Anna

This is so touching. I love the way Patterson wrote this, it's written like fiction. Which helps you feel like you know this story better, but you also have to remember it's really. That these victims were real IU students who died in the comfort of their own school home. 

The Idaho Four was one of those cases that was so all over the place that you couldn't have not heard about especially if your someone like me who lives in the PNW, with IU about a day's drive away from me. 

This book explores what happens when the police tells the parents almost every, and when that news gets out to the media, and how yes media sleuths may have the best intentions at heart, sometimes they also speculate too much that the police stop talking to the families. It raises the question of what information needs to stay quiet while what can be shared. But it also makes you wonder why can't the parents know what is going on with their children right away. 

Overall, it's an amazingly powerful story and well written. This was my first true crime story by James Patterson, and I loved it wholeheartedly. 

HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Miss Jeneva Rose has done it again.

This book has you wanting to be on the edge of your seat, then you fall out of your seat and try to pick yourself back up and then fall again.

As someone who isn't a big fan of smut, this was the cusps of my limits, I would say it's in between some spice and spice.

The man is a stalker, but she's also kinda a stalker, it's complicated. But this whole town is filled with liars and the only character who isn't a liar is has to take medication (for whatever reason), and they all think she's crazy, so who knows what would have really happened if she spoke out about it.

The plot twist is something I wanted, but it happened in a way I wasn't prepared for.

As someone who will always pick to stay a hotel over an AirBnB, this, this confirmed my reasoning behind. If both you have a terrible and creepy host, in the middle of nowhere, or if you're the host and have a terrible guest. This is worst case scenario.

But ughhh... it was so good

Oh my, oh my... foolish mortals indeed. The mansion only takes those whom are ready to enter. You may enter and come out alive, or you may enter and well, live inside.

The way volume one flowed into volume two was an amazing, you expect nothing, yet experience everything. 

This was the perfect light-hearted horror novel. A great way to get your younger readers to see if they would even like horror/darker stories (I.e. goosebumps, and Steven King stuff)

The narrator sucks you into the world of these tales, makes you feel like one of the 999 souls who live in the mansion, watching and waiting for your tale to be told... 

The mansion has rules, and you must follow them all...

Highly recommend (especially the audiobook version), happy haunts... :)

I never thought I'd be reading a book by a Buddhist monk. But here I was reading, enjoying, understanding. Sometimes even wrestling with what he was saying.

This book takes on a life and things that we all experience through the eyes of this monk and professor. Yes, he is a Buddhist monk and references it a lot, but he also pulls from Christianity, and some do his understanding of it. But no, I wouldn't say this book is solely focused on religion, but life. I think you could get a lot of good and interesting insights about life from this book. 

Highly recommend

This was a very confusing short story to listen to. The narrator having a crazy thick accent didn't help try to understand what was going on. All I know is that it was a firework show battle between two families who live across the river from each other. And one the one side there a dad with two sons (one looks like Ben Affleck apparently 🤷‍♀️, and we don't get a 
description of the other son). And the other on is this guy (the POV) and his mother. And they are just trying to one up each other every year. But that's I'll I could tell you. Honestly the cover is more interesting than the actual book. 

I think Nicole explains this book the best, - 

“'Home Is Where The Bodies Are' is about life, my life to be exact, but I think we end similar experiences in a way. maybe not the same ones I have, but there our universal themes. It's about death, grief, regret, the things we need in life, and the things life needs from us. It's about love with and without condition, it's about addiction and healing, but most of all it's about family. What it means to be one, what it means to have one, and what it means to lose one.” -Nicole ch.48

There were some great cozy Halloweenish short stories. I loved listening to the narrator with a British accent on 1.5x speed it was funny. The narrator added a lot to the stories, I don't think I would have liked it that much if the narrator was American.

This was so good. One chapter I skipped a bit of because it was just long. I loved this book so much. I would recommend it with caution. Some of the things in this book I want to use in my life. This book showed me another side of disorders and another side to life. 

I didn't want this book to end. I love how much I felt like I was in Darcy's world. I didn't want this book to end. This is a true fictional coming of age story. From High school drama to family life issues. I felt like this book was some I could pick up over and over and fall in love with the characters from the start over again. Is so cute. 

The narrator's accent was hard to understand 

Kinda just drifted away from it. Lost interest and had to return it to the library

I didn't how much it talked about SA