Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

Title: Once There Were Wolves  Author: Charlotte McConaghy  Expected Publication: August 3, 2021 Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Flatiron Books  Genre: Fiction/Mystery  Pages: 272 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Let me just start with wow! I was kind of apprehensive about this book because of all the trigger warnings such as domestic violence and in a few parts, there are some gruesome parts and animal death too. However, I think this book is amazing! It has a lot of love, healing, and mystery added to it as well!  Inti Flynn is part of a group that is bringing the wolves back, they want to help with the climate and are basically reintroducing wolves in Scotland. However, as livestock and farming are the majority of the breadwinning there they are met with a lot of agitation and hostility towards the wolves. The farmers are ready to go to bat about not wanting the wolves around because they are concerned about their livestock.  So while...

Title: A Killer By Design: Murder, Mindhunter, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind  Author: Ann Burgess and Steve Constantine  Expected Publication: December 7, 2021  Publisher: Hachette Books Genre: True Crime/ Non- Fiction  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  It's no secret that I love to read true crime. So when I saw this one I HAD to request it! I really enjoyed this book, I actually really enjoyed the perspective of Ann. I enjoyed that she told the readers about her background before she even joined the FBI. While the book kind of reinforced things that I already knew reading some of the other books on profiling, it was still nice to get a full picture from a different perspective. I do have to say that this book wouldn't be for the weak-hearted, she does go into some difficult cases. I do like how she focused on the victims to help with the profiling, she doesn't forget that they are people too. I also liked her perspective th...

Title: False Witness  Author: Karen Slaughter  Expected Publication: July 20, 2021  Publisher: William Morrow, Blackstone Publishing  Genre: Mystery/ Thriller  Pages: 512 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  This was the first of her books that I've ever read! I have some of her books on my shelves I just never really got to them but man oh man am I going to check them out now! This book was literally one that I just couldn't put down! During the COVID-19 pandemic Leigh Collier Leigh Collier is a defense attorney in Atlanta. She is a very successful lawyer, and life is as good as it can be expected. She is separated from her husband, Walter, and has a beautiful daughter Maddy. So one night, Leigh is at a school event for Maddy when her boss calls her and says that a high-profile client has requested her and that she needed to get to the office. When Leigh gets to the office and meets her client, she realizes that there is definitely a reason why h...

Title: The Dead and The Dark  Author: Courtney Gould  Expected Publication: August 3, 2021  Publisher: Wednesday Books / Macmillan Audio  Genre: Young Adult/Horror/ LGBT  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  Something is soo wrong, so very wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. The teenagers are disappearing. The weather is abnormal. Some of the teenagers are being found dead. The whole town is on edge and they love to blame a local who has turned into a popular to a TV's most popular ghost hunter who has recently returned to the town with his family. Ashley's boyfriend was the first one to disappear and she has been seeing his ghost and feeling his presence around her. Her friends worry about her and do not really understand everything that Ashley says she teams up with the ghost hunter's daughter Logan. Since Logan and her fathers have returned to Snakebite, she feels that something has been wrong since they got there and has a feeling there are...