A.R. Mummey's Blog

This review contains SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens

Also posted on Goodreads.

I'd been debating about whether to read this book for months now and I finally decided to give it a shot......... It was devastating. This book bothered me on a whole other level. I wanted to cry. I sniffled back tears I was so enraged at Kiara and Kellan and sad for Denny. The whole time he was being cuckolded by Kiara and she was too blind and dumb to see it. This is a...

Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
++++++This review contains spoilers++++++

Also posted on Goodreads

This is a one off for me. It was a book I had been given last year and was on my reading list but I just never felt in the mood to sit down and read until today. Overall, it’s a solid read. Creepy, especially those damn little dolls, ominous, with an unsolved murder at the center.

The main character, Sophie, is playing the Oujia board with her best friend, Jay. She asks to speak to her cousin who die...

This is a throwback to my first love, the old-fashioned murder mystery. My first foray into this genre was Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. I remember borrowing my sister's copy at a young age and being enraptured by the novel. This was swiftly followed by my falling deeply in love with all things Christie. I have every Poirot, every Marple, and almost every novel Christie has written. Which brings me to this. I've been desperately trying to find another author who captures my atte...

First off, I want to thank those that have been reading my blog and/or commenting on it. Thank you. Second, someone asked me recently how I felt about the books I read and review and whether or not I would recommend them. The short and long of it is, yes! Read, read, read! How do you know you won't like it? Give it a try. Every book I read I full heartedly feel you should give a shot. You may have a completely different opinion. Books are made to enjoy. They give us hope, laughter, sadness, d...

Mind Games/Double Cross/Head Rush

This was a tough call. I love books. I love reading, writing, editing, anything related to books, including critiquing. It's been awhile since I've posted a review so I had to peruse my list of books to find something more on key with everything else I've reviewed on here. I tend to jump around between YA/NA and straight up adult novels. Romance, Fantasy, SciFi, Contemporary. But in thinking about what I've read recently this stuck out for me because Carolyn C...

Author Sarah Rees Brennan

Going into this book I was excited yet apprehensive. I was worried this book would be heavy on the romance and light on the mystery and fantasy. But, I have to say this book went above and beyond my expectations and surprised me. The romance is very light, if barely there and the paranormal elements will take you completely by surprise. When choosing a book I try not to read deeply into reviews so they don’t spoil anything for me, so I won’t say what the mysterious Ly...

The Westing Game

Author Ellen Raskin

Now, normally I stick to reviewing YA/NA but I just re-read this recently and even though it's mainly a middle grade book, I feel everyone should read it at least once.

The first time I read this book I was eight or nine years old. It's stuck with me over the years for both it's simplicity and brilliance. Every time I start to feel a little dead inside I read this book to remind myself I'm human: I can laugh and cry. There's something profound about children...

++++++++++++++also posted on goodreads and facebook++++++++++++

Fall From Grace (Mad World 1)

Author Christine Zolendz

For me this is a four out of five. It's got great characters, depth, plot, growth, etc. The only thing that stopped me from LOVING it was that the main character, Grace, is blind. Blinded by prejudice she doesn't see what everyone else around her sees until it's too late. So there's a few twists, none of which will take you by surprise.

The book starts with Grace's brother dying...

Previously posted on Goodreads and Facebook

4 out of 5 stars

The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly

I love good prose! Even if a book is a little flat, if it's got good prose, I'm sold. And this book did that for me. It starts off with our narrator, Nova, and her best friend Alex stumbling across a dead deer. Well, mutilated to be more accurate, with a foxglove stuffed in it's mouth. Nova, Alex, and their enemies, Matt and Jenika are the prime suspects. Lower class, working at her grandfather's din...

Previously posted on Goodreads and Facebook

This is a 3 out 5 star book for me

So...Asylum. Well, not the best book. It started off strong for me and then slowly went downhill the rest of the way. This is a book that had a lot of directions it could take and, even though it didn't take the most obvious path, the ending fell a little flat, and was still pretty obvious. I will say there was maybe one nice twist in there though.

Dan is a bit of a geek and goes off to spend the summer at a college p...