Book Review Archives - Bubbly Bibbly

11/22/63 by Stephen King

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Alternate History, Book Review

Summary: If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it? Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who teaches adults for extra money. One student submits a gruesome,...

14 by Peter Clines

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy, SciFi

Summary: Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his...

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...

2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, precocious nine-year-old and an aspiring jazz singer. As she mourns the recent death of her mother, she doesn’t realize that on Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day—and night—of her life. After...

29 by Adena Halpern

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter,...

666 Park Avenue by Gabrielle Pierce

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: What if your mother-in-law turned out to be an evil, cold-blooded witch . . . literally? Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, fledgling architect Jane Boyle has been living a fairy tale. When he proposes...