Fallen Over Book Reviews

Publisher: Head of Zeus Published: 9/1/2022 Pages: 351 Genre: Thriller Review: Library book Amazon He's online. He's anonymous. He's deadly. When a video surfaces on the dark web showing a murder no one else could have witnessed, FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood must race to catch the killer. But the case is even darker than Ericka thought. Hidden behind an avatar named Dantalion, a criminal mastermind is feeding his sadistic appetites by directing the crimes of others - and he may have been orchestrating his schemes for years. As Ericka's investigation homes in on her target, the tables are suddenly turned. Dantalion knows that she is obsessed with tracking down the men who destroyed her sister's life, and has information that will enable her to find them. To exact her long-awaited revenge, Ericka will have to risk her career, her life, and the fate of Dantalion's future victims. But does vengeance come at too high a price?

Publisher: Self Published: 12/9/2023 Pages: 255 Genre: Realistic Fiction Review: Not sure where I got the book Amazon  Fans of Taylor Swift and Nicholas Sparks will enjoy this heartwarming story about a girl overcoming grief. How can you tell someone you love them if they’re gone? Sarah Hill and Ryan Smith had it all planned out. They were going to college together after high school, get married and start a family. That is until Ryan's suicide derailed it all. Now Sarah's haunted by questions as memories threaten to suffocate her. Their future disappears into dust before her eyes. However, shortly after his death, she receives unexpected news. Ryan's sweet cousin steps in to offer emotional support and becomes her salvation as they process through their grief. Will Sarah's secret ruin their budding friendship? Trigger warnings: mention of suicide, depression representation, bullying

Publisher: Tanner Switch Publishing Published: 2/10/2024 Pages: 274 Genre: horror Review: NetGalley Amazon They left the island, but the island never left them. Four years after the Keating family endured the darkest experiences of their lives, the children are still fighting to move on. Charlie's anxiety has control of his life. Angela is afraid of the dark. Brian suffers from a drug addiction. Chrissy struggles to remember what happened to them, the details forever haunting the outskirts of her mind. But when new information comes to light about what they had witnessed, they make a plan to escape their problems once and for all. Sometimes, the only way to confront your demons is to face them head on, so the Keating siblings decide to go back to the island and call their monsters out of the darkness. They soon realize the terror awaiting is much more than they bargained for. On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island is a coming of age horror novel about grief, PTSD, and how some h

Publisher: Dutton Published: 6/20/2023 Pages: 308 Genre: Mystery Review: library book Amazon At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer— I w

Publisher: Down East Books Published: 6/1/2019 Pages: 208 Genre: biography Review: library book Amazon When Geraldine “Gerry” Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern. When she was not found, the family, the wardens, and the Navy personnel who searched for her were devastated. The Maine Warden Service continued to follow leads for more than a year. They never completely gave up the search. Two years after her disappearance, her bones and scattered possessions were found by chance by two surveyors. She was on the U.S. Navy’s SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) School land, about 2,100 feet from the Appalachian Trail. This book tells the story of events preceding Geraldine Largay’s vanishing in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine, what caused her to go astray, and the massive search and rescue operation that followed. Her disappearance sparke

Publisher: Balzer & Bray Published: 2/5/2019 Pages: 452 Genre: Realistic Fiction Review: library book Amazon Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as beats and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it. On the Come Up  is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families.