I thought that this was a pretty good premise for this book. However, I did tire of the father rather soon into my reading. I just did not connect with him at all. That being said, I'm not sure how I would act if my wife was missing for over a year and finding out all kinds of things about her that ...
By: Janelle Brown Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Publication Date: July 11th 2017 Format: Hardcover Pages : 368 pages It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan—a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life—went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the tr...
Billie Flanagan is a beautiful, charismatic wife and mother. One day while hiking alone in a place called Desolation Wilderness Billie vanishes. It's coming up on the one year anniversary since the incident and her body has still never been found. But her teenage daughter Olive begins seeing her. Sh...
Funny that this was billed as a great beach read - I like my escapist reads to be a bit less populated with unlikable characters and relentlessly dire situations, no matter how comic. The three women in the family were well drawn and interesting in a train wreck kind of way, but the father/husband w...
Nice little Ghost hunters short. Ellen and Monty are called in to New Orleans to investigate a house on a Military Base where something definitely evil is going on.I love this series. It's a nice, lite paranormal read. If you enjoy the ghost hunter type shows, these books may appeal to you, excep...
It's books like this that remind me why reading is such a pleasure!A woman and her two daughters come together to cope with the aftermath of her husband of nearly 30 years suddenly leaving. Over the course of the summer, the three realize that they have absolutely no idea how to comfort each other ...
I won this book on First Reads, and I am very glad I did. Jannelle Brown's This Is Where We Live has tied with Emma Donoghue's Room as the best book I have read this year. This Is Where We Live is about the relationship between Jeremy, a musician trying desperately to hold his band together so the...
If I didn't have this unnatural need to finish books that I start, I might not have finished this. I know you are supposed to stick your characters up trees and throw rocks at them, but I found this book distressing and depressing. I was not unsympathetic to the mother and her situation, and I felt ...
This is really 2.5 stars but I am rounding up to 3 for my ranking because it was a First Reads win, and it's the least I can do.Though the description interested me, this didn't turn out to be my kind of book. The premise of people struggling with money and a "Quarter Life Crisis" of sorts was inter...
In All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Janelle Brown introduces us to a family during their summer of one crisis after another. After 29 years of marriage, Janice Miller is stunned to learn, on the day her husband's Silicon Valley company makes a successful first stock offering, that he won't be comi...
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