . until she comes across disturbing objects hidden in the apartment—and accidently learns that Corbin is not where he says he is. Could Corbin be a killer? And what about Alan? Kate finds herself drawn to this appealing man who seems so sincere, yet she isn’t sure. Jetlagged and emotionally unstable, her imagination full of dark images caused by the terror of her past, Kate can barely trust herself . . . So how could she take the chance on a stranger she’s just met?
Yet the danger Kate imagines isn’t nearly as twisted and deadly as what’s about to happen. When her every fear becomes very real. 

And much, much closer than she thinks.

*My Review* 

 

I was really too into this one. I know that Kate is supposed to be neurotic, but she really just kind of annoyed me with how involved she got with things and then seemed to take everything into her own hands. For me there wasn't much suspense as I felt I was able to figure things out quite quickly.