BLURB: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his…
Tag: audiobook review
The Long Walk – Review
BLURB: In the near future, when America has become a police state, 100 boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is 16-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules – keep a steady walking pace of four…
Home Before Dark – Review
BLURB: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later…
The Switch – Review
BLURB: Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena’s tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it’s time they swapped places… When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about…
A Breath of Snow and Ashes – Review
BLURB: A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North…
His & Hers – Review
Many thanks to Libro.fm for the chance to listen to this book early! BLURB: There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying. Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She’s worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC’s…
The Guest List – Review
So many thanks to Libro.fm for the chance to listen to this audiobook early! BLURB: Set on a remote island off the Irish coast, this is one guest list no one would want to be on, just as no one would have wanted an invitation to the New Year’s Eve party in Foley’s previous novel,…
28 Summers – Review
So many thanks to Libro.fm for allowing me to listen to the advance audio! BLURB: When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he’s not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer….
The Fiery Cross – Review
BLURB: The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the…
My Lovely Wife – Review
BLURB: A couple’s fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting… Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We’re…
The Outsider – Review
BLURB: An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He…
Oona Out of Order – Review
Margarita Montimore blew my mind with this inventive look at time-traveling! I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book for the concept alone. To my delight, BookSparks and MacMillan allowed the Book Sharks a chance at free audiobooks through Libro.fm during this unprecedented time in our world, and I absolutely couldn’t resist Oona!…
My Brilliant Friend – Review
BLURB: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on…
A Fatal Grace – Review
2020 is slowly becoming the year of me finding my love of reading books in a series again. After reading (or listening) to Still Life not long ago, and feeling a bit lukewarm about the story as a whole, everyone who has read and loved this series told me to keep going. They said, “It…
Between Sisters – Review
BLURB: “We all make mistakes, but for Meghann Dontess the terrible choice she made some years ago cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Meghann is now a highly successful attorney, and has put all thoughts of love completely behind her – until she meets the one man who believes he can…
The Silent Patient – Review
BLURB: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the…
Then She Was Gone – Review
Then She Was Gone was my first book by Lisa Jewell, and wow! I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed it! I listened to this on audio and found myself looking for extra chores to keep me busy – always a sign of a great audiobook! I didn’t read the blurb prior to listening to…
Nowhere But Here – Review
Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry is another book that has been on my TBR for what feels like forever, and I’m so excited to finally check it off my list. It has been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a YA book as much as I did with this one. I honestly thought I…
Still Life – Review
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, so I decided I’d give it a try this year since I was able to pick up one of the books at a used book sale recently. This was my first audiobook of the year and I had a bit of…
The Only Plane in the Sky – Review
I can’t think of a better book to close out the decade than The Only Plane in the Sky. This is one of the most important books I’ve ever read, a book I think should be required reading for all Americans, especially the younger generations. BLURB: Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been…
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