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Release Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Format: Kindle Pages: 400 pages Genre: Mystery Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis:  What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed? Dahlia Waller’s childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence traveling the country with her eccentric mother. Now grown, she desperately wants to distance herself from that life. Yet one thing is stopping her from moving forward: she has questions. In order to understand her past, Dahlia must go back. Back to her mother in the stifling town of Aurora, Texas. Back into the past of a woman on the brink of madness. But after she discovers three grave-like mounds on a neighboring farm, she’ll learn that in her mother’s world of secrets, not all questions are meant to be answered... Review: This is not a quick book, its slow to build and a bit disjointed.  You know something isn't right from the beginning, since Dahlia talk...

Release Date: November 15, 2016 Publisher: Audible Studios Format: Audible Narrator: Trevor Noah Length: 8 hours 50 Minutes Genre: Biography Buy: Audible | Hardcover | Paperback Synopsis: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of  The Daily Show  began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime  is the story of a mischievous young boy who gr...

Release Date: August 2, 1016 Publisher: Atria Format: Kindle Pages: 480 pages Genre: thriller, supernatural Buy: Hardcover | Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis: Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death, but was saved; of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war. Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder. All in the name of the being they serve. All in the name of the Dead King. Review: I love these books they keep getting creepier and more mystical.  I'm not sure where they ...

Release Date: December 18, 2016 Publisher: Hybrid Texts Format: Kindle Genre: Fiction Buy: Kindle Synopsis:  One night as she is driving back home from a show, she almost runs over someone. She holds her breath, and through the fog they see each other for the first time. Love begins to form in the space between them, in precognitions and thoughts, lights and intimacies. Seasons change. They come to know more things about themselves and each other. Life wraps them in its embrace like a haze, in a vacant space bigger than their eyes can see. Review:  This is a story of loneliness and love and finding yourself.  This novel is almost a poem in its lyrical and atmospheric writing.  Its haunting, beautiful and left me scratching my head wondering what I had just read but feeling better having read it.  Its one of those books that is hard to describe and even reading it leaves you a little lost but needing to go on.  Beautifully written but not for...

Release Date: January 24, 2017 Publisher: Crown Publishing Format: Kindle Pages: 448 pages Genre: Thriller & Suspense Buy:   Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis: When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem’s most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed "The Goddess Murders," in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed on Halloween night in 1989. He finds unexpected help in Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims newly returned to town. Neither believes that the main suspect, Rose Whelan, respected local historian, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover wha...

Release Date: January 3, 2017 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Format: Kindle Pages: 400 pages Genre: YA Romance Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis:  Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett, and Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment-which means the time for speculation is now. So Hawthorn comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance.  A theory way too absurd to take seriously...at first. The more Hawthorn talks, the more she believes. And what better way to collect evidence than to immerse herself in Lizzie's life? Like getting a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and hanging out with Lizzie's boyfriend. After all, it's not as if he killed her-or did he? Told with a unique voice...

I hope everyone had a wonderful relaxing holiday season and got a new stack of books to read. Did you get a new book you love? Share it with me! Leave the title in the comments Do you have a recommendation for 2017? Share it with me. I'm staying away from the TV for the next 4 years to keep my sanity so I have lots of reading time.