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3 stars
The Good Mother is a Desperate Housewives meets My StraThank you Netgalley and Inkubator Books for the eBook in exchange for my honesty review.
3 stars
The Good Mother is a Desperate Housewives meets My Strange Addiction with a side of everyone ignoring the issues right in front of them thrown into a domestic thriller. I'd also like to compare this to a train wreck that you just can't look away from.
I'd recommend this for a quick read on vacation or if you need something to ignore the stress of life, like I did when I read this.
What I did like: This book seems to be addressing some issues that are in the news right now. Men and women thinking women are raped because of what they wear. People thinking everyone in jail is there for a violent offense. It's like Cathryn was basically trying to say with this book, "This is what happens when you assume things and stop blaming women for their own rapes."
Everything that was eh:
Amy reminds me of that girl in high school that everyone knows that expects to always get her way. She grew up thinking women asked to be raped because of what they wore and the things the did that let men into their lives. She lets this get the best of her when Charlotte moves to town and seems to be drawing the attention of her husband and her daughter seems to want to be friends with Charlotte's daughter. She doesn't like that Charlotte is different and assumes that Charlotte's boyfriend is in jail for a violent offense. Amy, you know what they say about people who assume. Also her friends and husband are enablers. Jane, Kit and Rachel's husband Greg seem to be the only sane ones in the group of couples.
Charlotte is just trying to start over her life after her boyfriend gets arrested, but since she's an outsider that doesn't like to wear a bra and likes to take photographs of things (so she can make a living), Amy hates her. Charlotte isn't afraid to confront those who don't want her there. Overall, I really liked Charlotte and wanted to see more of her in the plot.
TW: Rape, paranoia, dead animals, unaddressed alcoholism...more
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I throughly enjoyed this debut Nordic thriller mystery. Ju4 stars.
Thank you NegGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
I throughly enjoyed this debut Nordic thriller mystery. Just when you think you know who the killer is from about 20% in, more curveballs are thrown. I loved the main character and the relationships between the police men. Also loved the mini plot of the side characters.
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I'll admit, the cover drew me in and I'm so glad that I did. WhThank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an eGalley in exchange for my honest review.
I'll admit, the cover drew me in and I'm so glad that I did. What an honest and gut wrenching memoir.
Karen, a daughter of a Brazilian father and an American mother seemed to have it all. She had just gotten married to her American husband Rick after a whirlwind romance. Then, one night everything changes. Karen Keilt shares her story of being victim of abuse and false arrest by the Brazilian Police after they "find" cocaine in the house she shared with her first husband. After Karen is finally released from her captivity, all she wanted to do was talk about what happened, but everyone tells her to let it go. After her husband commits the final straw, Karen and her young son leave for the United States in hope of a better life away from the corrupt Brazilian government.
Karen's memoir is based off her interview with a woman trying to bring justice to those in the Brazilian government that committed the heinous abuses against her, her husband, and many others. I highly recommend it.
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TW: Parental death
Four friends met Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for an eARC and Goodreads giveaway win in exchange for an honest review.
TW: Parental death
Four friends met in the cafeteria while their parents received chemotherapy. Now, after after the last funeral, three band together to try to help the youngest of their group grieve in her own way.
Along the way, dogs are adopted and new romantic relationship is formed with a parent of a new student.
Review:
I really wanted to love this book. It had everything I thought I needed right now: a book set in Anchorage, Alaska, a group of friends coming together to help one another and a cute romance. It was a quick read that I enjoyed sitting down with.
I liked that plot points with the friends helping each other grieve and helping Bridget with her animal shelter dog adoption event.
However, I did not enjoy that the author used Bridget as a plot device to screw up the relationship between Trent and Amy. I also didn't like that the end of the book seemed hastily thrown together.
I would be interested in reading the second book if this becomes a series to see where the characters go. ...more
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Women in Aviation is a quick read (64 pages) with more facts about women in aviatI received this e-ARC from Netgalley in return for an honest review.
Women in Aviation is a quick read (64 pages) with more facts about women in aviation than I ever knew before. Covering women in aviation from both the UK and the United States, Julian Hale gives a brief description of women that paved the way for female pilots today.
Amelia Earhart had the largest section, but as she’s the woman we most commonly hear about it, it was refreshing to read the smaller sections in other females....more
This is the first installment of the Art Deco Mystery series that I have read. Thank you Kensington Books and Netgalley for this e-ARC for an honest rThis is the first installment of the Art Deco Mystery series that I have read. Thank you Kensington Books and Netgalley for this e-ARC for an honest review.
As the is the first installment of the series that I have read, I was a little confused at first about character background. However, I do not think it is necessary to read the other two installments first.
The Pearl Dagger follows Lane Sanders, the aide to NYC Mayor La Guardia. However, there is more to lane than just her day time job at a desk. Pearl Dagger starts out with Lane and her investigator report friend Rourke following and later being chased by two men. After climbing out on a ledge about Grand Central Station, The Pearl Dagger shifts to Lane later being sent to London with her boyfriend and NYC Cop Finn by Mayor La Guardia to dig into what is going on with a troublesome woman named Daphne, who is apparently the heir to a gang/mob/troublesome group called the Red Scrolls.
Along the way, Finn has to battle with family drama that he left behind in England after coming to New York. While there, Lane and Finn find about more about not just his family, but hers as well as they meet with people from her parents' passed that are also connected to Daphne.
In London we see cameos from Mr. Winston Churchill (before he was PM), J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
Things heat up as Lane and Finn return to NYC, where they are both targets of Daphne and her crew. Between a coworker's funeral, Valentine's Day and some Voodoo MacBeth, will the two live to see another day?
As someone who loves cozy little art deco mysteries, like this I am glad that I got the opportunity to read and review this book.
It reminded me a bit of Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series set around the same time in London. I can't wait to read the first two installments of this series in order to understand more of the character development.
This is my first Martin Edwards book that I have been able to pick up and I would like to thank Netgalley, Source Books, and Poisoned Pen Press for thThis is my first Martin Edwards book that I have been able to pick up and I would like to thank Netgalley, Source Books, and Poisoned Pen Press for this ARC. #partner.
The Kind of Golden Age Crime follows Jacob Flint, a crime writer in 1930s London in his newest book. Flint is roped into a circle of crime when chief crime report, Tom Betts, was left for dead in a hit and run accident. Flint finds himself on scene at an apparent suicide thanks to a tip from an anonymous person. From then on, anonymous tips keep bringing him to more crime scenes that may or may not be connected. As Flint tries to get to the bottom of these crimes while talking to investigators, Rachel Saversnake, the daughter of the great Judge Saversnake begins making quite an impression among the investigators as an apparent citizen detective.
Flint begins to uncover clues that may connect Rachel Savernake to the crimes. With a twist that I didn't see coming, and a very involved plot, I would recommend Gallows Court to anyone that likes cozy crime novels, Agatha Christie, and Golden Age Crime Novels.
I look forward to reading more Martin Edwards soon. Once again, thank you Netgalley for this e-galley. ...more
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