The Rose Code by Kate Quinn was a must-read for me. I’m picky when it comes to WWII novels (there’s so many of them!), but I felt sure Quinn could find a way to tell a story about it that was worth reading. The code-cracking intrigues at Bletchley Park are one aspect of that time …
Chapter 1 You Love Me opens with Joe Goldberg waiting to meet with his attractive new boss, Mary Kay DiMarco, who is a librarian at the Bainbridge Public Library in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Joe has been detained in jail recently for nine months. The Quinn family footed Joe’s legal bills to get Joe out of …
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune was released last year and mostly passed me by. I recall thinking it had a great title and really lovely cover (see notes about the making of that cover here), but it wasn’t until I started seeing positive reviews of it from people I know that …
Chapter 1 Linus Baker is a case worker who has been assigned by the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (“DICOMY”) to investigate an incident at an orphanage. Daisy, 11, used her powers to throw a chair at another kid, Marcus. Linus suggests that perhaps some type of “extreme emotion state” triggered her powers. Among …
You Love Me (You #3) by Caroline Kepnes is the third book in the series (and Season 3 of the Netflix show “You” will be adapting this book), and it’s scheduled to be released on April 6th 2021. It’s also exactly what fans of the series have been hoping for. The charming but delusional Joe …
