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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: Saving Meghan by D. J. Palmer @djpalmerauthor @stmartinspress #savingmeghan #protectmeghan #believebecky

    / April 16, 2019

    Can you love someone to death? In a stunning novel that is part medical thriller, part domestic suspense, D. J. Palmer brings us the shocking and unputdownable story of a sick girl with…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: Death Waits in the Dark by Julia Buckley @JuliaBucks @BerkleyMystery @BerkleyPub #cozymystery #writersapprentice #deathwaitsinthedark #bookreview

    / April 13, 2019

    Nothing cools off a summer heat-wave in Blue Lake, Indiana quite like a chilling murder! In Julia Buckley’s fourth installment of her Writer’s Apprentice cozy mystery series Death Waits in the Dark, a…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: The Loch Ness Papers by Paige Shelton @authorpaige @minotaurbooks #thelochnesspapers #minotaurbooks #bookreview

    / April 8, 2019

    Paige Shelton’s fourth installment in the Scottish Bookshop Mysteries The Loch Ness Papers has it all—wedding troubles, an adorable setting, a bookshop, an eccentric lochness monster enthusiast, and a hunt for the enigmatic…

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  • Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cover Reveal: Mistaken Identity Crisis (Braxton Campus Mysteries #4) by James Cudney @JamesCudney4 @Shalini_G26 #CreativiaPub #BraxtonCampusMysteries

    / April 5, 2019

    Anyone who reads my blog (or follows me on instagram, or knows me in real life…) knows that I LOVE all mysteries and especially cozy mystery series! They are engaging, puzzling, charming, and…

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  • Book Review,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: The Killer in Me by Olivia Kiernan @LivKiernan @DuttonBooks #thekillerinme #bookreview

    / April 2, 2019

    Gritty and realistic! Olivia Kiernan’s The Killer in Me is the perfect blend of crime fiction, captivating narrative, and modern. The documentary aspect brings a certain relevance that makes the novel feel current,…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter @EmilyDCarpenter @AmazonPub #untilthedayidie #lakeunionpublishing #bookreview

    / April 1, 2019

    I have to say, now that I’ve read my second psychological thriller by Emily Carpenter, she is firmly cemented in my top go-to thriller authors. Until the Day I Die had so many…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton @KJHAuthor @HarlequinBooks #ThePerfectGirlfriend #bookreview #bookblog

    / March 31, 2019

    YOU’VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS. You know when you read a book, and you know logically who you are supposed to like and dislike, and somehow you feel…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Historical Fiction

    BOOK REVIEW: The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner @SusanMeissner @BerkleyPub #thelastyearofthewar #bookbestieslastyearofthewar #bookreview

    / March 29, 2019

    A story of friendship, love, loss, and finding out who you really are. Susan Meissner’s latest novel The Last Year of the War follows two American girls who are from German and Japanese…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing @smariedowning @berkleypub #bookbestiesmylovelywife #bookreview #mylovelywife

    / March 26, 2019

    Seriously twisted! I don’t even know how to prepare myself to talk about this book because it is THAT good! When I read My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing, I not only had…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Historical Fiction

    BOOK REVIEW: American Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton @StephMThornton @berkleypub #bookbestiesamericanprincess #americanprincess #bookreview

    / March 24, 2019

    In a powerful story of the dark and light sides of her life, the unconventional, unapologetic, and uninhibited Alice Roosevelt shines through the pages of Stephanie Marie Thornton’s American Princess: A Novel of…

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Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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