The Locked Door by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Dr Nora Davis lives in terror of people finding out who her Father is so when a copy cat starts killing her patients and the police question her she is terrified. Then she starts finding evidence planted in her house and car to make it look like she is the killer.

Finding the courage to reveal her past to her boyfriend, Brady, she is crushed when he rejects her and grows even more withdrawn and determined not to reveal her secrets to anyone. Her only friend is the stray cat she starts feeding.

Then she hears something in her basement and this time her secrets may cost her, her life if Brady and the brave cat don't intervene in time.

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Sparring Partners by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

Sparring Partners by John Grisham
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I wish I could rate the individual stories instead of the entire book.

"Homecoming" would have gotten 4 stars. I enjoyed catching up with Jake Brigance and Harry Rex. Their client is Mack Stafford (I remembered him from a previous boo where he was mentioned) who wants to come home from his life on the run. Unfortunately a vindictive Father in law ruins his plans.

"Strawberry Moon" would have got 1 star, I didn't like it at all Cody didn't deserve to be executed for being part of a home invasion, as a young boy. He and his brother were just trying to find food and get money for shelter.

"Sparring Partners" would have gotten 3 stars. Diantha Bradshaw manages to steal the tobacco settlement from her law partners.

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Shadow Fallen (Dream-Hunters, #6)

Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This has a lot of my favorite characters in it, but I am having a bit of a problem fitting it into the timeline since Grim is still tied to Adarian and Nick hasn't been born I am putting it in the past. Also some of my favorite characters are still bad guys so...it's a bit confusing.

Ariel (daughter of Michael and an Arel) is cursed and is sent to earth in human form according to the curse "the man she loves will die in her arms". Valterie the Godless has been dreaming of Ariel and is a bit put out when the woman of his dreams shows up on his doorstep with no memory.
Belial (demon sent to fetch Ariel for Kadar (Thorn's Dad) and Azura (Shadow's Mom) once she is corrupted, soon shows up posing as Ariel's brother. Making Valterie believe he had taken Ariel's virginity Belial convinces him to wed his "sister". Ariel starts to remember what she really is and the curse. Thorne and Shadow show up and try to help her but they don't know of anyway to break the curse.

They do discover a small hitch in Belial's plot Valterie isn't the hapless human Belial assumed him to be he is the son of Jaden (Acheron's Uncle) and a demigod. Falling in love with Valterie she can't bear the thought of him dying so she tries to leave several times, but each time Valterie follows her and brings her back.

Grim (Kadar's son in law that was news to me I didn't know Grim was married) summons Belial to Azmodea and tells him to turn Ariel over to him. He has plans to give her to the Malachai and fulfill the prophesy, of the final Malachai being born of light and dark. But Belial can't bear that being Ariel's fate so he tells her what they have planned for her when she offers him her soul if he will let Valterie live.

While Valterie can be harmed he can't be harmed by conventional weapons so when the Saxon's attack he goes into battle thinking he will be safe. Shadow and Thorn go with him. Believing he has just gone to work on the wall Ariel soon follows with lunch and arrives in time to see him killed by a pitchfork to the heart. Unwilling to see Valterie die she kills herself regaining her Arel powers and forces his soul back into it's body

To Valterie's surprise Ariel's punishment is to return in human form to Valterie and have her life tied to his. (Not sure how Jaden pulled that off) They have a daughter Daciana and become friends with Acheron.

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Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A fun read, April knows just what secret ingredient to put in your sweets, but who is texting April with threats to reveal the unsavory secrets she doesn't want you to know? Is it her new neighbor with the hot husband April can't get enough of, or her best friend who really hates her life?

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The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Author)

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I found it annoying how the author kept switching between the past and the present.

What would you do to keep your child alive? Would you build your house next to a spring that can work Miracles, but the miracles come at a price?

Jax has returned to the family estate for her sister Lexie's funeral but soon she begins to see Lexie everywhere she looks and the dark secrets in her family's past can either set her free or bind her forever.

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Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A simple barbecue changes the life of 3 couples forever.

Erika and Oliver planned to ask Clementine to donate her eggs so they can have a baby of their own, but the invite to the BBQ had the request rushed and Erika overhearing Clementine saying how repulsed she was by the request. Forcing Erika to confront the truth that her "best friend" views her as a charity project.

Sam and Clementine are confronted with how fast their perfect life can change when their daughter Ruby is pushed into the fountain by her sister Holly and would have died except for Ericka and Oliver's quick action.

Tiffany and Vid have to cope with their daughter Dakota blaming herself for the terrible accident as she had gotten tired of playing with the younger kids and went upstairs to read.

And Oliver and Tiffany who found Harry dead in his house weeks after the BBQ have to deal with the knowledge that he died trying to save Ruby. And yet no one thought to check on the lonely old man.

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A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner (Goodreads Author)

A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I wish she has stuck to one story instead of switching back and forth between the two, I found it very annoying.

Clara seemed a bit of an idiot as she was pining away on Ellis Island for a man she didn't really know. Although it was interesting how she paralleled the Shirtwaist Factory Fire with the Twin Towers. The stories didn't seem really connected

Taryn was grieving for her husband who died in the Twin Towers and dealing with her guilt in asking him to meet her at the Windows on The World and then being late which enable her to survive but cost her husband his life.

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