Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

Title: Dark One Vol. 1 Author: Brandon Sanderson  Published: August 17, 2020 Published by: Vault Comics  Genre: Graphic Novels/ Fantasy  Pages: 224 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  So this was a first for me with this author. I had heard many great things about this author and I wanted to check out his stuff and let me just say I was not disappointed! I enjoyed the graphic novel because it just kinda jumped into the action right off the bat, like there was not any leading up to it was like BAM right there I enjoyed that aspect of the graphic novel! I also liked that the graphics were like the old school graphics and not the rounded out type of graphics in a lot of the graphic novels. I will have to say that it was intense but the intense aspect of the read made it very hard to put down! There is a lot of death, if that is a trigger for anyone but its really good! Lots of action and i enjoyed the classic good v. evil aspect of it too and dividing between the two wor...

Title: A Special Place in Hell: The World's Most Depraved Serial Killers  Author: Christopher Berry Dee  Expected Publication: June 1, 2021  Publisher: Ad Lib Publishers Genre: True Crime  Pages: 240 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  I  am a true crime junkie, and this was the first book that I have read by this author. It was a different experience and this author did not not hold back at all! The author is very detailed and talks about all the different serial killers in different prisons that he was able to speak with. This author did give very detailed interactions with the killers and he has a little bit of quirkiness to his conversations, which added a different vibe to his book. This did help the book a lot IMO. I enjoyed that this author did not try to justify the actions of the killers by their past or anything that could have been to blame like on upbringing or anything like that. He literally tells it how it is and he does not su...

Title: The Corpse Flower  Author: Anne Metter Hancock Expected Publication: October 12,2021  Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Pages: 336 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  I enjoyed this one! It definitely has the dark, twisted, and creepy vibe! Heloise is a successful journalist who is basically on the brink of losing her job because one of her sources lied. With all of that stress going on she also starts to receive cryptic messages. Now, these cryptic messages are not just from anyone they are from an alleged killer. Then, we have Officer Erik. He is still working on a fatal stabbing from three years prior. While he has his prime suspect Anna, he cannot connect her to the murder nor find motive for her. However, many of his clues are pointing him towards Heloise as his killer. Then as Heloise starts digging into Anna's history and background some of her hidden past starts popping up. Now, she is faced with talking to someone she pr...

Title::The Soulmate Equation  Author: Christina Lauren  Expected Publication: May 18, 2021  Publisher: Gallery Books Genre: Romance/ Contemporary  Pages: 368 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  A very cute story, I enjoyed it! Jess is a single mother who is kind of down on her luck when enters a sample into a DNA matchmaking company that is determined to change dating forever. Jess is skeptical of the numbers and all but when she is given the 98% compatibility to one of the men that is responsible for the company, she is definitely skeptical! When the company offers her a contract paying her to get to know Mr. Pena she takes it because it means that she can make her bills and have a little extra for later on. Slowly but surely she starts to see behind the walls that Mr. Pena has put up around himself and sees that there is more to him than she originally thought! Oh Man! I loved this story soo much! It's cute and it's a slow grown romance that shows th...

Title: When No One is Watching  Author: Alyssa Cole  Published: September 1, 2020 Published by: William Morrow Books  Genre: Thriller/ Mystery  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Sydney is from Brooklyn and she still lives in the house that she grew up in. But after her marriage failed she moved back home with her mother and the beloved neighborhood that she loved soo much is changing daily and all her neighbors and friends are slowly disappearing one by one. What does Sydney need to do to move with the changes in her neighborhood or fight the changes and see what happens when she goes against the grain and fights the big corporations over her neighborhood. I have to say I don't think that I have read a book quite like this one and while the major theme of the book is gentrification, this story definitely does push your gears to grind for the people in what happens when gentrification does happen. What happens to the people? What if the pe...

Title: The Girl in the Mirror  Author: Rose Carlyle  Published: October 20, 2020  Published by: William Marrow  Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Pages: 304 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Two sisters mirror twins Iris and Summer, while Summer seemed to have it all: the perfect marriage and everything Iris was very envious. Iris's marriage had just ended and when Summer called to Iris to get her to help bring her yacht over the Indian Ocean. Things started out great, the sisters were getting along great then Summer tells Iris that she's pregnant. Then while Iris is asleep Summer falls overboard and when Iris wakes up she discovers her sister missing and literally freaks out. So she doubles back trying to find her and she ultimately fails so when she finally reaches the shore and Adam (Summer's husband) mistakes her for her sister she just goes with the flow instead of correcting him because she is afraid of getting put into prison because of the circumstances of ...

Title: The Burning Girls  Author: C.J. Tudor Published: February 9,2021  Publisher: Ballantine Books/ Random House Publishing  Genre: Thriller/ Mystery/Horror Pages: 304 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  After an unfortunate incident at the church Reverend Jack Brooks is moved to a small village. She hopes that it will be a new start for her and her 14 year old daughter. Now this small villiage is very peculiar and different there is a lot of unsaid things in the air and Jack is suprised to find out that she is replacing a vicar that after he was too deep into the supersitions and trying to find out what happened to two girls tha disappeared many years ago he committed suicide or thats at least what is being told to Jack. Flo, Jack's Daughter, initially had a rough start with the kids not being so friendly and then another bullying incident where they break her prized possession of her camera. So if that is not enough she then starts to see the spirits o...

Title: Such a Quiet Place  Author: Megan Miranda  Expected Publication: July 13, 2021  Publisher: Simon Schuster Genre: Thriller/ Mystery  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review: Hollow's Edge used to be the neighborhood everyone envied. There was a pool, a mixture of neighbors in various life stages and of course they had a chat to watch everyone's back and of course it was a quiet place. That was until two of the residents were murdered and one of the neighbors was charged with the murder, and then the people in the neighborhood were stuck there because of what happened they couldnt sell thier houses and move away. When Ruby's conviction was overturned she returned back to the house she used to share with Harper. Harper is stuck in between a tough spot where she can't turn her friend away because she has nowhere to go but she has to wonder why did Ruby return to the scene of the crime. But as time progresses and Harper starts receiving threatening n...