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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage #BookReview #BabyTeeth #Thriller @zooshka #PenguinEbooks #onceuponatimebookreviews

by marnie harrisonon 30 Dec 20197 Jun 2021

Today I am reviewing Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage. This was released on the 16th of July, published by Penguin eBooks.

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  • 📚Book Review📚 ✨The Perfect Stepmother by Karen King @karenkingthrillers ✨Genre: Psychological Suspense ✨Publisher: @Bookouture ✨Released: 17th of June ✨#NetGalley ARC. My thanks to all for my advanced readers copy, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily ✨This cover with a lone woman standing behind the window gave me goosebumps when I first laid eyes on this book and I just had to know her story. After reading the blurb, the following questions kept running around in my head. What is she hiding, are her intentions pure and most importantly, does she have anything to do with the disappearance of her new husband’s little girl Emma? ✨Karen King has crafted a gripping and addictive page turner that I found very compelling. It is a slow burn, but the tension and suspense that is built up along the way sets the story up well for its outcome. You know it is going to be something big and there was no way I could put the book down until I knew how it was going to unfold. ✨The book opens with Emma’s disappearance then rewinds back eight months to where it is told from the points of view of Lily and Maria in the lead up. Immediately Lily has her guard up with her father’s new bride given that it is not even a year since her mother has passed and feels that there is more to her than meets the eye. Meanwhile Maria is hiding something so harrowing and shocking that if exposed, threatens to ruin her marriage and her new found happiness. ✨The Perfect Stepmother is not your normal run of the mill psychological suspense and there is so much more to it. What I was not expecting was how it pulled on my heartstrings and had me shedding a few tears. It plays out well, but what I loved the most was the ending! Oh my goodness!!! So good! With that said, I will finished this off by saying, this is a great read which I recommend you checking out. ✨Book description in comments ✨Buy Links Amazon: https://amzn.to/35tjhC4 Apple: https://apple.co/3wx8t1M Kobo: https://bit.ly/3cJ04jJ Google: https://bit.ly/2U799fT #BookReview #ThePerfectStepmother #PsychologicalSuspense #KarenKing #Bookouture #onceuponatimebookreviews
  • 📚Book Review📚 ✨The Child in the Photo by @kerry.wilkinson ✨Genre: Psychological Thriller ✨Publisher: @Bookouture ✨Released: 14th of June ✨#NetGalley ARC. My thanks to all for my advanced readers copy, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily ✨Imagine how it would feel to be happily living your life, only for it all to come crashing down around you in the blink of an eye. Everything you thought you knew, you now question and the ones you love and trust the most, could just well have been deceiving you for the last 30 years. ✨Family, secrets, lies and deceit all play a part in this wickedly woven tale that will have you on the edge of your seat as you become trapped in the pages. I became invested in the story and with its characters, desperately wanting all the answers. Kerry Wilkinson definitely knows how to grab his readers attention and where we are spoilt for choice with similar tales, he really knows how to make his interpretation stand out above the rest. ✨I enjoyed all the characters in the book, which again Kerry Wilkinson has excelled in their creation. Whether they are likeable or not, they all leave a lasting impression on you. In this case for me it was Stephen who is Hope’s best friend. Loyal and fiercely protective of her, all throughout I wished he was my friend! ✨Kerry Wilkinson has crafted another intriguing and gripping read that is addictive, suspenseful fast paced, twisty and just downright unputdownable! Let me tell ya, I was flicking those pages long into the night to see how it was going to unfold and I was not disappointed. So do yourself a favour and grab yourself a copy of this book today! like right this second. Go go go! ✨Buy Links Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xlyzEX Apple: https://apple.co/3gxq8Q1c Kobo: https://bit.ly/3gDjE2f Google: https://bit.ly/2Tygg0N ✨Book description in the comments #BookReview #BooksOnTour #TheChildInThePhoto #KerryWilkinson #PsychologicalThriller #Bookouture #onceuponatimebookreviews
  • 📚Book Review📚 ✨Title: Where the Grass is Green ✨Author: @laurenweisberger ✨Genre: Domestic Drama ✨Publisher: #HarperCollinsAustralia ✨Released: 10th June ✨#NetGalley ARC ✨I never really paid much attention to the news when the college admissions scandal first broke back in 2019, but since reading this book and educating myself by reading more about it and watching the documentary, Operation Varsity Blues on Netflix, it really has opened my eyes. ✨The story follows morning show anchor Peyton Marcus, her daughter Max and her sister Skye. Told through each of their points of view, it deals with the aftermath of Peyton's husband arrest for his involvement in a new college admission scandal, as well as the ripple effect it has on each of the characters lives. It pulls you in and has you hooked from the beginning to its satisfying endings for all. ✨I really enjoyed all the characters in the story. My heart went out to Max as she tries to come to terms with her parents actions. She really is the victim in this tale. Skye is a great character with her own secret that is made worse due to the scandal surrounding her sister. Now too Peyton. I admit at first I did not like her. I found her very self absorbed but, she is remorseful and has the most growth over the course of the book and in the end I quite liked her. ✨Where the Grass is Green is a thought provoking, insightful, very entertaining and scandalous read! If you are looking for something light, with a solid storyline, great characterisation and will keep you engaged from beginning to end, then this is the book for you. ✨Buy Links 🔗Amazon: https://amzn.to/3gld93P 🔗Apple: https://apple.co/3pC7U3Y 🔗Kobo: https://bit.ly/3xfIoEt 🔗Google: https://bit.ly/3ghfnkQ Thank you to Lauren Weisberger, Harper Collins Australia and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of Where the Grass is Green, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. Book description in comments #BookReview #WhereTheGrassIsGreen #DomesticDrama #LaurenWeisberger #onceuponatimebookreviews
  • 📚Cover Reveal📚 I Let Him In by Jill Childs What a cover!! I am loving this! Due for release on the 17th of August and can be pre order now! 🔗Amazon: https://geni.us/B096MP3X7Bcover 🔗Apple: http://ow.ly/bp2Y50F4h3g 🔗Kobo: http://ow.ly/ixMy50F4h1X 🔗Google: http://ow.ly/dhC650F4h53 ✨Book description: ‘I did something terrible. Something unforgivable. And I carry it with me every single day.’ At thirty-six, Louise is happy enough with her cramped apartment, a job that has her travelling twenty-five weeks a year and a string of not-too-serious relationships. When her latest boyfriend proposes and she breaks it off, older sister Jo worries Lou will never settle down. Lou stays silent – she wants desperately to be loved, but with the secret she’s carrying, letting someone go is safer than letting them in. Then a shocking accident leaves Lou unexpectedly housebound for months, and flashbacks from the traumatic childhood memory she’s kept buried begin to resurface, threatening her hard-won self-control. Desperate for some company, she hires Edward – a friend of a friend – to repaint her shabby living room and, hopefully, keep the ghosts at bay. But when Edward arrives – quiet, considerate and handsome – Lou feels inexplicably and powerfully drawn to him, almost like they’ve met before. Her sister Jo doesn’t trust him, but, following her instincts, Lou decides that at last she’s not going to carry her burden alone anymore. So Lou tells Edward her secret, and he doesn’t pull away. He doesn’t gasp, or grimace or preach about what she did. And Lou is so relieved… until she learns that Edward has his own secret, one he’s been waiting a very, very long time to tell… A gripping domestic drama full of twists, turns and unexpected endings from a USA Today bestselling author. Fans of Amanda Prowse, Kerry Fisher and Jodi Picoult won’t be able to stop turning the pages. #coverreveal #comingsoon #ilethimin #jillchilds #bookouture #onceuponatimebookreviews
  • 📚Book Review📚 Lost Souls by Jenny O’Brien Book 4 in the Detective Gaby Darin series Genre: Crime Thriller Publisher: #HQDigital Released: 21st of May #NetGalley ARC ✨How are we already at instalment 4 in this amazing series? It astounds me that each book I read from it, is like reading the opening blockbuster, not a followup in a series. This is such a credit to Jenny O’Brien that she is able to still keep it fresh and Lost Souls is no exception. Once again she smashes it out of the park and has delivered another outstanding read. ✨Lost Souls sees Detective Gaby Darin step up to acting DI where she is faced with not one or two but 3 what seem to be unrelated cases, that of a missing 10 year old child, an elderly woman, and the discovery of someones remains mixed up in another ones ashes! Whhhaaattt??? Boy does Gaby and her team have their work cut out for them in this one… ✨I mentioned in my review for instalment 3 (Fallen Angel) that this one was my favourite to date in the series, but Lost Souls has surpassed this! After I buckled up and got comfortable, knowing that anytime I read a book from Jenny O’Brien it is going to be an all nighter, I was taken on one very wicked and twisty ride as I was transported into the pages alongside Detective Gaby Darin in helping solve these cases. It wasn’t easy by any means! Jenny O’Brien keeps her cards very close to her chest in this one. ✨I hope that this review has not only enticed you to read Lost Souls, but also the other 3 books in this brilliant series, if you haven’t already. It really doesn’t get any better than this one. Each tale is masterfully plotted, perfectly written and researched, always has a cast of first class characters, even the undesirable ones, and just delivers each and every-time. It really is the whole package! ✨Buy Links 🔗Amazon: https://amzn.to/3584xIV 🔗Apple: https://apple.co/2Ru9ngh 🔗Kobo: https://bit.ly/3ggB84a 🔗Google: https://bit.ly/3w193o2 #BookReview #LostSouls #CrimeThriller #Series #JennyOBrien #onceuponatimebookreviews
  • Today I am reviewing on it’s publication day Now You Know by @nora_valters, published by @inkubatorbooks. 📚My Review📚 ✨Do you ever have one of those days that are such a disaster you feel like there are evil forces at work? Mostly it’s just a bad day, but if it keeps happening, at what point do you begin to question if somebody might be out to get you. ✨Now You Know is a super fast paced psychological thriller, where the pages just turn themselves. You are compelled to keep reading as you get caught up into the story and your desperation reaches fevered pitched wondering how this is all going to unfold. ✨Nora Valters really puts poor Lauren through the wringer in this story. What starts off as some minor yet unsettling happenings, soon escalate into some horrifying ones. As each became worse than the last, I was like girl, what could you have possibly done to upset someone so bad! ✨This is my first book by Nora Valters. I really enjoyed how she was able to manipulate the reader, as she steers you in one direction, only to spin It around to another you least expect. I was really impressed with that given there are so few characters in the book to suspect. ✨All together this is a well written, thrilling read that will have you flipping the pages long into the night. Nora Valters is now on my radar and I will be looking forward to what her next book will bring. ✨Thank you to Nora Valters, Inkubator Books and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of Now You Know, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. ✨Buy Links Amazon AU: https://amzn.to/3injzCm Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3psxNn2 Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3uVX9uo Book description in comments. #BookReview #NowYouKnow #PsychologicalThriller #NetGalley #NoraValters #InkubatorBooks #onceuponatimebookreviews
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