Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

Title: Inferno  Author: Dan Brown  Published: May 14, 2013  Published by: Doubleday Books Genre: Fiction/ Mystery/ Thriller  Pages: 463 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  Review:  Dan Brown has done it once again! The rush, the mystery and the adventure was completely amazing!                               This adventure is kinda different from the last one but I enjoyed it just as much! I love how Brown can intertwine history along with great works of literature with his mystery, I couldn't put it down! The whole twist of Robert having amnesia really adds to the mystery because this time even though he's not at the top of his game he is still rolling with the punches and doing it! I always love how Brown is able to describe Italy and everything like the art and museums, I love that because he makes it seem that you are really there! I really enjoy these books and I am nervous to...

Title: 14 Ways to Die  Author: Vincent Ralph  Expected Publication: June 1, 2021  Publisher: Source Fire Books  Genre: Young Adult/ Mystery  Pages: 400 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Ten years ago Jess's mother never came home from work that day, she never made it past the alley to her home because she was the first victim of the Magpie Man. While Jess's mother was the first victim she was not the last ever since that the Magpie Man kills every nine months and he carves the number of the victim on their chest. Jess is ready to take a stand, she wants to catch the Magpie Man so she enters a competition for a YouTube reality show so that she can try to get clues and catch the Magpie Man. Then Jess wins she now has a show every monday for the next month but if she can create enough interest in her segment then she will be able to have a YouTube show for the next three months. Little things start showing up like newspaper articles and text messag...

Title: The Ivies  Author: Alexa Donne  Expected Publication: May 25,2021  Publisher: Random House Children's/ Crown Publishing  Genre: Young Adult/ Thriller/ Mystery  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Do you remember the movie Mean Girls? This is a mean girls story with an academic mission. The story was smart, addictive, and definitely shocking! The characters get under your skin, they are ruthless and twisted. The girls are twisted and will do anything and I mean anything to get into thier dream college, even murder. This is a great whodunit type of book, the twist and the shocks keep coming. Olivia is at a boarding school where she and her friends are all trying to get into one of their Ivy League colleges but when things turn deadly for the group of friends Olivia is trying to figure out who killed one of their own as well as what other secrets they are hiding from one another. If you love YA thrillers or even thrillers in ge...

Title: The Drowning Kind  Author: Jennifer McMahon  Expected Publication: April 6, 2021 Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio & Gallery/Scout Press  Genre: Horror  Pages: 336 Pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Wow. I'm left speechless.  This book was phenomenal. This is the second book I've read by this author and I believe she will become an auto buy for me. Her books are always amazing! This book has all the creepy feelings, ghosts, legends and soo much more! Jax and her sister Lexie were as thick as thieves when they were younger. But when Lexie receives her grandmother's home and inheritance when their grandmother passed away Jax started to resent Lexie and started putting boundaries and space between the two. So when one day she starts to receive several phone calls and frantic voicemails from Lexie, Jax comes to the conclusion that Lexie is off her medications and even reaches out to her aunt to check on Lexie. However, when her aunt goe...

Title: Spell's Trouble  Author: P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast  Expected Publication: May 25, 2021  Publisher: Wednesday Books/ St. Martin's Press Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review:  Wow! I enjoyed this one soo much! So this is actually the first that I've read by these authors and they lived up to the hype that I've heard about them really well! Hunter and Marcy Goode are twin witches and they are crossing a big time in their lives when they learn to be the protectors of the gates and for them to make the choice of what God or Goddess they are going to choose for their path. However when they go to do their ritual on their birthday something goes terribly wrong and a creature comes out of the gate and attacks the girls and then their mother sacrifices herself to save the girls. Now, the girls must work together with their friends and feline to get the gates closed and to get rid of whatever crossed over. So, this...

Title: The Demon of Brownsville Road: A Pittsburgh Family's Battle With Evil in Thier Home  Author: Bob Cranmer & Erica Manfred  Published: August 5, 2014  Published by: Berkley Books  Genre: Non-fiction/ Horror  Pages: 304 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  So the paranormal has always intrigued me. So of course the title caught my eye. Now, the religious aspect didn’t bother me at all because the family was battling a demon in their  own home. However, the author did like to fluff his own feathers in the first half and basically told his own biography in the first half of the book. I understand that he was trying to set up his background and put out his credibility there because he worked for the people. However his fluffed feathers were over the top. I would give the book three stars but I changed it to four stars because of how much ridicule the author received  by putting out his story out there in the open where people would be a skeptic ...