I Can't Wait For... The Wife Who Knew Too Much

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by 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.

I found this author's books this year and when I saw her next book that comes out next year I immediately added it to my TBR...

The Wife Who Knew Too Much

Standalone 
by Michele Campbell
Thriller
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook (presumed), 352 Pages
June 9, 2020 by St. Martin's Press


Blurb

Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and handsome. She was a pool girl at his country club. Their affair should have been a summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha.

Years later, Connor comes back into Tabitha's life—older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy, neurotic, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha.
When Connor’s wife Nina takes her own life, he’s free. He can finally be with Tabitha. Nina’s home, Windswept, can be theirs. It seems to be a perfect ending to a fairy tale romance that began so many years ago. But then, Tabitha finds a diary. "I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death," it begins. “If I die unexpectedly, it was foul play, and Connor was behind it. Connor – and her.”

Who is Connor Ford? Why did he marry Nina? Is Tabitha his true love, or a convenient affair? As the police investigate Nina’s death, is she a convenient suspect?

As Tabitha is drawn deeper into the dark glamour of a life she is ill-prepared for, it becomes clear to her that what a wife knows can kill her.

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What do you think? Will you be checking this one out? 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 11 February 2019

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

What I Read Last Week:

I'm setting this one aside for awhile at page about 71. I'll finish it, I just need to get through my ARC stack.

I finally found time to finish this one and I really loved it! That ending... OMG! I can't wait for the next book.

 What I Am Reading Now:

This is my second reading (or in this case listening) of Daughters Unto Devils. The first time I read this book it scared me senseless, but listening to it the second time in audiobook it's not so bad. I'm about 40% through as of last night.

Up Next:

I'll be catching up on my ARC pile in the coming days starting with this beauty which comes out on February 26th. On Thin Ice is the 3rd book in the Juniper Falls series, a contemporary YA Romance about a small, hockey obsessed town. This is one of my favorite YA series and I can't wait to start it!!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 4 February 2019

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

What I Read Last Week / What I Am Reading Now:

I'm only about 50 pages in (20 pages more than last week) at this rate I'll finish sometime 3 years from now...

I'm really enjoying this one, I started it late last week and at first I wasn't sure I would like it, but I really got into it. It reminds me a little of Six of Crows!

Up Next:

This comes out on the 14th. I'm going to alternate between War and Peace and Kingdom Cold once I finish The Gilded Wolves.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 28 January 2019

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

What I Read Last Week:

I really enjoyed this book! It's got everything I love, Southern Gothic appeal, run-down mansions, magic, and suspicious deaths. 

This is admittedly not one of my favorites by Wendy Higgins, but I did enjoy it. Psyche reminded me a bit of Aerity from the Eurona Duology and I loved the setting. I think my problem was that I'm unfamiliar with the original myth that is the source material. 

What I Am Reading Now:

I'm going to do this! It's going to take me a while but I'm going to read War & Peace. I'm about 30 pages in and my goal is to hit page 300 by the end of January. I'm figuring I'll be finished sometime by the end of March.

Up Next:

The author contacted me through this blog to read and review her upcoming book and I'm all too happy to oblige. I have it on my kindle and I'm going to alternate between War and Peace and Kingdom Cold.

Book Review: Wall of Crosses by Baj Goodson

Wall of Crosses by Baj Goodson

Blurb:

"Raw, gripping, and emotional." - Adelaide Thorne, Author of THE TRACE

ONE HOUSE. ONE FAMILY. COUNTLESS SECRETS.

JACOB TAMBLYN is not in the business of keeping tabs on his dysfunctional family. But when his widowed grandfather passes away suddenly, the patriarch’s last will and testament makes a substantial demand of Jacob and his estranged relatives: in order to claim their inheritances, everyone named in the will must work together long enough to clear out the home of the old man and his late wife.

ANDY TAMBLYN would love to know more about the family history that her husband, Jacob, refuses to divulge. Seeing the scenario as her big chance to glean better insight into her darling spouse, Andy joins him in the task—despite sentencing herself to the condemnation of her acerbic mother-in-law, Ruth.

But the assignment proves as overwhelming as it is dire when the family gathers in the house to find that their shrewd figurehead has spent the last year as a hoarder. Tensions rise and drama escalates as old grudges breathe new life, burdens exchange shoulders, and carefully buried secrets—the life-altering kind—threaten to come to light.

My Review:

Wow! This book was even better than I anticipated! 

This book hit me especially hard because it's only been a few months since my mom, sister, and I cleaned out the apartment I shared with my grandmother for thirteen years so I definitely could relate to Jacob's interactions with his estranged mother and uncles. 

I loved the secrets uncovered during the course of the story and the build up kept me guessing. Then the twist at the end! Holy cow! I did not see that one coming. 

Overall, I thought this novella was wonderfully written, a story of suspense, secrets, and the things we leave behind. I couldn't get enough and I kind of wanted to see what would happen after the ending.  

 My Rating:

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

5 of 5 Stars!

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Red, White, and Blue Books!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Red, White, and Blue Books

This week's TTT is in honor to the Fourth of July with books with red, white, and blue covers.

Red

1. The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

2. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

3. Lick by Kylie Scott

4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

White

5. Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett

6. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

7. Paper Princess by Erin Watt

Blue

8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

9. The Obsession by Nora Roberts

10. The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

What are some of your favorite book covers in your nation's colors? Do any of my choices make your list?

Let me know in the comments or drop me a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons! And have a happy and safe 4th!

- 💀Taylor

Book Review: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Blurb:

A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald. 

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. 

Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes. 

My Review:

Z begins with a wild, flirty, rebellious young girl living in a conservative household who falls for a man with big dreams. 

During the first part of this book, I felt sorry for F. Scott because Zelda acts like a flighty girl just playing with his feelings. Zelda is wild and kind of crazy but she's accustomed to a type of living that at first F. Scott cannot financially provide for her so she won't marry him until he "becomes something." F. Scott is a piece of work in his own right as we learn as the book goes on.

At first Zelda's story about marrying F. Scott and their life together in the early days was interesting, but then it seems to just be repetitive as all they seem to do is drink, party, spend money, and get kicked out of places. Then things get just plain depressing as Zelda's mental state begins to crumble.

Overall I liked this book, but at times felt like it dragged. I thought it perfectly portrayed the era in which Zelda and F. Scott lived and it was interesting to see glimpses of the life of the man behind Gatsby and his fascinating wife, but in a way it made me lose respect for him, as well as other people of that era. The ending was probably my favorite part as we learn about F. Scott and Zelda's tragic end. They were two people who lived life hard, if not to the fullest and in the end it took a toll on them both.

My Rating:

3.75 of 5 Stars

"What I'm Reading" Wednesday #84

Once again this "WIR"-Wednesday I'm reading a few different books. Last night I started listening to Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo on audible and since I finished Riot by Jamie Shaw yesterday, today I'm starting a re-read of...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Blurb:

FROM GOODREADS:

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

Why I Chose This Book:

It's been a few years since I read The Great Gatsby, probably about a month after the movie came out to be exact and I absolutely love this story. I always feel so heartbroken for Gatsby and such contempt for Daisy. I'm on a no-fantasy ban on reading right now so I thought I'd pick this up for a change.