October 16-22nd Wrap- Up

Current TBR List: 16
Currently Reading: 10
Books Finished in October: 12

I really need to get my “currently reading” books under control… I was able to finish four books this past week though! So that does help out. I started three more though so…

First book I finished this week was Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen. This was my first book from the author and I really enjoyed it! My twin, @thesexylibrarian over on Instagram, let me borrow/recommended Skinny Dip which is the second book in the series so, of course, I had to get ahold of the first one first!

Mick Stranahan is a former Florida state investigator, beating up a judge, even if he was crooked, did not lead him to be a popular man. There is very little shock when a man shows up to try to kill Mick, he just wants to know the reason why, and fix the bill on his stuffed Marlin head. As he starts investigating the hit man his growing list of enemies continues to rise as well as the body count of people associated with him.

Mick’s character is a little overboard eccentric but the other characters love him and you can’t help but love him too. This story is packed full of bumbling villains and heroes, reality TV stars, crooked politicians and hack job plastic surgeons. I can’t wait for book two!

I then listened to 13 Bullets by David Wellington. I LOVED this cover. It just had terror all over it. I was unfortunately not as impressed with the book itself. I am not sure if it was the audio experience or the writing itself but it was hard for me to like the characters, Arkeley in particular.

State trooper Caxton runs into a nightmare when she is doing a sobriety check and runs into a half dead, the creation of a vampire, but vampires should be extinct. Arkeley is assigned to help Caxton and her small town. Why are the vampires so interested in Caxton, why is Arkeley so interested in Caxton. The ending was a bit of a twist and I was interested to see where the plot was going. I think I will pick up book two to see if it can redeem some of the issues in the first book.

The French Girl by Lexie Elliott. Expected publication date February 20^th, 2018. A free e-book form First to Read in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book! A decade after a French girl goes missing she is found, in a filled in well, throwing the group of 6 friends back into the limelight of the investigation. Kate is being haunted by the French girl next door, Severine. What really happened that night? With political pressure opening up the cold case and tension and old hurts pulling apart the once close-knit group secrets are coming to light.

I felt constantly behind in the story. Which is a good thing. Who is who, who did what, what changed that night, what happened before that fateful trip? This was a slow build story but the tension was palpable throughout and kept you frustrated and wanting to know what happened that last night?

I then listened to Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff. This book did not get off to a great start for me. I was a bit bored and was wondering if maybe I should just stop listening and get back to it at another time. Then the plot really starting picking up and I was hooked. I ended up really enjoying this story. Hannah’s best friend died, slowly, right in front of everyone. Lillian now haunts Hannah. The worst pieces of her, the skeletal angry girl right before her slow death from self-starvation. Lillian is not the only young girl to die recently though and not the only one to haunt Hannah. These other girls though were murdered. As the entire city is in turmoil Hannah is fighting to find her place. Who is she now that Lillian is gone? Who is she now as she can’t stop thinking of Finny Boone, the delinquent that once rubbed her face in hard snow. This was a beautiful story and a great mystery with some paranormal haunting involved.  

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