Review: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead - Jenny Hollander - February 2024 There are books you plan to read, and books that find their way to you. This one arrived as a happy accident . a Bookstagram raffle win that led to a small pile of vouchers and the chance to finally pull a wishlist title off the shelf. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander was one of those deliberate choices, and I can say with certainty it was the right one. "She walked out alive and covered in blood. What she couldn't walk out with was the truth." The novel centres on Charlie (Charlotte), a woman who, during her journalism studies in college, survived a horrific event that would come to be known as the Scarlett Christmas Massacre a night when her friends were stabbed and she was the one left standing, bloodied and shattered. In the years since, Charlie has done what so many trauma survivors do: she has sealed the memory off, smoothed it into a shape she can live with, and move...

Review: The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson - September 2022 This book I have had this on my list for a while now and I have read a few of her books and enjoyed them all. This one also captured my attention from the cover as it had a Carrie feel to the book. The Weight of Blood starts with us hearing a podcast about an incident that happened in the small town and was compared to a massacre. The person who is responsible for this was a girl named Maddie. The book then jumps back a few months leading up to the incident with Maddie's truth of being half-black exposed to the school and the bullying begins. The thing is Maddie looks white and has never been allowed to acknowledge her black heritage. Instead, her father punishes her to the closet where the walls are covered with thin, blonde blue-eyed models. Her father's ideal female. During this time, Maddie learns that she has abilities and can move things with her mind and starts to research telekinesis - hence the Carrie r...

    Review: Cross the Line - Book #24 Alex Cross Series - James Patterson - November 2016 First off I do have to confess, I am a James Patterson fan and love his books. Some I can get into, and others tend to fail by not capturing my attention. One of the series I have always seemed to enjoy is the Alex Cross books. However, after the amazing one Cross Justice, I wasn't sure how this would compare. One of the things that I don't really like about mystery and crime books is that sometimes the plot can become quite busy which leaves the reader feeling like they are wading through muddy waters trying to connect all the dots and for me. Cross the Line was a very busy book as we had three different crime angles going from the first people breaking road rules being shot by a motorcycle driver, a cop and his girlfriend are killed in a shop. Then we have several drug house massacres, a hostage situation with a paranoid meth-head who is also a gangster and ...