Honest and unfiltered book reviews from an over-caffeinated, sleep-deprived nurse and her never ending TBR list..
The Farm by Joanne Ramos shifts POV as we follow Jane, Ate, Mae and Reagan. Jane is a young Filipino woman looking for work to support her young daughter. She learns of a work opportunity as a baby nurse for NY's most wealthy clients from her cousin Ate. Ate, a well-known baby-nurse in the community [...]
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang follows Khai who we VERY briefly met in The Kiss Quotient. The books are completely separate stories but exist within the same universe. (You don't have to have read TKQ to read this one!) The book starts with My (known later as Esme to sound more Americanized) working cleaning [...]
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar follows Beryl (Berie), on her way to college but questioning her entire existence in this life. It's at the bus station on her way to school that she meets Bay. Bay offers her another way of life and Berie, desperately searching for deeper meaning goes with him. She ends [...]
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 [...]
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker follows the town of Santa Lora, California when a virus breaks out on a college campus. The virus places those it infects in a deep sleep. Some people die - others are quarantined and brought to the hospital where they are hooked up to IVs and feeding tubes for [...]
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly is the prequel to bestseller Lilac Girls. I had the opportunity to read an advance copy of this novel thanks to Ballantine Books, Random House, Suzy Approved Book Tours and Martha Hall Kelly. I was really excited to delve into this one because Lilac Girls is one of my all-time favorite books. [...]
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren is a soul-warming story about Millie, who has always just been one of the guys and her four guy friends: Reid, Alex, Ed and Chris. They are all professors at UCSB and enjoy regularly hanging out, playing board games and commiserating about being chronically single. Millie has always [...]
 The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is a murder mystery that will have you guessing every step of the way. Evelyn Hardcastle is going to be murdered and it's Aiden Bishop's job to figure out who the murderer is. He has no idea who he is or how he ended up [...]
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is a WWII novel that follows the true-story of Lale Sokolov. Lale is living in Slovakia when the government mandates that every Jewish family hand over a child above the age of eighteen to work for the Germans. Lale finds himself on a train intended for cattle, to [...]
Stories From the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers by Marianna Crane is non-fiction collection of anecdotal stories from her time working as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in Chicago. I had the privilege of obtaining an advance readers copy from NetGalley, She Writes Press and Caitlin Hamilton Marketing. Marianna was one of the first nurse [...]
