rudo_tsaritsar's Reviews (222)


What a ride!!
I got done reading this last night and I’m still in shock with how the books started and ended. Loved it!

***no spoilers***
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer who gets an offer to finish a book series by Verity Crawford, a bestselling author. The offer comes from Jeremy Crawford, Verity’s husband as Verity has been injured.

Arriving at the Crawford home to find research for the next books in the series, she instead finds Verity’s autobiography and it’s dark, twisted, almost evil. It’s an emotional rollercoaster reading about harsh truths and wondering how a person could be so corrupt at the core. Finding out about the tragedies that have occurred and forever changed this family.
Soon the situation in the house starts getting worse and Lowen believes she’s truly going mad. Telling Jeremy the truth about the manuscript and his wife seems the only way to end the madness she’s found herself stuck in. And perhaps she can finally have Jeremy to herself.

This book is definitely worth the praise and I would recommend it!!

I liked the overall story and the fresh take that we got on Cinderella. Cinder being a cyborg was something I couldn’t have imagined and I liked learning about her past as well as the history of her county. Like everyone knows you can’t have a Cinderella story without her wicked stepmother and stepsisters and we certainly got them. I was pleasantly surprised and a bit heartbroken by the twist that Marissa Meyer had in there.

The book mainly focused on Cinder discovering who she is, wanting a better life for herself, and of course falling in love along the way.

I ended giving it 3.5/5 stars.

I honestly enjoyed this book much better than I thought I would. I listened to the audiobook and it certainly added more creep factor than just reading it.

And Then They Were None is about 10 strangers who are invited to Soldier Island by mysterious and wealthy benefactors. It’s not long before they discover that they were only invited for one reason and that reason is their deaths.

One by one, each stranger dies and to everyone else’s shock they all die according to the 10 Nursery Boys rhyme in each of their rooms. With no one else on the island but them, it’s clear one of them is doing the killing. Who could it be and why?

I loved trying to figure out who could have done, why they did it, and who was going to survive. When I got to the end and got the explanation I was shocked at some of the things I missed seeing. Great mystery book that makes you think and wonder about the darkness of human nature.