Review: Dear Edward

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was based on true events where a young boy was the only survivor of a plane crash.

Edward is flying with his parents and brother to California from New York. The boys are nervous about leaving NY as it is the only home they have known. Their mom is a script writer for a famous tv show and is being offered a better job and their dad is a math professor.

The story is about Edward and his recovery from the most tramatic experience anyone could ever imagine. An excellent book and looking forward to reading other books by this author.

Review: Dark Matter

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a very well written, interesting story. A married scientist/doctor goes out one night for a short trip to the stores and doesn't return. He remembers being abducted by someone disguised as a geisha.

That is all I am going to say about the book as anything else will give the story away.

This was out of my comfort zone as a genre but the story was good and I would like to read more from this author.

Review: Dark Sacred Night

Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Harry Bosch is back and this time teemed up with Renee Bernard, a cop with a past. The two are looking at cold case files, Bosch full time and Renee part time between other assignments. They work so well together and seem to have the same blood coursing through their veins. In this episode they are looking for the killer of Daisy who was murdered nine years previously.

It is a very smart, detailed plot taking each tiny clue and running with it until they find what they are looking for.

An excellent read.

Review: Her Every Fear

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A thoroughly enjoyable murder mystery. Kate, an English girl has been through a terrible trauma. An old boyfriend locked her in a cupboard and committed suicide in the room and she couldn't escape.

After this terrible episode in her life she became very nervous, as you can imagine.  She receives an offer from a cousin in Boston to swap apartments with her for six months. His job requires him to be in London and the swap would enable her to take some art courses in Boston.

But poor Kate seems to be a magnet for creepy people.

Excellent!

Review: U is for Undertow

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Absolutely wonderful series. I love the Kinsey Milhone detective series and also love the narrator, Judy Kaye. To me, she is Kinsey and as soon as I hear her voice I know I am in for a good few hours of fun.

In this episode a fellow named Michael Sutton is steered to Kinsey through a police detective who thinks that she can help him. Michael is in his twenties now, but he seems to recall an incident from when he was six where he saw two men digging a hole to bury, what he thought, was a child's body. Of course Kinsey doesn't really take this seriously because it was too far fetched, however Michael paid her some money up front to just have a look around to see if anything turned up.

As usual this was a very intriguing story about an old crime that should have been solved years ago.

An excellent read.

Review: Every Note Played

Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Excellent read. I really didn't know what to expect when I started this book. It is an in depth journey of one man from the time he is first diagnosed with ALS. He was a wonderful concert pianist, divorced and with a daughter in university.

We first meet him when he is living in his own walk up flat in Boston. He has care givers that come and help him during the day, but he still has a modicum of independence. Things start to become worse quite quickly and one day while he can still go for a walk, he discovers that he needs the bathroom badly and can't make it to his home. He tries to call for help on his phone but mistakenly calls his ex wife. She does come right over and helps him and she realizes that he can no longer be on his own.

She becomes his caregiver and we go through all the horrible stages of ALS with them. We hear their thoughts and their regrets to each other.

I can feel that its important to understand this disease and also other debilitating diseases. This author also wrote of a woman with alzheimer disease and it was very informative. These are all things that we should know

Review: Night of Miracles

Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a continuation of the Arthur Truluv series. It was so lovely to revisit this story and see how it comes to its conclusion.

Maddy and little Nola are away while Maddy is in college and Lucille is renting the house from her. Maddy has met the love of her life and they are planning on getting married, and another great part of that is that Matthew also adores Nola.

We can now breathe relief as we know how all the little ends have been tied up in a very feel good way.