Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

​ Title: Don’t Go To Sleep  Author: Bryce Moore  Expected Publication: August 2, 2022  Published by: Tudor Audio/ Sourcebooks  Genre: Thriller, Historical Fiction,Horror  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  Wow! So this story follows Gia, she lives in New Orleans around the time Influenza happens and WWI. She is 17 years old and her history haunts her as well as her best friend Enzo. See Enzo and Gia have a traumatic event that both experienced separately but they bonded over. When they were younger Gia was 10 an ax killer broke into their homes and attacked their parents. While everyone survived it was a hard time because the killer was never found. Now, the attacks have started happening again and this brings Gia to start having flashes of the killings in her dreams. She had always had nightmares about that night but this time it is different, it's the killings that are happening now. So Gia and Enzo partner up to stop this killer before he kills more people and ch...

​ Title: Wake The Bones  Author: Elizabeth Kilcoyne  Published: July 12, 2022  Published by: Wednesday Books Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Fantasy  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  I really enjoy horror books so when this one became available to request I had to request it and I loved it completely!  Laurel is known in her town as being the "Daughter of the Devil" and is returning to her hometown after basically finding out that college wasn't for her. Laurel is living and working on her family's farm, seems like your average girl but she has a very peculiar hobby. She enjoys working with bones and has the ability to read them and be able to see the death of the owners of the bones. But, one-day things changed and her bones walked away. With this, she started knowing that evil was at work on her land.  While this definitely is a great book to get the whole creepy aspect and read in the dark the author tells this story with a passion and t...

​ Title: And There He Kept Her  Author: Joshua Moehling  Published: June 14, 2022 Published by: Poisoned Pen Press  Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery  Pages: 320 pages   Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  This one is definitely a disturbing one! Two teenagers break into a home in search of prescription pills and things like that . However, what they thought was going to be something easy sent their little crime spree to a definite hault. When they meet the owner of the home face to face with a gun barrel staring them back.  Now lets move on to Ben Packard he has returned to the small town and has found out he is next in line to be the new Sheriff. While he tried to be reserved and have his personal life on the downlow, he soon discovers that in small towns there is nothing on the down low.  Now here is where the teenagers and Ben paths cross. The two teenagers are missing and Ben is leading the investigation into their disappearance. While the story progr...

​ Title: Things We Do In The Dark  Author: Jennifer Hillier  Published: July 19, 2022 Publisher by: Minotaur Books  Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  OMG! So this one was amazing!  This book starts off with a BANG! Paris is arrested after she is found with blood on her for her husband's murder. Now, while this would be a scandal for anyone. While she did not do it or did she? She does have a past, a past that she wanted to leave in the past. The more that we know from the past, the more your heart bleeds for her. Paris literally is a survivalist!  What happened in the dark, was intended to stay in the dark. This book switches between different points of view, and it is soo amazing. Now, this is too easy to give anything away in this book, and man oh man did Hillier do it this time.  So, I've read a few of her works, and each time the story gets even more twisted! Hillier's writing goes twisted and crosses ...

​ Title: Enola Holmes The Graphic Novels  Author: Serena Blasco  Published: October 25, 2022 Published by: Andrews McMeel Publishing  Genre: children’s Fiction Pages: 210 pages   Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  Since seeing Enola Holmes on Netflix, I read the whole series with my kiddos. These graphic novels did not disappoint at all! The storyline is the same but it's amazing to read the stories with illustrations.  This includes the last three novels.  Enola is back on the case, deciphering clues and finding new leads. She has a very particular skill set that is remarkable and she has an amazing nose to hunt for clues!  The illustrations of the graphic novel are quite amazing and soo cute! They really did represent the whole Holmes family well! I literally inhaled the series in one sitting because they were soo cute and the stories are soo amazing! I definitely loved this! I definitely would recommend this to anyone who loves the Enola Holmes series...

​ Title: The Woman in the Library  Author: Sulari Gentill  Published: June 7,2022 Published by: Sourcebooks  Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  This is a quirky whodunit type of novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I also adored the beginning. When four strangers are sitting together at a table in the library when they hear a blood-curdling scream. The four strangers form a quick friendship while the security is discovering what happened and the woman's body was found. Now, they form a kinsman type of deal to find out what is actually happening.  Now, these four characters aren't actual people they are characters in an author named Hannah's book, and the book is Mailed to a man named Leo chapter by chapter to sort it out and to give feedback. I loved that Leo's feedback is involved in the novel after the chapters. I loved that. I also loved that this book was soo much more than a mystery/thriller type of book, the genre lines are really kinda blu...

​ Title: One of The Girls  Author: Lucy Clarke Published: June 28,2022 Published by: GP Putnams Sons Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Pages: 384 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  Do you know those books that once you start them you have to literally stop everything that you are doing to get to the bottom of the story? This is definitely one of them. In contrast, the beginning slowly builds up the anticipation of what is happening and going on. It's a girl's weekend for the bride and while it should be filled with lots of alcohol and a good time something along the way goes terribly wrong. Lexi decides that she wants to go to a remote villa instead of the limelight party type of girl's weekend. Bella sets up the weekend with the help of Fen. This is a group of very different girls and all of them have their very own secrets, and the different twists the author throws in will keep you on the edge of your seat. I do not want to give too much away but this is one that as th...

​ Title: The It Girl Author: Ruth Ware  Published: July 12, 2022 Published by: Gallery Books  Genre: Mystery, Thriller  Pages: 432pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review: Ok, So I love Ruth Ware's works. That is not a secret. But this one may be her best yet!  Hannah is a pregnant woman who had to endure a traumatic tragic event. In college, her roommate, April, was murdered, and Hannah's testimony was one of the main things that sent April's killer to prison. Recently April's Killer, John Neville, died in prison still professing profusely his innocence. Then at work, Hannah received a visitor at her work, a reporter that wanted to talk about the case with her. Now, Hannah has received an abundance of requests to speak about the case before and she always ignored them or refused them this one was different because he was friends with one of her friends from college days so she decides to hear him out. When she does some of the facts of the case that she did not k...