Picked this up, Dillon goes to VAMPS vampire academy when his half human/half vampire background is explained to him once he is 18. It‘s no Twilight but it is a good YA vampire novel that leads you on Dillon‘s journey into the vampire world. Cozy coffins and flying lessons. Hillary Clinton used as an example of the female high vampire made me laugh. 🤣. Fun or needed example?!😂🧛‍♀️

Saw this on a lot of lists, loved it. Fantasy that has its own twist. A world where bloodlines control ice, fire, wind. Loved the mother/son bond and the strength of women in this book.

Starts off weirdly and I didn‘t know where it was going and then science appears! DNA coding has lead us all to a world where we may not recognize ourselves. 3 family timelines that don‘t want to be connected but are. Good read.

I have found my comfort read in Adriana Trigiani‘s books. Food, family, fights, and found love. Will be reading every book of hers as I read through this year.

Happy New Year and this is book #1 for 2025. At first you think that it is Jurassic Park with wooly mammoths and then you find out what is really happening at this resort. The ending and the afterward is scary, scary real! Science is real! 🧬🧬🧬🧬 Science fiction is great.

Almost done, last book of the yr, no. 82 and it is worth every page! Every character in this book is perfect! I want William to suffer and Aliena to be everything!!!! Who knew building a cathedral could be so full of love and treachery and battle?!

This would be a great book present for anyone who loves sports and the perception of an underdog team. Great history of sign language and the world of quiet. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

I have found my new author that when I need a calming read with food I‘m all in! Valentine makes shoes with her grandma in NYC…Little Italy, a new found love, a trip to Capri and family fights. Love this author and will read the next two of these.

Wow! I was 5, this happened 30 miles from where I‘m from in Kent, Ohio. This is history drawn and explained at its best. Without learning from history it‘s going to happen again. 4 dead in Ohio should not be such a song. Wow…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loved this read. A grandmother who was a wartime Japanese bride who had to move to Texas. A granddaughter who wants to be an architect but who allows a person to squash her dreams. What a story! People be who you are and live your lives!:)

Loved this as a kid. I made sure I had a copy for my grand daughter and bought this one that has colored pics! Still a great little story! Some pig, terrific, humble, radiant!:)🐷🐷🐷🕷️🕸️

I loved this book! Ciro and Enza and their family story of immigration from Italy to America. NYC, the Metropolitan Opera, Caruso, Minnesota. What a story! I would have not had this on my list without finding the authors podcast: You Are What You Read. Read and then find her podcast!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Retelling of Beauty and the Beast with the female lead, Harper who is transported to another realm from Washington DC in present time. Liked that the author had her have cerebral palsy that affects her leg but she doesn‘t let that stop her. First in a trilogy but I think I‘m good…liked this but don‘t think I need to read on…good YA fantasy.

For some reason the start of this book was slow for me. I knew I had to finish it and once you do ..😳😢 Loved the authors notes on the real life midwife Martha Ballard and the story she wrote based on her daily diaries in 1789. Women were always strong and continue to fight.

Watched the Netflix series first then I heard that the author allowed them to change a few things. Usually never watch then read but I did like the ending better on the series. Also loved the beach line dance at the beginning credits after episode one…watched it every time!

Did anyone have to read this? I did and I‘m going to say after getting past his two eggplants this was a heart warming story. Beauty and the Beast for adults! Will I read more probably not but I did like the undertones to this story.

Written in free verse this book would be great in ELA reading groups. Moth lost her family in an accident but finds a friend in Sani. Loved this, can read in one sitting. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋. Good twist at the end that I did not see coming.

Kept seeing this and resisted reading it. Saw someone said how they were learning and made myself pick up the paperback. 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎. Art history, equine science, horse racing in the antebellum South, 3 timelines and a bit of a romance…Loved this Read. Not a horse person but now I am closer to being one. Based on the stud Lexington.

Short and sweet and I loved it. If you are or were or could have been a mother this read is for you. Beach week with the family…this is a great quick read.

Scary as usual, Stephen King mixes cannibalism with poetry with Covid with popculture and real world doings. Loved this one. 4.5 stars. Kings books are always horrifying but I love them. Holly and Barbara are great characters. An earring can kill!:)

I almost bailed and don‘t know why but then by page 144 I was in bc there is time travel in this wonderful book! Good characters and the “mean” books and what they could do…😳. I would just want the book of doors and the book of luck!:). Good read.

5 stars and more for me. This should be a high school read! Grace has lost her husband and son and she herself feels done with life. A house on Ibiza is gifted to her and the story takes off. This is my ya/adult Wrinkle in Time. Anyone else feel that? Loved this read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loved this story that has the best female characters and asks the question “did Shakespeare have a woman and others write for him?” Emilia Bassano is a real person and the authors notes has convinced me…I think we have something to think about with Shakespeare! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Another excellent book by Jodi Picoult.

Liked the premise of this book, liked the intro of readings of each of the couples as they come to Rini‘s Astrological retreat. The story itself and how it was written almost gave me the thoughts to DNF. I made it to the end which was not bad but overall this read was not my cup of tea leaves!:)🍁 🍁 🍁

If you like Dexter and Kay Scarpetta this scary serial killer read is for you. Fast read but man are there some tense situations and the plot twist gets a nod from me. Will read book #2.

Read this in one sitting. Loved how Riley used her mom‘s words from tapes then added her insight. Just a telling of how it was for Lisa Marie to grow up in Graceland. Those sad eyes after her dad passed.😔 So hard to grow up under the legend of Elvis. Priscilla as a mother?😏 The ending got me😢 Addiction is terrible.

Holy moly! Sally is born to a young girl who was kidnapped and kept hidden. They escape captivity and Sally has to learn how to compensate living in a world that views her as strange. Strange until we meet her brother and then I believe Sally may not be that weird! A scary true story. 😳

Another good Stephen King read. Luke is kidnapped and taken to a place where kids with telepathy and telekinesis are molded to “save the world”. Luke and Tim in this read are great characters. Poor Avery! Love Kings books that are scary true!!😳😬

October is scary month and this read fits right in. Who killed the small boys in this small town? Didn‘t they already find the killer? When children are part of the story it‘s beyond scary…😩. Psychologically scary.

My grandfather was Russian and escaped. This story of the Siege of Leningrad brings light to the suffering that has happened in Russia forever. Sisters that want to know why their mother cannot love them. Kristin Hannah‘s books always deliver. The strongest of women survive.

I love this author‘s sci fi books that always include where AI is going and what can be. Mal is an AI that can jump from person to drone to augmented being. In a future war where humans are fighting against the AI enhanced things, Mal leads his new friends to their new way of life. Great characters. Fast fun read that once again makes you think where we may be heading with artificial intelligence. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

WW2, the battle in the Pacific and the college football legends that gave their all to protect our freedoms. The fight on Okinawa and a football game during the war on an island that most of us have never heard of. Easy read compared to some that go into too much military strategy. They were just boys. 😢

#2 in this series, a hurricane may be the best cover for committing a paid for hire killing. Didn‘t see where this was leading but in true Grisham fashion it takes you into the way money is illegally made…pharmaceuticals and the lives of dementia patients…😞. I may have liked this one better than book 1.

First time I dnf‘d it, then the blue edged paperback addition arrived. I loved this read. Loved Oregon Trail and this gaming story is great. Sadie drove me crazy but at the end she redeemed herself, don‘t we all as we mature?! Loved Sam and Marx. Glad I decided that I needed to read what everyone said they loved. It worked this time!:)

I keep reading Ann Napolitano and the books just keep getting better. This is her first book that failed and I give it 5 stars! An Irish Catholic family, loss, the result of Catholic guilt and how women kept quiet in the past. Loved it. Her and Kristin Hannah are my go to authors.

Not as good as the first but this third installment is just another fun read. Oh what Millie faces again…crazy neighbors are out there!

I love time travel and this book is great! Let‘s bring people from the past and maybe the future to fix what we have goofed up all ready in our time…everyone in every timeline is flawed. Love story in a time travel book.. I‘m here for it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Continuation of Brooklyn. I‘m not so sure about the ending, so forlorn. I would have done the same, I‘m not raising that baby!!!😳🤔. Good quick read.

Read this in two days. Not that it was the best book ever but I did need to know where it was taking me. Reality TV, 10 couples take a trip to an exotic island to “win”. If you have watched any reality show we now all know and think, which one did they choose to stir the pot, to be the villain? Loved that she chose a woman scientist to be the fact “finder”. I liked this book, just a fun, who did it and why read.

A list with nine names arrives in the mail and that‘s it. What would you do if your name was on the list? It‘s all good until one by one they die. A fast read is sometimes a good read and I loved the nice neat ending. Never did like Peter Pan! Read it and you will get that.

I like Grisham novels and this one is different for him. Set on an island, Mercer is given the chance to “spy” in order to help find the stolen manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald. Good easy read on a beach and the references of classic books is fun. The ending to me seemed rushed and the epilogue…🤔. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ but I may pick up the other two at the library if I need an easy read.

Really liked this read. The hype was correct. Good characters, a timeline for every chapter, summer camp, and rich people‘s way of life. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 loves that it was set in 1975…girls had it rough. We all know this! Good mystery with two kids missing in a scary wooded area. 🫣🌲

I did like Kala, Helen and Mush as characters but the different views as you go through this story to find out what happened to Kala did not make me think that something really jaw dropping was going to occur…and it didn‘t. Set in Ireland, this mystery was too uneventful for me and at the end…ok I‘m done. 🫤 I did finish it so three stars it gets. 🫤🫤🫤

Loved this book. Connell and Marianne, the people that we watched, knew or were in school and beyond. At first I was skeptical about what I was about to read but then I couldn‘t stop. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me.

Loved this five star read. Saint and Patch are perfect childhood friends until Patch is taken. Their search for the serial killer that has affected both of their lives is chilling. Save the girls. Loved the short chapters that said it all. 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

I‘m glad that Crichton‘s wife allowed Patterson to finish her late husband‘s novel based on a mega volcanic explosion on the big Hawaiian island. It‘s not filled with enough scientific explanations that Crichton would have added but it gives you the dreaded fear of what a giant volcanic explosion would be like. I miss Michael Crichton. 🌋🌋🌋

Small town murder mystery. Margot goes home to Indiana to help her uncle but memories come back of her childhood friend who was taken and killed. With the mystery of her death still unsolved she tries to link a new death to that of her friend. The ending was a bit abrupt to me but maybe since little girls are the ones being taken is why the author ended it to make the reader cringe? It did. 🥺🫣😳🤔

Ok so I love mythology. Was this retelling needed? Now I have read the reviews and I‘m thinking we need to bring back mythology so that we don‘t have to reread stories in a way that are kind of ridiculous? Anyone else feel this way…I did like the story as a whole but the “added” aspects?!

Really loved this book. The inquisition with men in power that would make my blood boil. Loved Luzia who just wants to see the world and to be allowed to pray as she wishes. Don‘t want to love Santangel but I do! Love forever and ever. Good and bad magic makes this a winner for me. 🦂🦂🦂🦂

I liked this Stephen King book. The story of Charlie who saves the life of an older man who has secrets in his shed. The Fairy tale world below takes on a new realm. Clowns are scary and fairy tales are too.