Reviews

In Dare Me, Megan Abbot delivers a dark insider’s peek into high school cheerleading. But more than cheers and stunts, the real story is in the relationships developed, manipulated, and reconciled as the characters vie for control.

Mistress of Nothing is based on the true travel adventures of Lady Duff Gordon and her faithful maid, Sally.  In the dry clime of the Egyptian desert, a leading London socialite, Lady Duff Gordon was seeking relief from her tuberculosis.

This book is RoseMarie’s story of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and the five years that she worked for him while he was developing George magazine.

When a serious injury sends Evie Stryker to Fool’s Gold where her estranged brothers and mother have made their home, Evie finds herself at a crossroads.  Evie left Fool’s Gold, and the family where she never seemed to fit in, at the age of 17 to study dance at Julliard and she never looked back.  Then Evie was injured and her mother and brothers moved he

At first I was reluctant to watch The Cabin in the Woods due to the fact that it had been categorized as “horror”. But I was convinced to watch it, as I was told it was much more than your typical “slasher film.” And they were right.

Flash and Bones is number 14 in the Temperance Brennan mysteries, and every bit as fun to read as the first.

Perhaps you missed The Tiger's Wife, a 2011 novel by Tea Obreht.  A fiction title in alternating time periods between current day and war times in Middle Eastern Europe.  The main characters are a girl and her grandfather, both doctors.  This is a beautifully writ

Orphan Jane Williams has lived her entire life in the foster care system. This has given her a particularly hard outlook on life, but her determination to better her surroundings makes Jane work hard for what she has earned.

In Victorian London, Dodger is a 17-year-old rogue who makes his living through thievery and toshing (i.e. scavenging the sewers for valuables). In his world, Dodger knows everyone and everyone knows Dodger.

Pepper (we only ever know him as Pepper) gets into a fight with three police officers who admit him to Hyde Park mental hospital in Queens, New York because a trip to the precinct would involve too much paperwork. Pepper isn’t crazy. He’s just unlucky, and he gets less lucky as things go. The Devil in Silver while billed as a Horror/Thriller – and yes it is terrifying - is at its heart a book about how bad luck has a way of following those on the bottom rungs of society.