Book Reviews

It's interesting to learn more about psychology. That's the same comment I had about the book The Silent Patient even though it's a completely different genre- psychological thriller, fiction. Both books touched on countertransference. and projective identification. I...

I kept seeing this book pop up on my feeds. There were many discussions and controversy about it that it piqued my interest even more. I like the premise of the power of education to empower a person, and Tara's life being the empirical proof of it. I was only weary...

I had to read this so I could be on my "the book was much better" high horse when watching it on Netflix. It was initially tricky to keep track of so many characters but I enjoyed rapidly going back and forth between them. This book was quite a thrilling ride....

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ” I got drawn into this book...

I got sucked in from page 1. Some might think it cheesy but I was grinning from ear-to-ear being a fly on the wall in the elevator and reading Drew's and Alexa's texts. Such a wonderful setting- interracial attraction, wedding, successful professionals.. All the good...

The book started off quite slow. Instead of keeping me up at night it was putting me to sleep. Yawn. It is very V-E-R-Y slooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooow and loOOOOOooooOOOOng. I'm not much fan of historical settings so the flashbacks to 1700 were an awful drag. The book...

I listened to the audiobook. There is a lot of mischief and some science thrown in. Fun and cute though pretty twisted story. The writing is brilliant. Impressive use of language. So much cleverness to it. I could imagine everything it was so descriptive. This book...

I tried reading this book years ago but I just couldn't get into. Now that I'm trying again I can't fathom why. Wrong timing I guess but this time I was absolutely gripped from page 1. This is a deeply emotional book. A family has a 20 year old son (Jesse) and a 16...

Chapter 1 already had me checking reviews of how much more history the book will be about and they said I will be bombarded with it. Sigh. That was quite off-putting but I thought maybe it will be interesting to learn something. Shrug. "It showed two roads snaking...