Books about struggling marriages are usually not my favorite, but my love for Rainbow Rowell's writing combined with the interesting premise of the phone that can call into the past made me really excited about this book. I was not disappointed, Landline is soaked through with gorgeous descriptions of Georgie's thoughts and feelings as she processes her relationship with Neal, both the wonderful memories and the challenges. The stakes are high as Georgie contemplates whether she should have ended up with Neal, they have two children and an entire life built together, which adds a realistic intensity to her conflict. This is a love story that questions whether the correct thing for the person you love is even to keep them with you. I've noticed with both of Rowell's books I have read that I feel they end too quickly. I think her strength is in writing characters you become incredibly invested in, but that means that I'd gladly read a novelization of the rest of their lives and makes me feel unsatisfied even with the well timed resolution Rowell finds for them.

This was a great book. Really well written story, suspenseful, creepy. I always thought I wouldn't like the Horror genre and I'm realizing I was just really wrong for many years, or have significantly changed in my tastes. Either way, I have a lot of books I want to read now to make up for lost time. Anyway, I loved reading Jaime's story, and the way he was transformed by time and trials and by the impact on his life of his crazed former pastor. King writes with stunning detail unimaginable horrors and perfectly real humans.

Sharp Objects is everything I expect from Gillian Flynn and more. The premise is horrible, the characters all wounded and mean, the plot wicked and wild with twists and turns both expected and unpredictable. For once I actually cared for the protagonist and was invested in her stability as she went deeper into the darkness of small town murders and her own painful past there. Flynn has a knack for writing about really brutal women and the violence they inflict outwards and inwards in a world which isn't really made for us.