My SPOILER ALERT Book Reviews!

⭐ 3.5 Star Book Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager 🚗🔪 👉 Grab your copy of Survive the Night on Amazon here (affiliate link) 🚨 Trigger Warnings Before you buckle up for this thriller road trip, note that this novel includes: 🩸 Violence (including murder, stabbing, drowning) 🧠 Psychological trauma & gaslighting 🩺 Hallucinations tied to grief/trauma 💔 Death of loved ones 🔪 Serial killer themes ✨ First Impressions Okay, so here’s the thing: I’ve loved Riley Sager’s books before ( Home Before Dark and House Across the Lake were excellent 👏), so I went in with some pretty high expectations. The opening? Fantastic. We’re set up with Charlie, a movie-obsessed college student, trapped in a car with a possible serial killer. Classic road trip nightmare vibes. 🚘😱 I was READY. But then… the story started to annoy me. Charlie gets chance after chance to escape — at a diner, with a cop literally right there 🚓 — but she chooses not to because she...

⭐ 1/5 Book Review: The September House by Carissa Orlando 👉 Grab your copy of The September House on Amazon 🚨 Trigger Warnings Domestic violence / abuse (physical & emotional) Addiction (alcoholism) Murder & gore Child abuse (referenced via ghosts) Mental health struggles / delusions 📝 First Impressions So here’s the deal: The September House started out promising —I was intrigued by the creepy Victorian house, ghosts, and the premise of a family trying to coexist with the paranormal. But by the end? Let’s just say the scariest part was me realizing I wasted hours of my life on this audiobook. 🙃 And speaking of the audiobook … while a lot of people rave about it, the constant screaming drove me bonkers . Yes, yes, I know it was “part of the story” (they screamed to be heard over the ghosts/house noises), but it doesn’t change the fact that my eardrums wanted to file for divorce. ⚰️ Spoiler-Filled Plot Summary (You’ve Been Warned!) (Skip ahea...

  ⭐ Book Review: Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus – 5/5 Stars 👉 Grab your copy of Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus on Amazon 🎸✨ 🚨 Trigger Warnings Cancer / chemotherapy Divorce / family struggles Addiction (alcohol) Plane crash / near-death experiences Depression & mental health First Things First: All the Small Things (aka My Thoughts) 🎶 Growing up as a SUPER BIG fan of blink-182 , I picked up this book with both excitement and terror. What if it ruined my image of the band I idolized as a teen? (Yes, I still have my Take Off Your Pants and Jacket CD somewhere in a dusty case 😎). But guess what? My fears were “Dammit” wrong . This book made me smile, laugh, cry, and then laugh again through the tears. I even paused while reading to listen to the songs Mark mentioned, flipping between the pages and Spotify like some kind of emotional pop-punk DJ. Bottom line? This memoir deserves ALL the stars in the sky. 🌌✨ 📚 Spoiler-Filled Summary (Read at Your Own Risk...

⭐ Book Review: Triptych by Karin Slaughter (5/5 Stars!) 👉 Grab your copy of Triptych on Amazon 📚 🚨 Trigger Warnings This book includes: Graphic murder & violence Sexual assault (including in prison) Child sexual abuse references Domestic violence Strong language & disturbing imagery If any of these are sensitive topics for you, go in with caution! My Take 📝 What an exciting detective novel! Set in my very own stomping grounds (Atlanta, Georgia 🍑🏙️), Triptych sucked me in from page one and didn’t let go. Karin Slaughter does what she does best: twisty crimes, gritty characters, and just enough Southern grit to keep you sweating. I loved the characters here, especially Will Trent and Angie Polaski . They’re quirky, complicated, and endlessly entertaining. Watching their messy, trauma-bonded relationship play out was like seeing two magnets keep clanking together and then pushing apart again. 🔄 Fun fact: I’d watched the first couple of ...

⭐ Book Review: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 👉 Grab your copy on Amazon ⚠️ Trigger Warnings Heads up before you dive in: Murder & homicide 🔪 Death & poisoning ☠️ Dementia & assisted suicide 🧠💔 Political & business corruption 💰🏢 Grave desecration & skeletons ⚰️💀 Sexual content 💋 Dark humor & pranks 😏 🤷‍♀️ My Honest Take I tried, I really did. I picked up The Thursday Murder Club thinking it would be a delightful whodunit , especially after the TV-style intrigue of We Solve Murders . But nope… Richard Osman, we have a problem: WAY TOO MANY CHARACTERS. 🙄 The book is funny, I’ll give it that — the banter between Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron, and Ibrahim is clever and charming. But keeping track of all the suspects, townspeople, relatives, and shady developers was exhausting. By the middle, I found myself skimming paragraphs just to keep up . Verdict? 2 out of 5 stars . Could have been a solid cozy mystery ...

⭐ Book Review: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 👉 Grab your copy on Amazon ⚠️ Trigger Warnings Before you dive into this medical epic, heads up: Death of a mother Childbirth complications Infidelity and sexual content Genital mutilation Suicide War, political coups, and terrorism Medical trauma and surgeries Yes, it’s a lot. And yes, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. 🩺 My Honest Take (and why I’m probably the minority) Okay, I’ll admit it: I did not love this book . 😬 I know, I know… millions adore it. But for me, it dragged like a pair of too-tight hospital scrubs in the middle of a double shift. The beginning hooked me — twins, mysterious parentage, a dramatic birth — I was intrigued. But then the middle section plodded . The medical writing ? Excellent. Super descriptive, sometimes shocking, sometimes fascinating. But by page 400 (or whatever it was), I was like, “Do we really need this many appendectomies?” 😂 At the end of the day: 1.5 ...