I currently have 5 books on my to-be-read pile & they have just been sitting around my room needing some attention. I used to be a huge book nerd reading every chance I got, but got too busy & have stopped reading. This year I'd like to get back into it & maybe expand my ever-growing library because I would like to have one the size of Beauty & the Beast or Series of Unfortunate Events; I got a long way to go so I need to get started on it now.
My favourite type of books are mystery/thriller, drama, action & adventure, fantasy & comics from time to time. I honestly will read anything that has an interesting synopsis; I need to be dragged into the book. Sometimes I will go to Chapters or the public library & walk around reading back covers (which sometimes are inside the book sleeves) for a little blurb to see if it captures my attention. I also believe that if I'm going to buy a book, I'd like it to be something interesting enough for me to want to read again in a few years when I forget everything that happens.
My all-time favourite author would definitely have to be Harlan Coben. There was a time that I read all of his books because I was super obsessed when my friend showed me one of his books (I currently am 5 or 6 books away from reading them all). However, once I finished all the ones he had out at the time, I needed a new author until his next book came out which led me to discovering James Patterson. These two authors are mystery/thriller masterminds that have you soooo hooked you can't stop until you know what happens. I have finished their books in 2, sometimes 1 day because I had to know what was going on & could not put the book down; i'd be reading it in bed, while eating, & even in the washroom!
Then it it started to get hard to finding James Patterson books at the library so I started going to Chapters & reading covers to find another interesting author I could fall in love with. That's how I found Chevy Stevens. She is a Canadian author, from Vancouver AND a New York Times bestselling author. Her book Those Girls, sounded interesting so I bought it & finished it so quickly. Unfortunately, I lent the book to someone & never saw it again & forgot about her. The other day though, I was in Chapters looking for a notebook & just browsing & saw her book Never Let You Go on display. Seeing her book made me realize I really need to get back into reading her books as well as discovering some more cool authors.
However, I currently have 5 books I need to get through before buying any other books & these are the ones I have. Here is a the little blurb written on the back of the books:
After Anna by Alex Lane
A girl is missing. Five years old, taken from outside her school. She has vanished, traceless. The police are at a loss; her parents are beyond grief. Their daughter is lost forever — perhaps dead, perhaps enslaved. But the biggest mystery is yet to come: one week after she was abducted, Anna is returned. She has no memory of where she has been. And this, for her mother, is just the beginning of the nightmare...
Holly Barrett first saw Jack Dane early one morning — tall, tan, and so heartbreaking glee handsome he took her breath away. He also seemed like the last person to disrupt her quiet, uneventful days with her sensitive daughter, Katie. But the charming, and enigmatic Englishman has blown into her small Cape Cod town like a brisk summer wind off the bay. He sweeps Holly off her feet, and is soon touching the lives of everyone she deeply cares about. But is Jack the considerate, concerned gentleman he appears to be — or is there a very different creature lurking below the surface? Has a monster entered her life… and how far will Holly have to go to save the person she loves more than anyone else in the world?
Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old Life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his jobs as a “tourist“ For the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity — and working a desk at the CIA's New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into an old colleague, exposing new layers of intrigue in Milo's old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover & find out who's been pulling the strings once and for all.
Stella Crater, the judge's wife, is the picture propriety draped in long pearls and the latest Chanel. Ritzi, a leggy showgirl withe Broadway aspirations, thinks moonlighting in the judge's bed is the quickest way off the chorus line. Maria Simon, the dutiful maid, has Judge Crater to thank for her husband's recent promotion to detective for the NYPD. Meanwhile, Judge Crater is equally indebted to tammany Hall leaders and the cit's most notorious gangster, Owney "the Killer" Madden. Then, on a sultry summer night, as rumours circulated about the judge's involvement in wide-scale political corruption, Judge Crater stepped into a cab and disappeared without a trace. Or did he? After thirty-nine years of necessary duplicity, Stella Carter is finally ready to reveal what she knows.
If you guys end up reading any of these books lemme know what you think of them & leave any recommendations down below. If I actually get back into reading a lot again, I might make a goodreads account.
til next time
xoxo
lamrou
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