After finding some really great blogs last week through Feature & Follow hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read I decided to join in again. Each week they post a prompt, which you respond to, and then spend some time visiting and following other blogs (the following is an important part). This week, the prompt is…
My Holiday Reads…these are the books I plan on reading this holiday during my time off (what’s that??)…
I liked this question because, unlike last year when I worked all through the holidays, this year I’m off from the Wednesday before Christmas right through to the New Year – heaven!
I didn’t like this question because I’m not that good at planning, which means I have no idea what I’m going to read over the holidays…leaving me scrambling for the shelves and the kindle to try and get a clue. This is what I came up with (though I reserve the right to change my mind at any time…
I suppose first off I’ll be reading a couple of review copies due in January, both of which sound great.
The first, Good Me, Bad Me has a lot of hype around it so there is potential to be disappointed but I hope I won’t be based on reviews I’ve read.
NEW N A M E .
NEW F A M I L Y.
S H I N Y.
NEW.
ME .Annie’s mother is a serial killer.
The only way she can make it stop is to hand her in to the police.
But out of sight is not out of mind.
As her mother’s trial looms, the secrets of her past won’t let Annie sleep, even with a new foster family and name – Milly.
A fresh start. Now, surely, she can be whoever she wants to be.
But Milly’s mother is a serial killer. And blood is thicker than water.
Good me, bad me.
She is, after all, her mother’s daughter…
The second, The Trapped Girl is the fourth in the Tracy Crosswhite series, a character I am coming to love and from an author who is fast becoming one of my favourites.
When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?
After evidence surfaces that their Jane Doe may be a woman who suspiciously disappeared months earlier, Tracy is once again haunted by the memory of her sister’s unsolved murder. Dredging up details from the woman’s past leads to conflicting clues that only seem to muddy the investigation. As Tracy begins to uncover a twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she’ll find herself risking everything to confront a killer who won’t go down without a deadly fight.
Finally, I want to read my Kindle First book for this month, The Missing by Caroline Eriksson which I couldn’t resist because of a) the cover and b) the fact that it’s Scandinavian thriller (which I also can’t resist).
An ordinary outing takes Greta, Alex, and four-year-old Smilla across Sweden’s mythical Lake Malice to a tiny, isolated island. While father and daughter tramp into the trees, Greta stays behind in the boat, lulled into a reverie by the misty, moody lake…only later to discover that the two haven’t returned. Her frantic search proves futile. They’ve disappeared without a trace.
Greta struggles to understand their eerie vanishing. She desperately needs to call Alex, to be reassured that Smilla is safe, or contact the police. But now her cell phone is missing too. Back at her cottage, she finds it hidden away under the bedsheets. Had she done that? Or had someone else been in the cottage? But who, and why? As Greta struggles to put the pieces together, she fears that her past has come back to torment her, or she’s finally lost her grip on reality…
There will be more but what I just don’t know…there might be some books under the tree that need reading too (fingers crossed)…but I think this is a good start. What about you? What are you planning on reading over the holidays?
Emma
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