The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘📘

Genre - Time Travel, Literary Fiction

Format - Hardcover

Length - 304 pages

*Amazon Blurb* 

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? 

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

*My Review*

I thoroughly enjoy reading this book. If you've ever mentioned "parallel universe" then you'll probably enjoy this book too. Nora basically gets to check out what her "other" life is like. Many people might think that it would be great to change something about their life, but what they don't tend to remember is that each action, each choice has a consequence and can alter everything in your life. Including the things you really love.

The Mother-in-law by Sally Hepwort

The Mother-in-law by Sally Hepwort

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘

Genre - Suspense, Thriller, Domestic Thriller

Format - Hardcover

Length - 352 pages

*Amazon Blurb*

From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, she knew she wasn't the wife Diana had envisioned for her person son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm's length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. And as a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad work to say about Diana...except Lucy.

 

That was 5 years ago.

 

Now Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she no longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc insider her body.

 

But the autopsy finds no cancer.

 

 It does find traces of poison, and evidence of suffocation.

 

Who could possibly want Diana dead.Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both of her children, and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn't even exactly sad she's gone? 

Fractured relationships and deep family secrets grow more compelling with every page in this twisty, captivating new novel from Sally Hepworth.

*My Review*

How many of you either grew up without a mother or had one that you weren't close to? Did you long for the day you got married so you could have that mother-daughter relationship with your mother-in-law? Lucy did. She wanted to have a super close relationship so bad, but was unable to win over Diane. Is Diane a horrible person or is Lucy a bad daughter-in-law. Did Lucy get sick of trying to befriend her and murder Diane? This book will take you on all sort of twists and turn to find out what really happened with Diane.

The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘
Genre - Teen & Young Adult Magical Realism Fiction , Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult Paranormal & Urban Fantasy 
Format - Paperback
Length - 336 pages

 
*Amazon Blurb*

With enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the fifth novel in the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs.With his dying words, H—Jacob Portman’s final connection to his grandfather Abe’s secret life entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly con­tacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. Save Noor—Save the future of all peculiardom.
With only a few bewildering clues to follow, Jacob must figure out how to find V, the most enigmatic, and most powerful, of Abe’s former associates. But V is in hiding and she never, ever, wants to be found.

*My Review*

I am always surprised at how much I love this series. Take a bunch of kids, give them special abilities and watch them work together to overcome anything thrown at them. I mean if you want to get technical about these book (which I am able to overlook), but how can a teenage who is still learning how to use his powers be able to beat these extremely strong adults who have been using their abilities for longer than I can even remember.

Regardless, if you have a teen/young adult reader that enjoys a good mystery then I do still recommend this series.