Best Friends Forever by Margot Hunt is about two different women that by chance become friends one day when their airplane was delayed. Alice is a stay at home mother who has two children and a marriage that feels strained at times due to her and her husband, Todd living paycheck to paycheck. Kat, on the other hand, is a wealthy woman who owns an art gallery. Kat and Alice tend to go on a lot of lunch dates and confide in one another as well as tell each other secrets. Kat’s husband, Howard was found dead at their home one night while Kat was not home. Police are thinking it was not an accidental death from Howard being drunk or a suicide attempt, but he was actually murdered. Kat will not return any of Alice’s phone calls, text messages, and basically ignores Alice all around.

The story is told in past and present. I really enjoyed reading how Kat and Alice first met, then how their relationship grew and progressed. Then, I enjoyed reading the present-day sections to see how Alice was coping with Kat not wanting to be around, the police investigation, and how life went on without her best friend as well as finding out a new narrative about Kat.

This book was fast paced and I never found a dull moment in the book. Margot Hunt’s writing made me want to know more about Kat and Alice’s friendship as well as their marriages. Also, I wanted to know if Howard was murdered or not, and if he was, then I wanted to know who actually murdered him.


Best Friends Forever releases on January 23, and I cannot wait to see more work from Margot Hunt in the future.

Rating: 5/5 Stars
How far will you go to protect your family and find ways to keep it together? How well do you think you know your husband? Vivian works for the CIA in the Russian department and is close to finding some information about sleepers. What she I’m finds out is her husband is living a double life and starts to feel like her whole marriage has been a sham. Blackmail and secrets become a thing of Vivian’s life.
I really enjoyed Need to Know. The book was well written and gripped me from the first page. I did not want to the book to end and I wish and hope for a sequel.
Need to Know will be out on January 23, 2018. Thank you Netgalley and Ballantine for the galley.

4/5 Stars
Emma in the Night is about two sisters name Emma and Cass. They both go missing and three years later Cass shows up without Emma. This leads to questions of why did only one of the sisters come back after 3 years. Stories don’t add up. There is a possible crime and a person that may have a narcissistic personality disorder. The story is told from the point of view of Cass and Dr. Winters.
I really enjoyed the twist and turns of the story. The background and all of the stories being told were interesting and I was not trusting anything that was being said.

Anne and Marco are parents to a six month old baby girl named Cora. One night Anne and Marco are invited next door to Cynthia’s townhome for a birthday dinner, but Cynthia does not want any children over because Cora is a fussy baby. Anne and Marco’s babysitter cancels on them, which leads them to leaving Cora home alone in their townhouse. Since they would be over in the townhouse next to them, they would use their baby monitor and take turns every half an hour to check on Cora. When they return to their home at 1:30 AM, they notice the front door is open and that Cora is missing. This leads to Anne calling the police.
The Couple Next Door is told in multiple perspectives with a ton of secrets, manipulation, and a representation of mental illness.
I really enjoyed the twists and turns of the story with the constant guessing of who kidnapped Cora. The ending was satisfying and something I was not expecting.

DNF @17%.
Couldn’t get into the book. The book is well written, but the story didn’t pull me in and was leaving me bored. Also, I was not connecting with the characters.

My heart is still racing on how Everless ended.
Everless is set in a fantasy based world where your blood is worth your time as well as money. There have been stories of a Sorceress and Alchemist that once walked Sempera. Supposedly, the Alchemist took something from the Sorceress and bonded time to iron. Which, iron in this case is blood.
Jules does not believe in these stories due to how she was raised. Her father and her used to work as servants in Everless, but had to flee due to an accident.
Jules childhood friend Roan, is set to marry the Queen’s daughter. Everless is in need of servants and will pay the servants a year of time. Jules at first does not plan on going to Everless to be a servant, however once she sees how much debt her father is in as well as how close he is to running out of time, she decides she must go to Everless.
Once in Everless, Jules learns secrets of her past as well as betrayals.
Everless is well written and crafted. I didn’t guess a big reveal until a few pages before the reveal occurred. Sarah Holland knows how to hook the readers and keep them sucked into the story. I cannot wait until the sequel comes out, which I really need now.

Rating-5/5 Stars
This book just made it to my list of favorite series/books. Oh, my goodness this book is so good and twisty.
Jude was just an average girl. One day, a cruel man shows up to her family’s home, murdering her mother and father. The cruel man takes Jude, her twin sister, and her eldest sister with him to Elfhame. There they are raised amongst the fairies.
Jude wants to fit in desperately in the world she is living in. She defies Prince Cardan who is a cruel prince. Prince Cardan and his friends delight on picking on Jude and in return Jude doesn’t back down.
There is to be a new High King, however there is betrayal in the air. Jude and everyone else becomes intwined with what is going on.
The Cruel Prince is well written. A lot of different things are going on that will make you go through different emotions. I am really curious on what is going to happen in the next two books to this amazing series.

Abby is an environmentalist lawyer. She moved away from home and comes back years later for a case. She becomes enthralled with the idea that a missing girl named Kasey had something to do with her case. Before Kasey went missing, she got sick. People were saying she was pretending. But, what if she really wasn’t and there was something else, what if there was something in the water? Abby digs into the disappearance and quickly learns that Kasey didn’t just leave, something possibly happened to her. But, what could it be?
Krysten Ritter did a great job writing this novel. I found it interesting at first. But, as I kept listening to the audiobook I was a bit bored. I didn’t find the ending to pack a punch and didn’t find it surprising.

It all started in the summer of 1986 at a fair and the story goes from them. Eddie and his four friends: Hoppo, Fat Gav, Metal Mickey, and Nicky are twelve years old and are best friends. Through the summer some events occur. Friendships break up. At Fat Gav’s birthday he gets a bucket of chalk. Eddie tells Fat Gav, Hoppo, and Metal Mickey that they could use the chalk to create little chalk men with a secret code to let one another where to meet or secret messages. Each person has a different color.
As 1986 progresses the chalk men start to show up in places they shouldn’t be in. Also, the chalk men leads the boys into the woods where they find body parts of a dismembered body.
Flash forward to 2016 where Eddie who now goes by Ed still lives in his home town and still sees Hoppo and Gav. Their friend Mickey comes into town to pay a visit to Ed and around that time all of them get a letter with a single chalk man in it. This brings back the pass and one of their friends is murdered.
Ed tries to figure out who killed the person back in 1986, who sent the letters to them all, and who killed their friend. Secrets come out and sometimes knowing the answers is not a good thing.
The book starts out really strong and was very gripping. Towards the middle of the book, I was not that engaged in it, however I still thought it was interesting. I really liked how the story was told in chapters marked as 1986 and 2016. This book is well done and a bit disturbing. I do think the book could be a little longer to address some burning questions I have and plot holes. But, overall the book was great and well done for a debut book.
The Chalk Man comes out on January 9, 2018.