-Lock Every Door

Lock Every Door

by Riley Sager

This book is about Jules who is hired to take care of an apartment which the residents are very rich, private and quirky.

So many people believe this building is haunted considering its shady past.

The apartment has its own rules. no nights away from the apartment, no visitors or posts on Social Media!!??AND no talking with the residents!!

And I was:  RUN, GIRL, RUN!!! After chapter 27 till the end :)

It is definitely one of my favorite thrillers of 2019 and I also like to add this quote:

“Never take anything you haven’t earned, my father used to say. You always end up paying for it one way or another.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

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-The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

by Lisa Jewell

For me it was more like a Drama than a thriller. I really like Twisted thrillers, yet I found this book a bit confusing.

Its Libby Jones’s twenty fifth birthday and she is receiving a letter that she has been waiting for her entire life, a letter that will reveal who she is. But one thing she doesn’t know is that others are also waiting for this moment.

The story is told from three viewpoint the first one is Libby, who is working in a company that sells kitchens. She was adopted when she was a young baby and now with this letter on her twenty fifth birthday, she finds out that she has inherited a mansion worth thousands of pounds in Chelsea, England and has to go to the law office and claim it.

The second one is Lucy who Marco and Sally’s mom and is single. Lucy earns her family’s living by playing her fiddle and just when she is so busy thinking how to provide money and take care of her children, she has to join her siblings and meet the girl who inherits her family home.

Lastly there is Henry whose family were the first owners of the mansion in Chelsea. Henry went through a lot seeing his family and his house devastating after David Thomson came along with his family and stayed there.

It was not an anticipated novel for me and until the closing chapter I had no idea what was going on.

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-To Kill a Mocking Girl

To Kill a Mocking Girl

A Bookbinding Mystery

by Harper Kincaid

A small-town girl Quinn Cain who has been teaching English abroad for 3 years returns home to Vienna, Virginia, helping her parents at their bookstore.

Quinn is very happy to be home specially when his brother Bash also returns to Vienna and tells her he wants to stay there and start his own family.

Meanwhile Quinn come across Tricia, a beautiful real estate agent working together with her twin sister.

Tricia is now engaged to Scott, Quinn’s ex fiancé.

On the same day Quinn come across Scott at her favorite diner. And on the same day after midnight she finds out that Tricia is dead.This is where the story begins.

To kill a mocking girl is an easy read and a romance thriller if that genre even exists. :) The characters are well chosen, and it is paced nicely. If you are looking for a cozy mystery this is definitely what you will enjoy.

I can't wait to read more of this series.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for the ARC. 

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-Faker

Faker

By Sarah Smith

Some Books are written to make you feel good, they change your mood and make you happy.

Faker by Sarah Smith #AuthorSarahs is one of these feel good books.

Faker is a romantic comedy. a contemporary romance very much like the Hating Game. It’s about Emmie (our main character) who is working at a power tool company that is a male dominate environment.

She has a co-worker called Tate. He seems to hate Emmie; he takes every chance to be rude to her and ignore her and Emmie gives it right back to him.

They are being assigned to work on a project together and it turns out to be a disaster. They keep criticizing each other and sometimes Tate lets his guard down and this is what confuses Emmie, she cant figure out what his true feelings are.

And when they get to the point to be girlfriend and boyfriend, Emmie caught Tate kissing his Ex-girlfriend at a reunion party.

Faker is a funny and fast read. If you are a fan of contemporary romance, you will adore this book. It is a combination of fun, love and steam.

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-The Starless Sea

Starless Sea

By Erin Morgenstern

The main character is Zachary Ezra Rawlins along with several other characters and puzzle pieces. Zachary, is a young gay man of color and is the son of a fortune-teller. He finds a mysterious book and when he reads through the pages, he reads a story of his own childhood.

eager to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary discovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth.

If you like a story for the sake of the story, then I recommend reading it.

I think Erin Morgenstern writing is like a painting. You can visually follow her story, Her imagery fascinated me. The starless sea is not a normal book it is a complex read and hard to follow. If you enjoy complex fantasy, then you are going to love this. I found no other stories comparable to this book/ Erin Morgenstern has a unique and different way of telling tales. I really liked the love letter to interactive storytelling in video game form.

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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-Cilka's Journey

Cilka's Journey

By Heather Morris

I first read The Tattooist of Auschwitz. That is another amazing story by itself and I will post a review very soon.

Cilka's journey is based on a true story of a woman. It is sad, brutal, powerful and gut-wrenching. It will break your heart and build it back up.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.

From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit―and the will we have to survive.

Cilka was in Auschwitz a German Concentration Camp for three years. The first page starts with Cilka being told she is free. ”Du Bist Frei” . It is the end of the war and she is free to start a new life. But life can be cruel sometimes. This is when she is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis and sent to a Soviet gulag above the Arctic Circle.

I found the book perfectly written and perfectly researched. There are touching scenes that may makes the readers uncomfortable, but these scenes are essential for the story to tell Cilka’s journey.

I was engrossed from page one.

 A phenomenal story of survival and courage. I got to know about powerful women and their will to survive. These women struggle for their lives, and they also have a greater purpose, that is to help others and save their lives.

“Did I tell you about Cilka?" "No, Lale, you didn't. Who was Cilka?" "She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person.”

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-Cinder

Cinder

Novel by Marissa Meyer

A cyborg Cinderella story!

Lihn Cinder is a cyborg mechanic (almost half mechanical) who lives in Beijing a country ravaged by plague outbreak. She lives there along with her fully human sister Pearl, her best friend Iko. Cinder falls in love with Prince Kai when walks into her shop to fix his android. And since then everything changes for Cinder.

cyborgs are paid one pier day for plague research, they are not considered true citizens, thus they can be turned in any time. Cinder’s stepmother turns her in and from there her journey starts, she had an interview with the doctor and set up to be sacrificed.

Marissa Meyer has penned a very creative an imaginative world for Cinder that I found full of potential. The set is in china, but I didn’t find any Chinese culture in this story. The book started without any explanation about Beijing and how or why it became that way.

 Cinder is a Cyborg yet; she is emotionally too human and that didn’t make sense to me.As a cyborg there was only two things she couldn’t do, blushing and crying!!. Personally, I expected a lot more considering the hype. The Idea was great and creative, but I think there was lack of culture adaptation and detailed explanation.

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