I was about 75% of the way through the book when my brain was still trying to figure out and solve the mystery.

But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bitter monster?

I feel like the author was writing multiple story lines like you would see in a tv show or movie.

I felt at times like I was reading someone's personal diary. Some of the scenes made me feel like I was watching a very private moment.

...you MUST read these stories in order of release and cannot skip around. While we know these stories, they don't tend to overlap...

we got the first hand account of Millie, the maid, then the wife, and then a little back and forth. This book continued that same pattern.

Dark plots set in motion more than thirty years ago...Will the professor intervene in time to spare the world from the Occupant?

Once the fireworks have come to a finish, they find that the loud woman who had been picking fights all afternoon had been murdered...

My review is for the audio version of this book. First I want to point out that I listened to this on Spotify.

The story was cute and it really did leave you wondering who-done-it. That is one thing I truly enjoy about this author's writing.

I'm going to be real honest with y'all (like I'm never not honest). May was a shit show! I also realized that my 29th birthday sucked so why not my 39th. Then we had to put our dog down in June so it was equally as shitty!

At sixteen, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town.

In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

I really wanted April to be my catch up month. Outside of my own book club I had several books I wanted to finish so I could go into May with no lingering books! Well...that didn't quite work out.

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room.

Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched across her little thigh. And I prayed that one day this set of numbers, identical to her mother’s, would have the power to reunite a family torn apart by war.

This great American novel demonstrates Alcott's extraordinary talent at portraying the joys and struggles of family life in an unforgettable way. Generations of people - young and old, male and female - have fallen in love with the March sisters.