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“Then again, guilt doesn’t always work logically. It might simply be someone with an overactive conscience, taking on blame they don’t deserve but can’t seem to shake, nonetheless. People are strange like that. “
Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
Release Date: April 9, 2024
Thank you @NetGalley & Tor Publishing Group for this copy of #GhostStation. Now let’s get right to the point.
Ever have a book you were really excited about and been left down at the end? That’s how I felt about Ghost Station, the authors first book Dead Silence was so good I flew through it. This one felt like nothing happened for over half the book and then when it started to pick up it was so jumbled and all over the place it didn’t make any sense.
The idea is there but the execution on this one for me was not it.
Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
Release Date: April 9, 2024
Thank you @NetGalley & Tor Publishing Group for this copy of #GhostStation. Now let’s get right to the point.
Ever have a book you were really excited about and been left down at the end? That’s how I felt about Ghost Station, the authors first book Dead Silence was so good I flew through it. This one felt like nothing happened for over half the book and then when it started to pick up it was so jumbled and all over the place it didn’t make any sense.
The idea is there but the execution on this one for me was not it.
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
DID NOT FINISH: 2%
I just couldn’t find the interest for me, I thought I’d enjoy it more. But I do recommend for anyone who is interested in world war nonfiction.
“Oh yes. You can tell a lot about a man from his eyebrows. Nice eyebrows mean he’s wise.”
The Inmate by Freida McFadden
QUICK SUMMARY
Brooke has just moved back to her hometown and took a job she didn’t want to take but has no other option. She’s the new nurse practitioner at the Prison. The only thing is the man she put away for trying to kill her ten years ago is there serving his sentence.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Thank you NetGalley & Poisoned Pen Press for this copy of The Inmate.
This is my first introduction to the author and it wasn’t a bad one. The book was a pretty quick read, I almost thought I wanted more then I was getting until the story came together and I understood why it was done the way it was.
I love when I am surprised and this one handed me a surprise on a a silver platter.
Beware of wrong choices; for those you shall pay. Be wise and choose carefully; strategy saves the day.
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
Release Date: April 2, 2024
QUICK SUMMARY
Sarah Greene and her friends have a knack for Escape Rooms in town. But her struggling parents receive a foreclose notice leaving Sarah with the very real possibility of leaving her friends when he family will be forced to live with her grandparents until they're back on their feet.
Feeling helpless, Sarahs friend mentions a treasure rumoured to be in the walls of an abandoned fun house that was never opened.
Sarah and her friends decide this is the only way to save Sarahs family from being forced to move. The quickly realize they're in the toughest Escape Room ever.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Thank you @NetGalley & SOURCEBOOKS Kids for this copy of #TheMysteryOfLockedRooms by @LindsayCurrie.
This book is now in my top three faves by Lindsay, it was so much fun even though I felt my age with some of the comments from these kids.... SOMEONE NAMED INDIANA JONES?!
This book is filled with puzzles and mysteries and some tough topics done in a way young people can understand. I love the friendships of these three kids, they're real and they're so relatable to kids that age.
I also just found out today, there will be a book two to this series so even better!