You by Caroline Kepnes Narrated by : Santino Fontana Pages/Time : 422/11h06 Genre : Thriller Series : You, book 1 My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling...

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll Pages : 352 Genre : Mystery Stand alone My Rating : 2.5/5 About the Book  : As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a...

Bird Box by Josh Malerman Pages : 291 Genre : Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows. They are out there. She might let them in. The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall. Soon she will have to wake them. Soon she will have to blindfold...

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pages : 705 Genre : Horror? Stand alone My Rating : 3… 4… 5?/5 About the Book  : […] A young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to...

As I sat here waiting for my copy of Six of Crows to arrive, I kept thinking back to the Grisha series, and what an exciting time I had reading it, and how sad I was I had never taken the time to review it. But it’s not too late is it? I embarked on that fantastic adventure in December of last year, and it’s all still fresh enough in my memory. So let’s do this! (Since I didn’t review the books individually at the time,...

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang Pages : 175 Genre : Graphic Novel Stand Alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. It’s a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It’s a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated...

Nova by Margaret Fortune Pages : 320 Genre : Science Fiction, YA Series : Nova, book 1 My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : *36:00:00* The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am. My name is Lia...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Pages : 181 Genre : Magical Realism, Fantasy Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He...