Monica's Book Reviews

Highly Recommended   Let Me Lie By   - Clare Mackintosh Published  - March 13th, 2018 Synopsis The stunning new novel from Clare Mackintosh, the international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You. The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide. Now with a baby herself, Anna feels her mother's absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as she digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her. Sometimes it's safer to let things lie.... My Review So guys I got this book from a monthly book subscription called once upon a book on cratejoy.com. I chose the two books a month and this was one of them. Now let me tell you I loved this fucking book. This boo...

Recommended In Too Deep By  – Monique L. Donaldson Published  – May 9 th , 2019 Synopsis Monica Chandler is a successful and brilliant district attorney who lands a job with the opportunity of a lifetime to work for Judge Bryant Jackson in LA. Monica ends up with blood on her hands of her potential boss. Monica is framed for his murder, and no matter what she does to try and escape from her bad luck of being at the right place at the wrong time, she keeps landing herself back in jail. Her beau, Alex Sanchez, has other things in store for Monica as she unravels a conspiracy that will make her seek the desperate of help of her so-called “friends” and Marcus Jones. This whole ordeal will test her faith on love, honesty, her passion for the criminal justice system, and losing the man she loves. Will Monica give up hope and let the justice system decide her fate? My Review Alright everyone. If you know me you know that I feel in love with this book, but one reason ...

Not Recommended   Addicted To Pain By  - Rainie Howard Published  -  April 21st, 2016 Synopsis The obsession of a toxic or abusive relationship can have the same enticement as drugs or alcohol. The pattern echoes time and time again: a new significant other draws you into a new relationship that starts off loving and alluring only to develop into a hurtful or abusive cycle. People who have a healthy understanding of “true love” do not tolerate this kind of pain. He or she will move on in search of a healthier bond. It is an unhealthy view on love that will rationalize the toxic behavior and cling to abusive relationships long after they should have ended. Like any other addiction those hooked on a toxic love and an emotionally abusive relationship; have no control over excessive urges to text, call, manipulate or beg for love, attention, and affection. They want help. They want to end the pain and recover, but it is just like trying to shake a drug habit. Ranked one ...

Recommended   Before We Were Wicked By  -    Eric Jerome Dickey Published  - April 16th, 2019   Synopsis They say the love of money is the root of all evil, but for Ken Swift, it's the love of a woman. Ken is twenty-one, hurting people for cash to try to pay his way through college, when he lays eyes on Jimi Lee, the woman who will change the course of his entire life. What's meant to be a one-night stand with the Harvard-bound beauty turns into an explosion of sexual chemistry that neither can quit. And when Jimi Lee becomes pregnant, their two very different worlds collide in ways they never could have anticipated. Passion, infidelity, and raw emotion combine in Eric Jerome Dickey's poignant, erotic portrait of a relationship: the rise, the fall, and the scars--and desire--that never fade.Age Range: Adult My Review Eric Jerome Dickey is hands down amazing and is one of my top 5 favorite writers. I have been a fan of his since high schoo...

Highly Recommended We’re Going To Need More Wine By : Gabrielle Union   Published : October 17 th  2017 Synopsis In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union—a forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic ’90s movies—instantly became the insightful, outspoken actress that Hollywood has been desperately awaiting. With honesty and heartbreaking wisdom, she revealed ...