books – Page 2 – Becca's Bookshelf

Every Last Fear

4/5 Stars – by Alex Finlay – Matt Pine’s family is dead, his brother in jail, and the whole world knows his name thanks to a Netflix documentary. As he navigates the aftermath of his family’s death, he begins to realize there might be more to their deaths than the accident everyone was led to believe.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

5/5 Stars – by Roald Dahl – Willy Wonka hosts 5 lucky finders of golden tickets at his chocolate factory for a day.

Heaven

by V.C. Andrews – 3.5/5 stars – Luke Casteel struggles to afford his family of 5 children. Between the boozing and fraternizing, he concocts a plan that will forever alter Heaven’s life, along with her 4 siblings.

The Song of Achilles

Wow. Just…wow. This book had jumped out to me several times at various book stores before I finally convinced myself to take a copy home with me. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect to find within the pages. Most of us have heard the story of Achilles – how his mother Thetis dipped himContinue reading “The Song of Achilles”

Deadly Décisions

by Kathy Reichs – 4/5 Stars – Dr. Temperance Brennan finds herself in the middle of a biker gang war when she uncovers partial remains of a young girl on gang-owned property.

Death at Greenway

by Lori Rader-Day – 3/5 Stars – Evacuees from London during WWII deal with life during the war while struggling to understand murders and mysterious deaths happening around town.

Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton – 5/5 Stars – Ancient DNA. Dinosaurs. A man with a terribly naïve vision. What could possibly go wrong?

A Most Efficient Murder

by Anthony Slayton – 4/5 Stars – Family secrets surface during the investigation of the murder of a mysterious woman during Lord Unsworth’s party.

The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse

by PJ Fitzsimmons – 4/5 Stars – Witty amateur detective Anty Boisjoly sets out to assist a friend uncover if the death of a family member was murder…or an ancient curse.

My Plain Jane

by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows – 5/5 Stars – Charlotte Brontë assists Mr. Blackwood in recruiting her friend, Jane Eyre, to the Society responsible for relocating ghosts. Unfortunately, Jane is in love with Mr. Rochester, a nefarious individual with a sketchy past.