Honest and unfiltered book reviews from an over-caffeinated, sleep-deprived nurse and her never ending TBR list..
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah follows Tully and Kate. They meet one fated night when both are in eighth grade and both desperately needing a friend in the world. They come from completely different worlds; Kate with an intact and overbearing family and Tully from a broken home. Despite being complete opposites, they form a [...]
Hum if You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais follows the dual timelines of nine-year-old Robin, a white girl living in South Africa and Beauty, a Xhosa woman, as their lives intersect after the Soweto uprisings. Robin is left devastated after everyone she knows is suddenly gone at a pivotal point in her life [...]
An Alaskan Christmas by Jennifer Snow starts with Erika. A busy surgeon in Anchorage, she has no time for relaxation or any kind of personal life. Her patients are everything and she’s determined to give them her best at all times. Just when she’s about to start clinical trials for a new drug she’s been [...]
Coldhearted Boss from @authorrsgrey follows Taylor and Ethan. Taylor is busting her butt trying to make ends meet to help support her Mom while she is in school and pay for her sister’s expensive asthma medication. One night at a bar, while down on her luck she eyes a stranger. Instant chemistry flares between them and [...]
The Mistake by @ellekennedy33 picks up after the end of the first book in the Off-Campus series The Deal. In this installment we follow Logan (Garrett’s best friend and hockey teammate from book 1.) Logan has been fighting feelings for his best friends girl for some time now until he happens upon Grace... Grace is a freshman [...]
Dark Matter by @blakecrouch1 begins by following Jason Dessen with his wife and son Daniela and Charlie. Jason takes a trip out to the store when he is held at gunpoint by a man and forced to get into his car and follow his exact instructions. The man leads him into a warehouse and injects his arm [...]
The Deal by @ellekennedy33 begins with Hannah Wells at college, trying to move on after being sexually assaulted a few years prior. Fresh off acing her ethics midterm, star hockey player and captain Garret Graham decides he needs Hannah as his tutor. He needs to maintain his GPA in order to keep playing hockey and he’s relentless [...]
Beyond the Point by @clairecgibson follows three friends Hannah, Avery and Dani when they meet attending West Point together. The timeline shifts POV between the three girls alternating between their days at West Point and their relationships in the present. Each of the girls takes a different path after graduation and you see how the [...]
THIS BOOK. I haven't been able to even write a review for a week because I wasn't sure my words would be able to even do it justice. A Woman is No Man by @etafrum follows three generations of Arab-American women as they navigate their lives in a man's world. Fareeda, Isra and Deya alternate POV's as [...]
Inspection by Josh Malerman begins following The Alphabet Boys. They are a group of 26 young teenagers living in the middle of the forest in a place called The Parenthood. Each boy is named after a letter of the alphabet. Every day they line up for daily inspections where they strip naked and are examined [...]
