Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

​ Title: The Mayfair Dagger Author: Ava January  Expected Publication: April 23,2024  Publisher: Dreamscape Media Genre: Mystery/Historical Fiction/ Romance  Pages: 304 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  Albertine in 1894 is in between a rock and a hard place. She finds out unfortunately her father did not leave her any provisions in his will, already devastated her cousin who inherited everything is trying to force her to marry a local farmer with fifteen children that she will be looking after. She flees to London with Joan to escape this fate and becomes a private detective. She creates a new life for herself as Countess Dagga and a fictional husband who is out of the country so that she can live independently and basically won't be shunned.  However, the rich and powerful have many more mysteries than she originally thought and finds herself right in the middle of a murder investigation and she is investigating in an attempt to clear the suspicion from her name. She also employs

​ Title: Heartless Hunter  Author: Kristen Ciccarelli Published: February 20,2024 Published by: St Martins Press/ Wednesday Books Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Young Adult Pages: 426 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  What a wild ride!!!  I loved the love triangle but Gideon is going to turn into a heartless hunter! This is one full of adventure, secrets, lies, and action!  Witches are hunted and killed. Someone betrayed Rune's grandmother and to save Rune's life her grandmother has Rune go tell the people her grandmother is a witch. By doing this Rune feels an intense grief and decides to try and save as many witches as she can.  Gideon hunts and kills witches and is well known however, his complete opposite brother Alex aids Rune in any way he can. Rune is also a witch in hiding. Gideon is obsessed with finding the Crimson Moth (Rune in hiding),  and he begins to suspect Rune. Rune determined to save all the witches she can tried to court Gideon in the attempt to try to gain informa

​ Title: The Reappearance of Rachel Price  Author: Holly Jackson  Published: April 2,2024 Published by: Delacorte Press  Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult  Pages: 441 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  Wow! What a wild journey! Those twists though are whiplash-worthy!  Rachel Price was last seen on security footage with her then-toddler Bel never to be seen again. Rachel's car was on the side of the road running with the heater on and Bel buckled in the back seat but no sign of Rachel. It's been sixteen years since the disappearance and Bel along with her family are working with a producer to do a documentary about the disappearance of Rachel Price.  Bel is having a hard time with the documentary because there is always speculation about her father. Upset she takes off and on the way home she finds her, she finds Rachel. Thinking she is seeing a ghost she runs home without looking back, and soon there is a knock on the door, and it's Rachel. Rachel is back.  Bel calls

​ Title: The Lady He Lost  Author: Faye Delacour  Expected Publication: April 2,2024  Publisher: Dreamscape Media Genre: Historical, Historical Romance, Romance  Pages: 336 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  I completely adored this!   Let's begin in the beginning Jane Bishop is an orphan, she's without a dowry and has already been through a couple of seasons without finding a match. She also is part of a two-woman partnership of a gambling club, she runs this club because she is trying to secure her financial future.  However, all of this becomes a tumble when her long-lost love returns to town.  Eli returns from the dead, well-pronounced dead years after being involved in a ship wreck. Now, Jane's cousin Cecily was engaged to Eli but when he was assumed dead she found another, even from the beginning Jane loved Eli. Since he was first engaged to Cecily, Jane tried to keep him at arm's length because Cecily and Jane have a very competitive streak between the two and Ja

​ Title: Dead Dog Road  Author: Diane N. Black Published: March 24,2024  Published by: Black Flower Press  Genre: Nonfiction, True Crime  Pages: 322 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  This is a heartbreaking story, a devastating reality for many children.  There are agencies that many parents fear but for the ones that need the agencies the most they seem to fall through the cracks. When most people hear stories about children who are adopted from other countries, usually it is seen as an ultimate act of sacrifice for the person to spend money and to want to try to help children in other countries that are less fortunate. However, these three children were adopted from Russia and they were adopted by a sadistic woman. As soon as these children arrived home they spoke Russian and she slapped them in the face and told them never to speak Russian again. These were children and they did not have a choice to come and did not understand. Then when the boy tried to run away and hid under a hou

​ Title: The Manicurist’s Daughter  Author: Susan Lieu Published: March 12,2024 Published by: Celadon Books  Genre: Memoir/Nonfiction  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rating:  This book was amazing! It's very raw and emotional but worth every moment. I enjoy books such as this one because they give an unfiltered view into their life and what events shaped them into who they have become today!  Susan's mother was the center of everything when she was young. She came to America and sponsored other people so they could come into America and had them work in the successful nail salon she built from the ground up. However, Susan's mother tragically died from a botched tummy tuck when she was eleven. As any child would have Susan had lots of questions and she wanted to be able to grasp what happened to her mother and why. But, her family shut down any questions about the death of her mother, as if they just moved on and left the death in the past. While Susan struggled in more