Can't-Wait Wednesday / Waiting on Wednesday #123

Title: Grown
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Expected Publication: September 15th 2020
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery

When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one—the police and Korey’s fans included—has more questions than she does. All she really knows is that this isn't how things are supposed to be. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom.

Before there was a dead body, Enchanted was an aspiring singer, struggling with her tight knit family’s recent move to the suburbs while trying to find her place as the lone Black girl in high school. But then legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots her at an audition. And suddenly her dream of being a professional singer takes flight.

Enchanted is dazzled by Korey’s luxurious life but soon her dream turns into a nightmare. Behind Korey’s charm and star power hides a dark side, one that wants to control her every move, with rage and consequences. Except now he’s dead and the police are at the door. Who killed Korey Fields?

All signs point to Enchanted. 

What are you waiting for this Wednesday? Let us know in the comment section below.

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking The Spine.

Shon Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity

by Colleen Hoover
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Publication Date: December 7, 2018
Publisher: Hoover Ink, Inc
Pages: 333
Genre: Romance | Thriller | Contemporary
Source: Kindle Ulimited

Synopsis

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.


Hello bookworms! I know it’s been awhile. Sorry for the very long absence there! I have been both busy and not busy. I just hope you’ll be happy to join me as I rediscover blogging and reading. You’ll be pleased to find out that I have a book review for you today.

My thoughts:

I don't even really know where to start with this one. Holy crap what did I just read!!!

The story is so twisted it’s hard to talk about the storyline without giving it all away. I will say at one point I was a little disturbed by some of the things, that were said and done in this book. That at time it was actually uncomfortable for me to read.

And that ending! That ending came out of nowhere! My mind was blown! That ending was magnificent and wicked at the same time.

It was an intense read, and I recommend reading it. Just be prepared for your mind to run with possibilities and heart to race.

Happy Reading!

Friday 56! January 4, 2019

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice. Grab a book, any book. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it. Post it.

"A year later they found the remains of Kristal Davis, nineteen, a stripper and a drug addict who'd gone missing a month earlier. Someone leaked to the media that Fayette County was dealing with a serial killer. But no one was really worried. The killer was targeting the types of girls who didn't have anyone to worry about them."

The Darkest Corners by KaraThomas 

 

Happy Reading

Xo,

Wendy

Book Review on "The Lucky Ones" by Mark Edwards

Goodreads:

The Lucky Ones by Mark Edwards

It was the happiest day of her life. Little did she know it was also the last.

When a woman’s body is found in the grounds of a ruined priory, Detective Imogen Evans realizes she is dealing with a serial killer—a killer whose victims appear to die in a state of bliss, eyes open, smiles forever frozen on their faces.


A few miles away, single dad Ben Hofland believes his fortunes are changing at last. Forced to move back to the sleepy village where he grew up following the breakdown of his marriage, Ben finally finds work. What’s more, the bullies who have been terrorizing his son, Ollie, disappear. For the first time in months, Ben feels lucky.

But he is unaware that someone is watching him and Ollie. Someone who wants nothing but happiness for Ben.

Happiness…and death.

The Lucky Ones is the terrifying new thriller from the #1 bestselling author of Follow You Home.

My Review

I would definitely recommend this book if you are into shows like Dexter and a little mix of CSI. Mark Edwards is a great psychological thrill writer. In this book he gives you the point of view of two people who play a major role in the story. The plot had many twist and turns and there was no way I could have predicted that ending! This book kept me on the edge of my seat and did not disappoint. I also liked that he was very detailed and that made me feel like part of the story. I enjoyed this thrill thriller :) Thanks for the awesome read!

XO,

Wendy

Friday 56! May 5, 2017

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

3. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it.

4. Post it.

" I tap my fingers on the steering wheel. Okay, what about this? She was out for a joyride with a boy on his motorcycle. He took a hard turn, and she fell. he took off because He didn't want to get charged. We saw and picked her up."

Dead Girls Society by Michelle Krys 

Goodreads Synopsis:

You are cordially invited to participate in a game of thrills and dares. Tell no one, and come alone. If you dare.

Hope is sick of everyone treating her like she’s breakable. Sure, she has cystic fibrosis (basically really bad lungs), but she’s tired of being babied by her mom and her overprotective best friend, Ethan, not to mention worrying about paying for her expensive medication and how she’s going to afford college. And she’s bored with life in her run-down New Orleans suburb.

When an invitation arrives from a mysterious group that calls itself the Society, Hope jumps at the chance for some excitement. This could be her ticket out. All she has to do is complete a few dares and she just might win some real money.

But the Society isn’t all that it seems…and soon Hope finds that playing the game isn’t a choice—it’s a requirement.

Happy Reading!

XO,
Wendy 

Friday 56! April 7, 2017

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

3. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it.

4. Post it.

" I don't think I realized how true that bullet was until I fired it at my mom. Saying it. I do feel relief. I'm not dying. I'm not dying."

Goodreads: Behold the Bones

Have a great weekend!

Xo,

Wendy

Friday 56! March 31, 2017

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

3. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it.

4. Post it.

"That was all he had to say, when the last time they'd seen each other was naked in a hot tub, halfway across the world? 'So where were you?' 
Atlas blinked. 'I took a gap year, traveled around.' 
'Don't give me that bullshit.' She crossed her arms. 'I know the truth, okay?" 

From: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Have a great weekend :)

Xo

Wendy

Friday 56! February 17, 2017

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

3. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it.

4. Post it.

"Reluctantly, I take a step forward, back into the press box. I wish I had waited to take the pill. I have maybe ten minutes before I start feeling its effects and I don't want to be around Jonathan when that happens."Well?" I prompt him now. His gaze meets mine for a second before quickly sliding away again. "I know you do some work for Elton, but do you, like, really work for Elton?"

From the book:

Don't You Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn 

Have a great weekend :)

Xo

Wendy

Friday 56! January 13, 2017

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1] Grab a book, any book.
2] Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
3] Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it.
4] Post it.

" Her brain hiccupped, and she recalled an e-mail he'd sent about his favorite books. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez. Underworld by DeLillo. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They were some of her favorites, too. Had he really read them?"

From the book:

The Amateurs by Sara Shepard

Have a safe weekend!

Xo,

Wendy

Friday 56! December 23, 2016

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. 

1. Grab a book, any book. 
2. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader. 
3. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it. 
4. Post it.

"MY ROOM IS nearly empty now. There are sheets and a comforter on my bed. A laptop on my desk, a few pens. A chair. I own a couple pair of jeans and shorts...The shelves are bare. No pictures. No posters. No old toys." 

From the book: 

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Have a safe weekend

Xo,

Wendy

Wendy's BOOK HAUL

Hello, Hello!

It's me Wendy

I got back from work last night and came home to my BookOutlet package. There is nothing like a fresh set of books...ahhhhh. I would have taken a picture of my box but I couldn't wait and tore it up like the Hulk. Seriously. My family was looking at me like I was from a different universe. BUT I think this picture makes up for it. Also, I caved and purchased Lady Midnight, without even reading the Immortal Instruments Novels (it's on my to-read list I promise).


From left to right:
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
(Don't You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Soundless by Richelle Mead
Origin (Corpus, #1) by Jessica Khoury Let me know what your book haul consists of on the comments below :)

The Friday 56: June 17, 2016

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. Grab a book, any book. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader. Find any sentence, or few, just don't spoil it. Post it.


"I might not even fit down this thing, but as they crash into the door a second time and it explodes off the hinges and thunders down against the tile, I realize I have no other options."





From Dark Matter by Blake Crouch


Be sure to leave your Friday 56 or the link to your Friday 56 in the comments below.

Shon Review: Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke

Title / Author: Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
Published March 22nd 2016 by Dial Books
Page: 247
Genres: Young Adult, Mystery, Contemporary
Source: Bought Amazon
Rating: 2 stars
 

Synopsis

Every story needs a hero.
Every story needs a villain.
Every story needs a secret.

Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.

What really happened?
Someone knows.
Someone is lying.

My Thoughts...

Because the story is told from 3 different POV it took me a minute to get into the story. Once I figure out who each person was the story moves along very fast and flows easily. I just had a hard time figuring out the plot of the story.

It's a very slow build up to what ever is going to happen.

After 100 pages I still don't not what plot of the story is about.

After 200 pages I think I see a story line.

Wait, what just happen!

The book end. And I still don't know what the story was about.

Shon Reviews If You Dare

Title / Author: If You Dare by A.R. Torre
Publisher: Redhook
Year Published: November 2015
Genres: Thriller, Erotica, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery
Source: e-Book
Rating: 5/5 stars

Synopsis

Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited new novel from A. R. Torre, author of the award winning erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E.

The rules are the same. I can't open the door. I can't leave. I can't kill anyone.

The only difference is, I don't set the rules anymore. Guards in grey uniforms do. It is everything I never wanted and everything I always deserved. I write to you now, from a prison cell. My home for the next twenty to thirty years.

That's the going term for murder.

My Review

OMG!



This is the third and final book in the Deanna Madden series. If you are going to end a series, this is how it should be done.



You need to read this book! Not just this book but the whole series. Reviewing this series is so hard not knowing how much I want to say but I don’t wanted to spoil it for other readers.


This book was told from present and past point of view which was different from the first two books in the series. I was not a big fan of the writing style change.


In If You Dare we find Deanna and Jeremy moving forward. That is till Jeremy, wanting more from their relationship, causing Deanna’s progress to start to slip. In that slip Deanna dose something you never see coming.


I love how this series end. I like how the author did not try to put some fairy-tale ending to the story. I like that story has a real world ending.



There is a lot of sex and sexual activities in this book so if you are not comfortable with that, stay away from this book. Also, thing get very graphic in terms of violence later into the book.

Shon Reviews Do Not Disturb

Title / Author: Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre
Publisher: Redhook
Year Published: April 2015
Genres: Thriller, Erotica, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery
Source: e-Book
Rating: 5/5 stars

Synopsis

Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the daring erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E, by A.R. Torre.

1. Don't leave the apartment.

2. Never let anyone in.

3. Don't kill anyone.

The rules were simple and I broke them.

Now I must face the consequences.

Everyone else must face me.


My Review

OMG! This book was better then the first.

Do Not Disturb (book two) picks up several weeks after The Girl in 6E (book one) end. We find Deanna is still working as a cam girl, but she is now dating and attempting to get out more.

She is continually stepping out of her comfort zone until something happen and she goes back into killer mode for the ultimate game of cat and mouse. In a game so twisted that you can't tell who's the hunter and who's the prey. But in a game so deadly Deanna might just lose everything and everyone that's close to her.

There is a lot of sex and sexual activities in this book so if you are not comfortable with that, stay away from this book. Also, thing get very graphic in terms of violence later into the book when things get freaking insane. There is also mention of rape and sexual assault in this book.

I really enjoyed this book and look forwarding to continuing this series.

I highly recommend.

Shon Reviews The Girl in 6E

Title / Author: The Girl in 6E by A.R. Torre
Publisher: Redhook
Year Published: January 2015
Genres: Thriller, Erotica, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery
Source: e-Book
Rating: 5/5 stars

Synopsis

Enter a world equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades in this first, award winning erotic thriller from A.R. Torre!


My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules.

1. Don't leave the apartment.
2. Never let anyone in.
3. Don't kill anyone.

I've obeyed these rules for three years. But rules were made to be broken.



My Review

Let be honest they had me at equal parts Dexter and 50 Shade. I absolutely love this book.


This book was absolutely fantastic, it was fast-paced book. I try to remember the last time I read a book that I didn't want to put it down.


This book is about Deanna Madden who is a psychopath and a murderer.

In beginning of the story you learn that she has killed somebody but you don't know the details about it until later into the story. So to keep herself from killing she lock herself away in apartment and she has been staying there for three years.

So essentially she has killed someone and that was the trigger for her breakdown and so she locked herself away so that she wouldn't do it to anyone else.

When she was younger her mother killed her siblings, father and then killed herself. She has no family and is all only in the world.

So this is where things get interesting. She has no family or friends. How can she afford to pay rent for an apartment for the pass three years and buy food?

She is a camgirl and if you don't know what a camgirl is, basically what she does is live online one-on-one video chat with people where she does things that are of a sexual nature. She is the number 3 camgirl for the site she work on.

She does not lock her door. She's always hoping that people will come into her apartment so she can kill them. She reasoning that if they come in she cannot be responsible for what happened.


There is a lot of sex and sexual activities in this book so if you are not comfortable with that, stay away from this book. Also, thing get very graphic in terms of violence later into the book when things get freaking insane.


I highly recommend.

Waiting On Wednesday: The Retribution of Mara Dyer

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine



Title: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #3) (Paperback)

Author: Michelle Hodkin 
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens Books 
To Be Released:  November 6, 2015
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Supernatural, Horror, Fiction, Contemporary, Paranormal Romance
Buy: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or The Book Depository
Also by this author: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and The Evolution of Mara Dyer



It had to end sometime, but Mara had no idea it would end like this. Experience the mind-blowing conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy.

Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.
There is.

She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.

She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.

Retribution has arrived.

Why I'm Waiting On This Book

I'm excited for the PAPERBACK of this book to be released to complete my collection of the series. Can't wait to get my hands on it & start reading!

Be sure to check out my reviews for The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and The Evolution of Mara Dyer.

-Wendy

"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Murder of an Angel by James Patterson

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine

Title: The Murder of an Angel 
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Company
To Be Release Date:  October 26, 2015
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery
Buy: Amazon or B&N
Add on: Goodreads
Also by this author: Alex Cross series, Women's Murder Club series & Maximum Ride series





In the dramatic conclusion of the bestselling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own!

Tandy Angel is losing her mind—or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in every shadow. And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head—or the very real danger that finally brings her down.

Why I'm Waiting On This Book

I love James Patterson. So, I can't wait to start this series.


What are you waiting for this Wednesday?  Let us know in the comment section below.

-Shon