Book review -White out by Danielle Girard

A huge thank you to Danielle Girard for reaching out to me via Instagram and asking that I review “White Out.” This is one of my favorite things about the Bookstagram community. This was my very first book by this author and I loved it!!!

Synopsis.

After surviving a car accident on an icy road in Hagen, North Dakota, Lily Baker regains consciousness with no idea where or who she is. Scattered Bible verses and the image of a man lying in a pool of blood haunt her memory.

The same night of the accident, a young woman is murdered and tossed in a dumpster. Kylie Milliard, Hagen’s only detective, doesn’t immediately recognize the victim, but Kylie soon discovers that Lily and the dead woman share a dark past…if only Lily could remember what it was.

Lily and Kylie both want answers. But Kylie has to play by the book. Lily has to play it safe. And the more Lily learns about her identity, the more she fears the truth.

My thoughts.

Basically told from three different characters’ perspectives, every chapter leaves you wanting more! The book starts with Lily who wakes up from a car crash only to find that she doesn’t know who she is, the driver in the car, or anything about her past. As the story unfolds, bits of her memory come back only to display her horrific past. ⁣

Kylie is a new detective in a small city where everyone knows everyone. When a murder occurs in this dead city, she is desperate to solve the case to gain her chance to leave for bigger and better places. ⁣

⁣Iver is a war Vet who struggles with alcohol addiction and memories filled with regret.White Out is a fast-paced mystery/thriller that will keep you guessing right up until the very end!

This was a great book and I enjoyed every page of it. Thanks again to the author and Netgalley for my ARC book.

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About the Author

Danielle Girard is the author of Chasing Darkness, the Rookie Club series, and Exhume, Excise, and Expose, featuring San Francisco medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman. Girard’s books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for movies. A graduate of Cornell University, Girard received her MFA at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She, her husband, and their two children split their time between San Francisco and the northern Rockies.

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Review of Soft thorns by Bridgett Devoue

Review of Soft thorns by Bridgett Devoue

 

i wish we lived in a world

where it was safe to keep

our hearts unlocked

🥀

 

Wow, this book is Powerful.I’m not usually a poetry-reader, even if I like it sometimes. When the author says that she is better writing in poems, I thought I was more a “prose” person. But I cannot deny that this book is very good. I felt everything. I felt the damages, the bad things, the assaults, the anger, the loneliness. I felt everything. So, I think that less words can work as much as lot of phrases, sometimes.

I liked every section of the book. This is one of my first poetry book and I’m glad I find a well written and deeply interesting story. We are human, we are like roses with thorns, but we can also be gentle and positive about ourselves.

This book talks about a lot of subjects: assault, abuse, anorexia, mental health, broken hearts, self confidence and self esteem. The most powerful theme is Self care, I think. This part was so important in my eyes and I cannot stop thinking about it. Love is the biggest theme: not only love for someone else, but love for ourselves. Ant this is so Important.

Every line can be meaningful to someone, in every time of their life people can find inspiration and new power to embrace their worlds and built something better.

 

we feel so alone because there is a

whole universe inside each of our minds

that we will never get to experience

together.

 

So, I recommend this book because it’s powerful, relatable, truth and has beautiful but simple images (which I liked a lot).

 

Book review of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Book review of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Written in the most spectacular point of view. Every sentence I read made me want to bookmark it and make into a spontaneous collage of Beautiful Words. But then I realized I was already holding that! This is what the Book Thief is. A delicate balance of the horrid historical time period perfected with Beautiful Words. And a girl who loves books. And an accordion, and a friend. What other way could death be fended off than by words? Liesel tells us. 

” *** THE BOOK THIEF – LAST LINE ***

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained. ” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (528)

Liesel, an orphaned girl, is sent to live with a foster family right beforethe Nazi’s take over Germany.

She has a peculiar attachmentto books, her first being a gravedigger’s manual that she picks up during her brother’s funeral.

Death takes an interest in her and her books on that day and follows her, sometimes constantly and sometimes at a distance.

There’s just something so fascinating about her that Death cannot stay away.

Meanwhile Liesel slowly grows upin the heart of Nazi Germany.

Her adoptive Papa and Mama make her bleak life bearable. But Rudy, her best friend, makes everything right in this world.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

But their idyllic lives cannot stay that way forever.Food shortages are rampart,money becomes ever tighter and Papa’s son believes every word from Hitler.

And throughout all of this, Death watches…. and waits.

Even death has a heart.

Whew. I have avoided this one for so long…and I’m so glad that I finally took the plunge.

The Book Thief was just absolutely perfect in that sense. This book was just the right mixture of joys and sorrows, of highs and lows, and of good and evil.

I loved Liesel and the way she grew up against the ever-present tide of Nazis.

The way she and her family struggled against the world, by hiding a Jew or showing sympathy, really made this book shine.

Death made-an interesting perspective, though I wish the book would have been narrated more from inside his head.

Overall, loved this one.Seven thousand stars could never be enough for this book.

What was the last book you brought? I’d love to know + I really hope y’all are doing okay🌸