Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

​ Title: The Prisoner  Author: B.A. Paris  Expected Publication: November 1,2022 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Pages: 304 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  This is one of those books that will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing until the very end. I thought about midway through that I knew what was happening but, I wasn't even close!  Amelie is a survivor. After her father passes away from cancer she is left with nothing, so she decides to move to London. Well after going to the different shelters and trying to find work she meets Carolyn. Carolyn was Amelie's godsend, she gave her a place to stay and a job. Eventually, Amelie could find other work and get her own apartment. Then she meets Ned at her new workplace. Ned is a complete tool, he takes Amelie to Las Vegas on a so-called business trip. He just convinces her to marry him and he will pay for the college fees and she agrees but has no idea what she is gett...

​ Title: Sex Cult Nun  Author: Faith Jones  Published: November 30, 2021  Published by: William Morrow Books  Genre: True Crime/Memior  Pages: 400  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  I'm giving this book 5 stars. The reason for the five stars is the rawness and the transparency of this author that she went into the details that she knew would bother a lot of people, she went to the deepest and darkest times in her life and she put them on blast. She blasted her truth from the rooftops for not only herself but for everyone that is not able to share their truth.  This book has an abundance of disturbing and disgusting content and a lot of underage sexual abuse and rape. That is the part that is hard to read about, but her courage to share it and write it is very eye-opening. I did not agree with he whole sharing and polygamy but with each their own. I know I would not want to share my spouse with another person. The whole child abuse and sexual abuse...

​ Title: I’m the Girl  Author: Courtney Summers  Expected Publication: September 13,2022 Published by: Wednesday Books Genre: Thriller/Mystery/ Young Adult  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  Georgia, a 16-year-old girl,  tells the story and while she is trying to escape poverty she believes her beauty is the way out of poverty. She has the dream to be an Aspera Girl, the gorgeous young woman who works at a wealthy exclusive resort. Georgia lives with her brother after her mother passed away from cancer. Now, things take a different turn when she discovers a  body of a 13-year-old girl along the side of the road. Georgia joins forces with Nora, the sister of the girl whose body she found, to solve the murder and find out what actually happened. But, there is more than meets the eye about the tale.  When this happens she is bedazzled with a world filled with wealth, privilege, and power. While she is very naive, she is beautiful, and while...

​ Title: Don’t Let in The Cold  Author: Keely Parrack Published: September 6,2022 Published by Sourcebooks Fire  Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Young Adult  Pages: 320 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review:  Thrown together and expected to act accordingly as sisters Lottie and Jade are supposed to spend one night together in the cabin.  Their parents leave them to spend the night together while they go on their honeymoon. Then a solar flare causes a blackout and with that blackout, there is no power, no cell service, and of course no way to call no help on the way.  So, with all this going on a guy named Alex shows up at the cabin seeking help. While at first, they think he is harmless and in the same situation they are in Lottie sees him speaking to two men in a truck at the end of the driveway. Then, a fire in the cabin has them on the outside fighting against the cold and whatever is in the dark!  Now, this one is a slow burner type of thriller and while I e...

​ Title: American Demon  Author: Daniel Stashower  Published: September 6,2022 Publisher: Macmillan Audio  Genre: Nonfiction/ True Crime  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Review:  While this book is definitely Nonfiction and true-crime this book definitely did not read like your average true-crime novel. This read like a thriller with me on the edge of my seat several times and for that, I have to say that this is my favorite Nonfiction read of the year!  Elliot Ness was the leader of a group called "The Untouchables" and they won the fight against Al Capone, leading him to his prison sentence. Then, after that adventure, he took the job in Cleveland as the Safety Director for the city. Boy, oh boy did he make a splash there. He tried to clear out the corruption and find the serial killer that was dismembering his victims.  I really appreciate how Stashower wrote about Ness, he showed the man as a man with weaknesses and that he was not pe...