“It’s an exquisite privilege to watch someone die, knowing you caused it. Almost worth getting dolled up for,” (Skuse). Rhiannon Lewis lives an average life. She lives with her boyfriend Craig in a nice enough apartment, adores her chihuahua Tink, collects Sylvanian family creatures, and is trying but failing to get ahead in her job working …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “But if it was all of us on planet Earth inside this shiny, driverless car, then what would we be exiting, besides reality? What would we tumble into, if not a void?” (Kushner 25). Former FBI and now rogue secret agent Sadie Smith, …
“Forgetting was just another way of leaving, and everybody left eventually,” (Jackson 289). Sixteen-years-ago Rachel Price vanished, leaving her two-year-old daughter Bel in the backseat of their car with no memories of who took her. Now eighteen, Bel is a part of a documentary talking about the case and how Rachel’s disappearance has affected her, though …
“‘You have no idea what it means to be a Southern woman…It means fixing messes that the men make. It means running the Underground Railroad right under a husband’s nose, and it means rebuilding the South after fathers and husbands and brothers started the war with their stubborn pride. The women were the ones that …
“It’s hard…I’m forty-four and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” (Nugent 149). Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why everyone is acting like she did something wrong. Her father told her to put him out with the trash when he died, and that’s exactly what she’s did. But now the media …
“Photos soon emerged: heads on spikes outside of rides, corpses floating in detention cells, and viscera decaying in the humid Florida sun. FantasticLand, where ‘Fun is Guaranteed!’, was covered in blood,” (Bockoven 2). Welcome to FantasticLand, promising visitors that “Fun is Guaranteed!” since the 1970s. But when the deadly Hurricane Sadie destroys the Florida coast, a …
“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?” (Ward 138). Rob is desperate for a normal life, and on the surface she’s achieved it: a husband, two daughters, and a nice house in the suburbs she’s renovated to her …
“One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain anymore. In fact, you need to understand that your brain has become your own worst enemy. It will steer you toward bad choices, override logic and common sense, and warp your most cherished memories into …
“Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse,” (Hoover 31). Things aren’t looking good for Lowen Ashleigh. Her mother died a few months before, her books aren’t …
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. “My stalker is smart, just like I would be. He or she finds the shadows. Shows up when I’m wasted or popped too many little blue pills. So I’ll be far enough away from reality to believe they are …
Sarah O'Connor 