Review: Alchemy of Secrets - Stephanuie Garber - October 2025 After falling head over heels for Stephanie Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart series and Caraval, I've learned something important about reading order: sometimes it matters more than you'd think. While I adored Caraval, I made the mistake of meeting Jacks first in the Broken Heart series. When I later encountered his portrayal in Caraval books two and three, I just couldn't reconcile them , I'd already fallen for the version of him I knew, and seeing a different side felt impossible to accept. So when I picked up Alchemy of Secrets, I'll admit my expectations were cautiously optimistic. I thought it would be a solid, perhaps average read. Reader, I was spectacularly wrong. From the first chapter , a gripping twenty pages that had me cursing my lunch break's inevitable end. I was completely hooked. Stephanie Garber has crafted something truly special here, weaving together mythology, folklore, a...

Review: The Only One Left - Riley Sager - June 2023 Near the end of last year, I read Survive the Night by Riley Sager and decided that I was going to read all of Riley Sager's booklist I was determined to get it done by the end of 2023 and now I can tick the goal off my reading list as with The Only One Left finished, I am now up to date with his books. This book was set in the 1970s and flashed back to 1929 when it was said that Lenora Hope killed her parents and her sister Virginia. As the Only One Left surviving, Lenora was arrested but let go due to not enough evidence. Now 54 years later, she still resides in her mansion Hope's End and Kit McDeere has been given a second chance as a caregiver after she too was accused of killing her mother in an act of euthanasia. Kit has been hired to be Lenora's nurse and caregiver. In the house still resides Mrs Baker and Archie who have been with the Hope family even before that fateful night. Lenora hopes to tell her story and h...

Review: The Dead Girls Club - Damien Angelica Walters - December 2019 This book captured my attention with the beautiful floral cover and the title. The book starts with Heather receiving in the mail, a half heart of a best friend's necklace. She recognized the necklace from her childhood. The other half of the necklace belonged to Heather's childhood best friend Becca. We learn that Becca was murdered when she was a child and that Heather was involved. The book jumps back to when Heather, Becca, and their two other friends Gia and Rachael were 14 years old and had a love for true crime and urban legends, the girls loved it so much that they would host a group called The Dead Girls Club and would discuss different serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy.  This book is a past/present novel as we read the events leading up to Becca's death and then the present time where Heather is trying to remember the details about what happened and also who knows the dark trut...