Showing posts with label Adult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adult. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Book Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: September 23, 2014
Library: Yup, I checked this book out from myself

Synopsis
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

ARC Review: The Secret Library by Kuchenga Shenjé

The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
Publisher: Harlequin 
Publication Date: May 7, 2024
Library Purchase: Maybe not yet based on the ARC but I really like the concept

Synopsis
1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame—and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester.

Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets—but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife.

Monday, December 11, 2023

Review: When No On Was Watching by Alyssa Cole

When no one is watching by Alyssa Cole book cover
When No One Is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
Publisher: William Morror Paperbacks
Publication Date: September 1, 2020
Library Purchase: Yes which is why I was able to listen to this via the Palace App!

Synopsis
Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning...

Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and