Book Life Rambles

One For The Money by Janet Evanovich G👀dreads This “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” series starter (USA Today) introduces feisty out-of-work bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who takes a job as an apprehension agent and winds up getting assigned to track down and arrest her former flame, an ex-cop charged with murder. Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Chick Lit, Crime, Romance It's a crime mystery but supposed to be laugh-out-loud funny. Right up my alley (hopefully). It's been suggested several times on a FB page. It's a series, One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, and so on. One lady said (about the series):  Three to Get Deadly had me laughing so hard I was crying and couldn't read! As soon as I stopped laughing I would dry my eyes and blow my nose, but as soon as I started reading where I left off, I'd start laughing and wheezing all over again. This went on several times before I could finally get past that one page! Stephanie...

Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose G👀dreads After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends. Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether t...

The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas by James Patterson and Tad Safran G 👀dreads Every year at Christmastime, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe unhung, chestnuts unroasted, carols unplayed, cookies uncooked, a tree un-visible, and guests uninvited. Until guests start arriving anyway. In pairs and sixes, in sevens and tens—they keep coming. And they stay. For twelve long, hard, topsy-turvy, very messy days. That’s when the Sullivans discover that those moments in life that defy hope, expectation, or even imagination, might be the best gifts of all. Genre: Christmas, Fiction, Fantasy, Humor RRBC= RR BookClubRead ⭐ ⭐ So I was hoping for a quirky Christmas mystery. I thought it will be a good pallet cleanser from all the serious stuff. It was meh. Not very likeable. I like a little magical...