Bibliophile Amber's Book Reviews

Title: The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness  Author: Elle Johnson  Expected Publication: February 16,2021  Published by: Harper  Genre: Nonfiction/ Memoir  Pages: 224 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review:  This is definitely a memoir that pulls at your heart strings, Elle writes about her cousin Karen. When they were both 16 years old Karen was working at a Burger King and was shot point blank in the face with a sawed off shotgun. The author goes through the details of the incident and how it impacted her family, the family that was torn in having to bury a 16 year old girl. Especially since Karen was murdered when two men and another in a get away car were trying to rob the Burger King.  The author also went through the emotions she felt at that time, how the murder of her cousin effected her achademics and even her personality. Elle has not a difficult but a very different relationship with her father who was a Par...

Title: Malorie  Author: Josh McLennan  Published: July 21, 2020 Published by: Del Rey Books  Pages: 320 pages  Genre: Horror  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review:  I'll round it up to a 5 STAR read for me! I really enjoyed BirdBox so when I heard that there was a sequel to that book I knew I had to read it! Once I picked it up there was no setting it down, I was hooked and I finished in less than a day! It was absolutely amazing!  The book starts off where we left them at the school for the blind but then time jumps to where the kids are now teenagers! They are still living with the blindfolds, and trying their best to survive and not look at the beast. That is until one day a census worker came by and left some literature for the family. When they were looking at the listed survivors and the train that ran to get to the survivors they found Malorie's parents' names on the list. So, after her inner turmoil Malorie decides to take that risk that journey ...

Title:The Exorcist  Author: William Peter Beatty Published: June 1971 Published by: Harper Torch  Genre: Horror  Pages: 385 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5  Review: We have all heard of the legendness of this book! One of the monumental horror books of the time, and one that has lasted up to todays standards even though it was written over 30 years ago. I have always wanted to pick up this book, but I never convinced myself to before now. I haven't watched the movie but I probably will now thanks to this book. The Exorcist is about a girl named Regan. Regan spends quite a bit of time on her own even with her sitter because her mother, Chris, is a movie star and her father is in Europe. In this time that she is alone she discovers a Ouija board and starts to mess with it and comes into contact with something she thinks is a friend. However, she is so wrong. Regan starts to have things happen that cannot be explained, she starts doing stuff that cannot be explai...

Title: The Imposter  Author: Marin Montgomery  Expected Publication: March 9,2021 Published by: Thomas & Mercer Genre: Thriller  Pages: 370 pages  Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐/5  Review: Twist and turns galore! This is a book that has a lot going on in it. The story starts out with Deborah. She begins hearing banging on her front door so when she goes to the door with the gun she ends up slipping on the ice but then someone kicks her in the head and she becomes unconscious. Thousands miles away her daughter Sibley, a really successful amazing divorce attorney, ends up getting suspended at her firm and her husband is completely convinced that she is having an affair. So, during her difficult time Sibley decides that she wants to try to mend her relationship with Deborah. So once she returns to the small town she realizes fairly quickly that her mother wasn't the woman she had known. Then, the real twist, turns, secrets and history come back to haunt them both. I r...

Title: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires  Author: Grady Hendrix  Published: April 7,2020 Published by: Quirk Books Genre: Horror/ Fantasy  Pages: 400 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review:  This was one wild ride of a book! Patricia has always wanted a more adventurous life, but most of her time is dedicated to being an at home mother. So she joins a book club where they read a lot of romance novels lol and they also read a lot of true crime novels too. Patricia was walking home from her book club when she noticed that her son had not taken out the trash, so she goes to take out the trash and she ends up being attacked by one of her elderly neighbors. With this attack  the elderly neighbor that attacked her ended up passing away so Patricia being the southernly neighbor felt terrible about the whole incident and decided to take a casserole to her nephew. With that whole situation there was something wrong with it, but Patricia just couldn't put her fi...

Title: Malice  Author: Heather Walter  Published Expected: April 13, 2021  Published by: Random House  Genre: Fantasy/Retellings  Pages: 496 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5  Review :  OMG this is going to be my next obsession! I enjoy fairytale retellings and all the possibilities and this one definitely blew my mind! I loved it soo much! While the beginning was a little slow, but the beginning definitely lays down everything that you need to know! The second half of this book is amazing, sitting on the edge of your seat good! I was expecting something more villianish, something with more of an evil vibe but that's not how this story was going. Alyce is treated like a doormat from so many people, her customers and the others with powers because her powers have more of a sinnister application. While most of those who have powers are making beauty elixirs and things among that nature Alyce helps even the playing field with a "cat" who is getting ...

Title: The Bone Houses  Author: Emily Lloyd-Jones  Published: September 24, 2019  Publishes by: Little Brown Books  Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult  Pages: 352 pages  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review:  Ryn  is a gravedigger after her father was the towns gravedigger and he disappeared when he went into the mines and never return or heard from again. So while she is being the grave digger she is also helping raise her siblings after her uncle disappeared as well. When things are going poorly for their family, they are going to be evicted from their home Because they can’t pay the money that their uncle had gambled away. So when Ryn meets Ellis he is a miracle because he has offered her a job for her to take him into the mountains so that he can map it out. The only problem is the bone houses. The bone houses are the walking dead, they are able to be the walking dead because of a curse put on the mountain a long time ago. As they set out on their advent...