Althea's Reading Corner

September Reviews

Review preview: This is my first children's book that I have picked up from Netgalley for a review. I thought it would be a nice way to get some books that my 10 month old son might like as well as a way to share my thoughts on the book with other parents (hopefully).

Rating is 3 out of 5. Check out the full review here. Publication date is October 6, 2020. 

Review preview: Alice is a journalist for a small local country paper in England. When she answers the phone at work on a Wednesday she is shocked by the callers threat, "I am going to use cheese wire on you." Little did Alice know at that time that Wednesdays for the next several weeks would be filled with fear and the unknown of what the next threat from her stalker would be. Her boyfriend, Tom, hires a private investigator Matthew Hill because he does not have much faith in the police and their ability to keep Alice safe. Matthew is an ex-cop and works with this old partner DI Melanie Sanders who has been assigned to Alice's stalker case. As DI Melanie Sanders starts to look into Alice's case and her past, she discovers that Alice may not be who she said she is. Is it possible that Alice's past has caught up to her? Could her ex-fiancee Alex really be behind the stalking? Alice doesn't think so, but the that the police learn about Alex, the more they start to think that he is behind the stalking of Alice... 

Rating is 3 out of 5. Check out the full review here.

Review preview: I was drawn to this book for a number of reason: the location, a favorite author, genre, and the story line. The Look-Alike takes places in Tranquility Bluffs, WI. I immediately became very excited for this as I live in Madison, WI. Now, Tranquility Bluffs is not an actual town in WI, however, Erica Spindler does mention some popular tourist places in her book like UW Madison Campus, Madison, and Door County...

Rating is 5 out of 5. Check out the full review here.

Review preview: I don't typically read self-help books but this one was quite interesting and it is not your typical self-help book. Don't Be a Victim is broken down into five different parts: How do I protect my child, protecting yourself, travel safe! Don't become a statistic, Cyber crimes and security: when technology turns dirty, and protecting our elderly. Each of those parts are then broken into smaller topics. Nancy Grace fills each topic with a ton of real life examples, some of them are even personal ones of events that she or her family have gone through...

Rating: 5 out of 5. Check out the full review here.

Review preview:  It has been several months since Detective Natalie Lockhart has lost her sister, solved her childhood horror mystery, and caught and killed the Crow Killer in Burning Lake, New York. Natalie is still going through the seven stages of grief and has still not quite yet figured out how to cope with everything that has happened to her. The last thing that Natalie wants is to be given another high profile case when she is trying to still put her life back together again. However, on Halloween night, which is the busiest time of the year for Burning Lake, Natalie is called to a scene where she finds a young women who is dead inside a dumpster. At first Natalie does not want to take lead on the case but something resonates with her and she knows that she must try to help this poor young dead women. Little does Natalie know though is that this young dead woman is going to dredge up more of her past and possibly put her back into the limelight that she is trying so hard to avoid again... 

Rating is 5 out of 5. Check out the full review here. 

Upcoming Reviews

Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan 

Publication day: October 27, 2020

Review date: Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 6 am CST

Rating: 5 out of 5

More Fish Faces by Tam Warner Minton

Review date: Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 6 am CST

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Current to be read list

Below is the list of all of the books that are currently on my to be read list. I am going to try to read as many as possible by the end of October but it is possible that some might trickle into November. The list is in no particular order.

1. A Garland of Bones by Carolyn Haines

2. Five Little Words by Jackie Walsh

3. Stalked by Gaynor Torrance

4. Every Waking Hour by Joanna Schaffhausen

5. Dino-Thanksgiving by Lisa Wheeler

6. One by One by Ruth Ware

7. Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

8. The Christmas Killer by Alex Pine

9. Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

10. The Girls in the Snow (Nikki Hunt Book 1) by Stacy Green

11. The Pact by Dawn Goodwin

12. Blood Victory by Christopher Rice

13. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

14. They're Gone E.A. Barres

15. Ghost by James Swallow