Reviews

Staff Review

Celine

By Peter Heller

Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jul 1, 2017

Celine is a savvy, cultured, sixty-nine year-old private investigator and sculptor battling emphysema. Gabriela hires Celine to investigate her father’s death. Paul Lamont, Gabriela’s father, is a famous National Geographic photographer. Lamont’s frequent travels to South America cause friends to joke he is a spy. After Gabriela finds a passport with a different name, she is certain her father was not killed in a bear attack at Yellowstone National Park.

Staff Review

Out of Darkness

By Ashley Hope Perez
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Emily D.
Jun 30, 2017

Out of Darkness is a heartbreaking and powerful read. This is a story about racism, disaster, love and hope.

Naomi is a 17-year-old Mexican living with her half siblings and white stepfather in New London, Texas, in 1937. Naomi is in danger of her stepfather's wrath and abuse, but she'll do anything for her siblings.

Staff Review

It's Always the Husband

By Michele Campbell
Star Rating
★★

Rated by Heather B.
Jun 28, 2017

Aubrey, Jenny, and Kate are thrown together as roommates their freshman year at Ivy league Carlisle College. Despite their vastly different personalities--and the betrayal, in-fighting, and back-biting among them--they claim to be the closest of friends until a tragic accident (or is it a murder?) at the end of the year tears them apart. But their stories don't end there. Twenty years later, they're all back in their college town, and one of the three dies in an accident (or is it a murder?) suspiciously similar to the one they were involved with as students. 

Staff Review

Behind Her Eyes

By Sarah Pinborough
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Catherine G.
Jun 26, 2017

I picked up Behind Her Eyes simply because Stephen King said it was "bloody brilliant." He said you'll never see the ending coming. I decided if he couldn't figure it out, then it must be good. Even if some of his books are too terrifying to read, I think King is a genius.

Staff Review

The Woman in Cabin 10

By Ruth Ware
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Hilary S.
Jun 24, 2017

In this latest novel from Ruth Ware, travel writer Lo Blacklock gets the opportunity of a lifetime to go on the maiden voyage of the Aurora, a luxury cruise ship. Days before, however, a break-in at her flat while she is home leaves her rattled and shaken. Lo settles in to her cabin to get ready for a formal dinner the first night, only to discover she's got no mascara--it was in her purse when it was stolen. She decides to borrow some from another passenger, goes next door, and meets her neighbor, a mysterious woman who seems in a hurry to get rid of her.

Staff Review

The Weight of Blood

By Laura McHugh
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Helen H.
Jun 22, 2017

Told in alternating perspectives of members of the Dane family from both the past and the present, McHugh builds a twisted and disturbing portrait of a family with deep, dark secrets.

Staff Review

Kubo and the Two Strings

By Laika

Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jun 20, 2017

"If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see and hear, no matter how unusual it may seem. And please be warned, if you fidget, if you look away, if you forget any part of what I tell you, even for an instant, then our hero will surely perish."

Thus begins the saga of Kubo.

Staff Review

The Roanoke Girls

By Amy Engel
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Helen H.
Jun 18, 2017

Lane is just fifteen when her mother commits suicide. She is sent from New York City to western Kansas to live with her grandparents. Even though she’s never met them, they claim to love and want her. As Lane adjusts to life away from the dysfunction of her mentally ill mother, her idealistic image of the farm blends with her mother’s version to form a reality she wants no part of.

But home and family are hard to root out, and when her cousin Allegra goes missing, Lane is dragged back into the dysfunction she thought she had escaped when she left Osage Flats ten years before.

Staff Review

Stardew Valley

By ConcernedApe

Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jun 16, 2017

Sometimes you just need something wholesome and peaceful in your life.  Welcome to Stardew Valley.

This simple little indie game that could has made its way from a Steam trial to major consoles. Your completely customizable character gives up on corporate life and goes to live on the farm inherited from your grandfather. You have absolute control over how you live your life from there.

Staff Review

Driving Miss Norma

By Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Sarah As
Jun 14, 2017

I first heard about the “Driving Miss Norma” Facebook page a few months ago and was excited to see that a book was in the works. At first glance, I thought the book might be too sentimental for my tastes, but I ended up loving it and its message, and I would really recommend it to anyone.