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Audiobook Review: Winter by Marissa Meyer

January 17, 2018 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Audiobook Review: Winter by Marissa Meyer

First Impressions: Winter by Marissa Meyer is the conclusion to the Lunar Chronicles.  Ever since I finished Cress I had looked forward to reading the conclusion to the Lunar Chronicles.  Sadly, I was not as swept up by the story as I had hoped to be.  Cress ended with a cliffhanger and I expected that […]

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Audiobook Review: My Story by Elizabeth Smart

January 10, 2018 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Audiobook Review: My Story by Elizabeth Smart

In 2017 I jumped on the Elizabeth Smart bandwagon, I watched the Lifetime Movie and the A&E documentary and of course, I read her memoir. I listened to the audiobook of My Story narrated by the author, Elizabeth Smart. Like Waiting To Be Heard by Amanda Knox, I received a sensationalized story by a privileged […]

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Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine

November 7, 2017 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine

As a 9-year-old I loved the Goosebumps series and now, as a 29-year-old several times over I decided to reread this favored series of old. Welcome to Dead House made me feel my actual age. What I Liked I recalled R.L. Stine having a tendency to play with my mind; working myself up to know […]

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End of Watch by Stephen King

November 1, 2017 Whitney Review 0 Comments
End of Watch by Stephen King

End of Watch by Stephen King is the end of the Bill Hodges Trilogy I very much enjoyed the first two in the series and looked forward to reading the last installment. One year after its release I am finally getting around to reading it. All my favorite characters returned one last time. Jerome and […]

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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

August 18, 2017 Whitney Review 4 Comments
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead held great promise. The novel had an interesting idea of the Underground Railroad being an actual railroad, unfortunately, that is where it ends. The Underground Railroad was an undeveloped idea that never turns from a cocoon into a butterfly. The characters were rather dull and, despite all they had […]

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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

August 17, 2017 Whitney Review 0 Comments
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is a very formulaic author. He designs two star-crossed lovers living on opposite sides of the tracks and despite all odds come together. Even if I had not seen the movie before hand I could have seen where the story was going. Although, being predictable was not my biggest complaint with The Notebook. […]

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Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

August 10, 2017 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

I cannot believe Fates and Furie was Obama’s best book of 2015. Yes, this is a story of marriage but not a realistic one. The majority of the book focused on their sex-life, with Lotto and Mathilde coming off as sex-crazed teenagers and was more information than I needed. Fates and Furies is split into […]

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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

August 7, 2017 Whitney Review 0 Comments
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

I never thought I’d say it, but I preferred Mandy Moore to Nicholas Sparks. A Walk to Remember was my first foray into Nicholas Sparks and I have to say, I was not impressed. I knew the premise before I began, I knew I was in for a tear-jerker. However, I did not expect the […]

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The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

July 31, 2017 Whitney Review 2 Comments
The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

First Impressions: The Night Sisters is first perceived as a murder/police procedural novel; a genre I eat up — bring it on! Novel Impressions: I have mixed feelings about The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon. Like the The One I Left Behind this novel is told in flashbacks of Amy’s mother Rose and the events […]

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