Books that you don’t want to put down because the next chapter will be better than the last.

The Music of Bees| Eilen Garvin

Summary: This book is about hope and change for three different people who are unexpectedly thrown together. You come to like and root for this characters who take you through their problems and traumas. It is a very uplifting and heart felt story as will as teaching you more than you problem want to know about bees. 

Gush Sesh: I just enjoyed every minute reading this book.


The Woman in the Window | A.J. Finn

Summary: This is a fast pace murder mystery that keeps you guessing to the end. The dialogue lets you know this characters whether you like them or not. Highly suspenseful and engaging, a real page turning well into the night. 

Gush Sesh: You like Hitchcock films you will love this book. 


The Cormoran Strike series : Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White and Troubled Blood. | Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling

Summary: If you like to following a reoccurring character this is a very good series. It is written by J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter fame. It is set in modern day London about a unusual private detective.

Gush Sesh: I just liked the well rounded characters. 

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