I had the distinct pleasure of receiving an advanced copy of Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica (release date: May 18th, 2021) in exchange for an honest review. So let’s start! Local Woman Missing focuses on a peaceful community. Well, a peaceful one until a woman named Shelby Tebow goes missing, followed by Meredith Dickey and her 6-year-old daughter Delilah not long after that. Unfortunately, the case goes cold…until Delilah returns 11 years later.
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I was lucky enough to be given an advance copy of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before The Coffee Gets Cold from HarperCollins Canada. Of course, this is in exchange for an honest review!
I’ll admit, this book isn’t anywhere close to what I was expecting. All I really remember reading when I was looking at books I could review was the following: “What would you change if you could travel back in time?” I had figured it was going to be much more of a science fiction story than it was. Within the first few pages after I realized this wasn’t the case, I thought it was only a matter of time before I became disappointed in the story. However, this didn’t happen! I guess it just goes to show that even if a book isn’t what you were expecting, doesn’t mean that it’ll disappoint you.
First off, I would like to thank HarperCollins Canada for sending me an advanced copy of this book, in brilliant packaging no less, in exchange for an honest review.
Cold Storage by David Koepp is the story about a fungus that is both highly mutative and capable of fast destruction of just about everything in its path. The story begins with Robert Diaz and a team going to investigate what was thought to be a biochemical attack but what turns out to be this organism starting to wreak havoc on earth. Thankfully, Diaz manages to contain the fungi and keeps it locked away in cold storage, never to be worried about again… Well, until decades later, when the specimen has found a way out and is back on a lethal journey. It is once again a race against time before the fungus takes over.
First, I would like to say thank you to HarperCollins Canada for sending me an advanced copy of Dear Wife by Kimberley Belle in exchange for my participation in the Instagram takeover on June 24th. Although I am writing this review before then, I already know I have more to say than what I am going to be posting there, so I wanted to take this opportunity to write about Dear Wife here on my blog. As always, my opinions are honest and my own. Now let’s get to it!
First, I would like to say I was incredibly lucky to be given the opportunity to read an advanced copy of The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood in exchange for an honest review. I knew I wanted to read this book because, though I didn’t mention it to anyone except some family members, I actually grew up incredibly close to where the Dionne quintuplets (Yvonne, Annette, Marie, Cecile, and Emilie) were born, the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy, and so I’ve heard about them in passing my entire life. This includes seeing the old log cabin that was the family’s home turned into a museum in its former location for many years on the ride to school in North Bay. The museum is not currently open, but it is supposed to reopen this year in a new location, and I hope to get the chance to visit it when I am visiting my parents. I also have driven many times on the highway built into a major highway (for the North) rather being kept as an old country road solely due to the tourism the Dionne quintuplets brought to the area.
But before I keep talking about all of that, I’d like to focus back on the book The Quintland Sisters and what I thought of this presentation of their story.
Walking The Forest Floor 