Ages 18+
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her summer camp in the Adirondacks. This was fourteen years after her older brother Bear, had gone missing from the same camp, never to be found again. The premise seems intriguing and I was excited to read this one, but I was bored with it about halfway through. Unfortunately this book didn’t work for me.
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
Technically the fourth in the Meant To Be series, this book can be read as a stand alone. It is a retelling of Disney’s Tangled. A bit saccharine, it was a cute story about Ren, a book-smart girl who is sheltered by her parents. She then goes away to college and meets bad-boy Fitz, who is assigned to show her around campus. They end up on a road-trip together and the story goes from there. It dragged a bit in the middle, but ultimately was a triumph in the end.
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Ages 18+
Amber. Daphne. Daisy Ann. And of course, Jackson. They’re back, and what are they up to now? Jackson and Daphne are divorced and he has just gotten out of jail for tax evasion, and Amber is living her best life as a prominent socialite. However, Daphne’s daughter runs away from home to be with her father, and Daphne reluctantly agrees to return to Bishops Harbor to let him have supervised visits. This highly awaited second book was twisty, propulsive. Highly recommend!
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Ages 18+
Scriiiiiitch. Ethan Marsh keeps hearing the sound of the tent being ripped as he was sleeping in as a ten-year-old boy in his supposedly safe backyard with his best friend Billy in his dreams as a now forty-year-old man. This dream haunts him every night. He does everything he does to quell them: therapy, journaling, you name it. But he can’t get that sound out of his head. Follow Ethan as Sager takes us on this journey back and forth from 1994 to present day as Ethan tries to figure out what happened to his best friend Billy thirty years ago. This book was thrilling and a definite page-turner that you don’t want to miss!
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
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