Book: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

 Book: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead

Author: Jenny Hollander

Pages: 304

This is my 185th read for the year

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9 years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled.  The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nighmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve - events known to the public as Scarlet Christmas - though Charlie knows she was much more than that.  Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life.  She' the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent on never, ever letting her guard down again.  But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everthing she's worked for, Charlie realizes how much she's changed in 9 years.  Now, she's not going to let anything - not even the people she once loved most - get in her way.

Stars: 3

Book: 3 Days, 9 months, 27 years The Time Traveler's Passport

 Book: 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years The Time Traveler's Passport

Author: John Scalzi

Pages: 38

This is m 184th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

A time travel technician must step away from the controls and take action in  twisty short story where timing is everything.  Time travel is real - and used for high-end tourism.  Every moment of the past is open to visitors, and no matter what they do then, everything now waits for them, thanks to the sure hand of an experienced time travel technician.  Come spend a day behind the controls of the time machine, and discover why, this day of all days, it's time for this technician to make a change.  Because sometimes, time travel is more than just an adventure.  Sometimes, its a moral imperative.

Stars: 4

Book: Paper Ghosts

 Book: Paper Ghosts

Author: Julia Heaberlin

Pages: 368

This is my 183rd read for the year

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Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished.  Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in he passenger seat beside her.  He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures.  To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a 10 day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to her haunting photographs.  Is he a liar or a broken old man?  Is he a pathological con artist - or is she?  You won't see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile.

Stars: 3

Book: When The Stars Go Dark

 Book: When The Stars Go Dark

Author: Paula McClain

Pages: 384

This is my 182nd read for the year

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Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature.  When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve.  She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her.  Yet the day she arrives, she learns that a local teenage girl has gone missing.  The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl touched Mendocino and changed the community forever.  As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment.  The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators.  As Anna becomes obsessed with saving the missing girl, she must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. 

Stars: 4

Book: Funny Story

 Book: Funny Story

Author: Emily Henry

Pages: 400

This is my 181st read for the year

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Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story.  How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together.  He really was good at telling it - right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.  Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends, or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak.  Scruffy and chaotic - with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads - Miles is exactly the oppostie of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection.  The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan.  If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?  But it's all just for show, of course, because their's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiance's new fiancee's ex - right?

Stars: 4

Book: Killers of a Certain Age

 Book: Killers of a Certain Age

Author: Deanna Raybourn

Pages: 368

This is my 180th read for the year

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Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years.  Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.  When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own.  Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death.  Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival.  They're about to teah the Board what it really means to be a woman - and a killer - of a certain age.

Stars: 4

Book: Among The Burning Flowers

 Book: Among The Burning Flowers

Author: Samantha Shannon

Pages: 288

This is my 179th read for the year

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It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind.  Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso.  Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name.  Together, they intend to usher in a better world.  A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the Draconic beasts that have slept across the world for centuries.  And now the great wyrm Fyredel is stirring, and Yscalin will be the first to fall.

Stars: 4