Book Review: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

May 19, 2018May 19, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader26 Comments

5 disco balls

Publish date: July 3, 2018 by Dutton Books
Category: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Two Truths and a Lie. 1) Emma is guilty. 2) Emma is innocent. 3) Emma is going crazy.

I just couldn’t wait until July to share my review: because if you still can try to snag an eBook from Penguin Random House’s First to Read program (free!), well then you must! And, then we can discuss the book’s ending…like whoa!

The ending is what makes a thriller/suspense read; it can certainly save a story (i.e. The Woman in the Window IMO). I was not disappointed with what author, Riley Sager, cooked up for me in his latest The Last Time I Lied. Read More »

Book Review: The High Season by Judy Blundell

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader14 Comments

3 disco balls

Publish date: May 22, 2018 by Random House
Category: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary, Summer, Beach Read

A quiet, family oriented town – Orient Point, Long Island – was slowly being infiltrated by frequent visitors of the more glamorous Hamptons. “Was” being the choice word because this summer season the town will be overrun by outsiders looking to take stock in the quiet beach town. They will bring along their “new” ideas for how the town should run and are not quiet about it at all.Read More »

Book Review: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

May 13, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader25 Comments

5 disco balls

Publish date: April 25, 2017 by Atria Books
Category: Fiction, Contemporary, Sports

Purchase Links
Amazon: Kindle Paperback Hardcover Audible
Barnes & Noble: Nook Paperback Hardcover Audio

I could not put this book down, and when I found out there is a sequel set to be released in early June I was ecstatic. I was certainly tardy to the party in reading this and wish I hadn’t waited so long. So, if you were like me and haven’t read it yet – well, you know what I will say next: what are you waiting for?!Read More »

Book Review: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader23 Comments

3.5 disco balls

Publish date: April 24, 2018 by Balzer + Bray
Category: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBT

I had a hard time rating this one a 3.5, but just couldn’t give it a 4 and 3.75 seemed weird. I whipped through this book in two days and love author Becky Albertalli’s writing style. I am a fan of dialogue and witty banter is even better: you get that with this book. I just felt it was missing something. That something special that came with the experience of reading Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

Note: ‘Leah on the Offbeat’ is a continuation of the Creekwood series; Simon being Creekwood #1. It can be read as a standalone – but then you wouldn’t really know the characters and I absolutely recommend reading Simon! That is a given.Read More »

Book Review: The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

May 2, 2018May 3, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader15 Comments

4 disco balls

Published: April 3, 2018 by Riverhead Books
Category: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary, Family Life

This book is a beast, in that the hardcover is 454 pages. I started this book on a Sunday in the hopes of finishing by Wednesday, May 2nd to make the Barnes & Noble Inaugural Book Club Night (on said book). I did it but it was no small feat! Lots of late night reading and carrying the book with me everywhere and reading while waiting on line, or while walking to the subway, or whenever I had a free moment. But, you don’t care about that. You want to know if you should read it or not…well you can only decide that. I just hope you enjoy my comments.Read More »

Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader17 Comments

Published: February 27, 2011 by Ballantine Books
Category: Historical Fiction

I struggled rating this one properly. First, it was beautifully written and if I were just rating that it would have gotten at least 4 disco balls. Second, I despised Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer. If Ernest was a fictional character I wouldn’t have wanted to give this story my time. Not that I did even knowing he was in fact ‘real’, I thought I owed it to Hadley to finish.

Book Review: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader19 Comments

4 disco balls

Publish Date: April 24, 2018 by Random House
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Category: Short Stories, Fiction, Contemporary

You know when you are talking to yourself in your head and no one else is listening but you keep talking anyway? Well, that is the vibe I got when I read most of these short stories and I loved it!Read More »

Book Review: Our Little Secret by Roz Nay

April 17, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader19 Comments

3 disco balls

Publish Date: April 17, 2018 by St. Martin’s Press
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Category: Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Fiction

Ok, I could not put this book down. It was a super quick read and the chapters were short with just enough information that you need to keep on to the next one. I couldn’t really tell where it was going which is great for a suspense read in my opinion. But…Read More »

Book Review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

April 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader41 Comments

I’ve never had an experience with a book the way I did with ‘A Little Life’. Ever. I will never forget how I felt reading it. The characters will stay with me. Oh how they’ll stay with me.

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
– Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

5 disco balls

Publish Date: March 10, 2015 by Doubleday, reprint January 26, 2016 by Anchor
The audiobook on Amazon is only $4.95. The narrator Oliver Wyman beautifully brings the characters to life.
Category: Literary Fiction, Contemporary

This book has become one of my top books of all time. It is not an easy read. It is heartbreaking, it’s a gut punch, it steam rolls right over your heart over and over and over. Cue the ugly cries and heavy emotions. It knocks the wind right out of you. Read More »

Review Swap with Megan @ Ginger Mom and the Kindle Quest

April 11, 2018April 11, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader13 Comments

Meet Megan from Ginger Mom and the Kindle Quest blog. She’s taking over Saturday Nite Reader today while I take over Ginger Mom and the Kindle Quest!

We chose to swap reviews of our current favorite reads of 2018 (so far). Enjoy!

Before we start, get to know a bit about Megan:

Megan is a 30-something (like me…age ain’t nothing but a #!) Christian author-in-training who is married to her very own Prince Charming and mama to two spunky, adorable, fun-loving, hyper, hilarious, strangely frustrating, beautiful kids who regularly keep her on her toes. Megan (again, like me!) is a #coffeeaddict and a lover of good chocolate. You can usually find her either chasing her kidlets or with her nose buried in a good book, trying to shrink her Tardis-sized TBR pile.

Book Review: Somebody’s Daughter by Rochelle B. Weinstein

April 8, 2018August 24, 2018 Saturday Nite Reader15 Comments

4.5 disco balls

Publish Date: April 17, 2018 by Lake Union Publishing
Purchase: Amazon US kindle unlimited eligible, Amazon UK
Category: Women’s Fiction, Family Life

The Ross Family on the outside are poster children for a successful nuclear family. Bobby and Emma Ross fell in love as children, only loved each other and would get married and have twin girls. The night of the girls fifteenth birthday the family will be changed forever. A video of one of the twins engaging in a sexual act is sent as an anonymous text to their peers.

Besides what this does to a young daughter the “shameful” event triggers a memory of a painful mistake for Emma (and will affect how she reacts). Bobby can’t comprehend how his daughter could do such a thing and distances himself from the family when they need him the most. The facade of a perfect family is just that, fake. Will this act – along with Emma and Bobby’s actions – be the end of the Ross family?