K is a successful, although somewhat burnt-out, 30-something obsessed with a game known colloquially as Rabbits. An immersive challenge with origins shrouded in mystery, K delves into the game while never making a genuine attempt to play it himself. One evening, millionaire Alan Scarpio—a rumored winner of one of Rabbits’ previous iterations—confronts K and tells … Continue reading
I’ve been out of the book review game the last six months after hip surgery back in January, so what better way to get me back into it than the third installment of my favorite mystery series? Victoria Jenkins is back with Nobody’s Child, the next book in the Detectives King and Lane series, and … Continue reading
During a freezing winter night, Jenny Holloway’s mother perishes in the snow. Sal was the town drunk and Jenny her doting caretaker, having quit school to move back into her mother’s house after Sal had a stroke. Now that her mother is dead, Jenny finds her life uprooted as she struggles to move on from the role of a carer and find her place in the world independent of her mother’s illness. Her best friend and supporter, Freddie, offers his help along the way until Jenny meets David, a handsome boy from the right side of town. The two are an unlikely couple, and David is strange. Freddie begins to grow suspicious of David’s intentions with Jenny, and it isn’t long before the three of them find themselves embroiled in a plot of mistrust, lies, and murder. Continue reading
As an attempt to encourage regular writing this year, I’ve joined the Get Your Words Out challenge. Because I am so out of practice when it comes to my writing habits, I’ve challenged myself to write 150k words this year, or 411 words per day. That probably doesn’t seem like much in the grand … Continue reading
A comprehensive list of the book reviews I wrote in 2017. Continue reading
I find myself inundated with alerts and e-mails every day, so because of that, I honestly have no idea in what way I found out about Victoria Jenkins’ The Girls in the Water, but the price was right for an impulse buy and I love myself a murder mystery. I wasn’t sure about the first … Continue reading
I‘ll preface this with an admission; I don’t read a lot of young adult literature, so I don’t consider myself entirely familiar with the genre. However, this book was highly praised on a YouTube channel I watch, and the concept really intrigued me, so I downloaded the sample from Amazon and was taken in enough … Continue reading
The main problem with being a fan of police procedurals and equally a fan of character-driven narratives is it causes a bit of a divide when it comes to books I can really immerse myself in. Procedurals are called as much for a reason; formulaic in nature, they tend to err on the side of … Continue reading
There are moments in our lives that shape us, and they aren’t always within our control. I don’t know if people are clay; I don’t believe we are slaves to our experiences, defined purely by our own choices and what is forced upon us by others. People are more complicated than that, situations more nuanced. … Continue reading
I picked up Dead Certain by Adam Mizner, partially because of some of the pearl-clutching negative reviews on Amazon about how pornographic it is, how the writing was terrible, and how it was contrived and confusing. Since I’m a writer, I like to read across the spectrum to get an idea of what works and what … Continue reading
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