The President Is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Fiction, Political Fiction, International Mystery, Mystery
Format - Audio book
Length - 12 hours 55 minutes

*Amazon Blurb*

The White House is the home of the president of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?
An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's best-selling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office - the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities, the soul-wrenching power - this is the thriller of the decade, confronting the darkest threats that face the world today, with the highest stakes conceivable.

*My Review* 

 

Not trying to spoil the book, but I will say that it wasn't nearly as thrilling as I thought it was going to be. It definitely was not what I was expecting at all. The president doesn't just up and vanish without a trace....not really anyways. 

 

There were a ton of characters, which I never enjoy because it's too hard to keep them all straight. This one not only has multiple "good guys", but also multiple "bad guys". Just all too much for me. 

Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Asylum

by Madeleine Roux

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Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘
Genre - Teen & Young Adult, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Thrillers, Horror
Format - Hardcover
Pages - 310

*Amazon Blurb*

For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm—formerly a psychiatric hospital. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on here . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary mental hospital, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

*My Review* 

I think this was a good horror book for young adults. I did enjoy the book, right up until the end. The fact that an old asylum was turned into a college was a great story-line itself. It screams haunted. I mean what teenager wouldn't want to go and stay at an old asylum?
The story flows nicely with the kids meeting up and the trouble they get into. To me it just seemed that with all the secrets hidden beneath the dorms it should have led to more. I was really expecting more "excitement".
The ending seemed a bit rushed too. Maybe it has to do with the fact that this is the first in the series of 3. Overall a good book and I might look into the rest of the series.

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

The Silent Wife

by A.S.A. Harrison

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Rating (1-5) 📘 📘
Genre - Psychological Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Format - Audiobook

*Amazon Blurb*

Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.

*My Review* 

I always enjoy books that are told from two different points of view. This one includes Jodi and Todd.  I give much credit to Jodi for being able to go that far in denial of her husbands infidelity that she is able to continue on like nothing is wrong. Then again, when you have nothing, there's not much to lose. The book didn't see to have much suspense to me as I was basically able to predict what was going to happen right from the beginning. I think it would've been better if Jodi had a bit of a temper in her or if Todd had some kind of backbone, instead of being pushed around by his mistress.

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

An Anonymous Girl

by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘📘

Genre - Mystery, Thriller, Suspense

Format - Paperback

Pages - 371

*Review*

Another book by this team that I was unable to put down once I started reading. The chapters go back and forth between the two main characters, Jessica and Dr. Shields, in the first person. They are short which is one of the reason is was so easy and fast to read. The other reason was the suspense. 

Jessica is your average girl, living an average life while working an average job. Like many of us, she has a dark secret that she's never shared with anyone, that is, until she meet Dr. Shields.

After sneaking into a study to earn a bit of cash on the side, Jessica eventually realizes that nothing in life is free or easy. What starts off as just a an anonymous survey on morals and ethics turns into a test on her own. Jessica doesn't understand the tests that Dr. Shields asks of her, but she does know that the extra money would really help her parents out.

How many secrets would you share with a stranger? How many tests to you do, that go against your beliefs, for a little extra money? And the biggest questions of all, how do you get out a situation where there seems to be no out in sight?

The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

The Perfect Mother

by Aimee Molloy

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘📘
Genre - Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Format - Hardcover
Pages - 317

*Blurb from Amazon


A night out. A few hours of fun. That’s all it was meant to be. 
They call themselves the May Mothers—a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice a week, they get together in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for some much-needed adult time. 
When the women go out for drinks at the hip neighborhood bar,they are looking for a fun break from their daily routine. But on this hot Fourth of July night, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is taken from his crib. Winnie, a single mom, was reluctant to leave six-week-old Midas with a babysitter, but her fellow May Mothers insisted everything would be fine. Now he is missing. What follows is a heart-pounding race to find Midas, during which secrets are exposed, marriages are tested, and friendships are destroyed. 

*Review*

New moms find it hard to get a break from their newborns. It seems that the days are just a blur of feeding, diaper changes and not much sleep. So, is it ok to go out for just a couple hours for a change of pace? The May Mothers think it is and everyone seems to be having a good time, except for Winnie who can't stop thinking (and watching via video) about her 6 week old baby Midas. So when Midas is kidnapped it seems that Winnie must have had something to do with it, but did she? If she didn't, then who did? Go on a journey of a mothers nightmare to try and find her child. Can you guess who did it? The ending was far from what I thought.
The book features different characters as the main point of view which I enjoy because it makes the book read faster.

It by Stephen King

IT

by Stephen King

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre -Suspense, Thriller, Mystery
Format -Paperback
Pages -1184


*Blurb*

Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It.

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.

Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.

*Review*

This book took me forever, but it's also the longest book I've ever read. I've wanted to read this book for a long time too because there's so much hype about it as well as the movies. I promised myself that I'd read the book, watch the original movie and then the new one. I hope the movie is better than the book.

I give lots of credit to Stephen King for the time it took to write this book - September 9th, 1981 until December 28th, 1985. Anyone who loves an overly descriptive book would enjoy this. There was a lot going on. You read from the view of seven different children from two different time periods. You would think that would make it hard to follow, but it was quite easy to keep up with. That was the reason for 3 books instead of just 2. The issue I have was how much detail went into the book. There were some parts that I think could've been left out and it wouldn't have changed anything except the length.

Some people have considered this to be a very scary book. Not once was I scared nor did I find it suspenseful. Overall I was disappointed.

Zoom In On Murder by T. J. Renshaw

Zoom In On Murder 

by T. J. Renshaw

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘
Genre -Mystery, Suspense
Format - eBook
Pages - 91

This short story is about a guy who gets paid high dollars to capture pictures for his clients. The twist.... the pictures are taken while he murders them. It's also has a bit of a love story in it as well.  great story-line, unfortunately, I thought the book was poorly written. I think it could've been a 5/5 book, but the author seemed to be in a hurry to finish it. There was no suspense that led up to the murders. The main character seemed to just jump from one murder to another with no time in between each. It almost seemed like she was trying to fit as many murders in as possible. It would've been better to have had half the murders and more suspense and descriptions.

It was also a bit hard to read due to the poor editing. I found myself rereading certain parts and editing it in my head as I went along, keeping me from enjoying it more.