Tuesday 19 March 2024

πŸ“š Tarryn Fisher ♊ GOOD HALF GONE πŸ“š

   ©  Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰  



GOOD HALF GONE
Tarryn Fisher


• 19 March 2024
• standalone Mystery Suspense

★★★★
4.25 Stars


From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wives

Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her?

Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister’s fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold.

Now an adult, Iris wants one thing—proof. And if the police still won’t help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning at the isolated Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane, where secrets lurk in the shadows and are kept under lock and key. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the Shoal, and that the patients aren't the only ones being observed…




Nine years ago 15 year old Iris and her twin sister Piper went to the movies with some guys. At the end of that night Piper was dragged into a car and hasn't been seen since.
No one believed Iris that Piper was kidnapped, the police thought Piper was just a runaway.
And now 24 year old Iris is finally able to do something with all the evidence she collected on her own. She went to college and now she's interning in a hospital for the criminally insane on an island near Seattle. Someone in there knows something about her sister!

What will happen with Iris on that Island?
Will she find out the truth?
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!




I really enjoyed reading this.
It's interesting and mysterious and suspensy and sweet and heartbreaking from the first to the last word!
But it also felt a bit rushed from start to finish. No idea what I mean by that. It just felt too confusing. I wanted or rather needed a hundred more pages. I wanted more of the life Iris was living now and her schooling and work and all the things.
It could've been an amazing book but it somehow feels like a weird editor cut over 100 pages and made it not amazing.
BUT - I still really liked reading it. It was mysterious and suspensy. You might guess some things but you probably won't guess all the things! At least I didn't!

Great cover. Great book. I wouldn't mind seeing this on Netflix one day!

PS - if you're a tiny little bit of a water phobist... the cover water does not appear in the book - no one is going to drown! But we are in Seattle and on an Island - so there is a lot of water from above and below!

GOOD HALF GONE was a suspensy + mysterious + sweet + heartbreaking + sad + dangerous + slightly creepy story. I loved reading it! Run to your nearest book dealer for your own Iris - she'll be sold out in no time!

 
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Tarryn Fisher is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of ten novels. Born a sun hater, she currently makes her home in Seattle, Washington with her children, husband, and psychotic husky. Tarryn writes about villains.
Her heart is dark but she loves you with it anyway. Tarryn is the founder of Guise of the Villain, a fashion blog, and has written twelve published novels. Tarryn is a Slytherin.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

πŸ–€ Jodi Ellen Malpas πŸ”₯ THE AMERICAN ⭐ #UnlawfulMen5 πŸ–€

 πŸ“š Bianca ⭐ 




• 12 March 2024
• Unlawful Men #5 - final book!
• all books should be read in order!
★★★★★
4.8 Stars

Temptation has never been so dangerous.

A domineering force in Miami’s volatile criminal underworld, Brad Black is respected. Feared. His deadly accurate trigger finger and indestructible persona has earned him his intimidating reputation and, up until six months ago, hookers, drugs, and protecting the Black empire was the sum of his life’s purpose.

Until he saved her.

Wild, brave, and beautiful, Pearl Kennedy is Brad’s kryptonite. A distraction. A young distraction. But with enemies joining forces, coming at them with more force and less mercy than ever before, she’s also a
deadly distraction. Focusing on the end game, finding and killing their enemies, has to remain his priority.

But Brad completely underestimates the power of his connection with Pearl.

And he can’t shake the niggling feeling that there’s more to her than meets the eye.

Pearl Kennedy was saved from the clutches of human traffickers by one of the world’s most notorious criminals—Brad Black. Since being taken back to his family’s mansion in Miami, she’s felt safe and protected, despite Brad’s cold, brusque, and confusing treatment. He should disgust her—he’s flaunted his hedonistic tastes unapologetically. But no matter how hard Pearl tries to fight it, she’s drawn to the lethal, handsome killer.

Yet she knows she’s living on borrowed time, and to succumb to the attraction would be to expose herself and her secrets.

And then it will be just a matter of who will kill her first.

The monsters from her past.


Or Brad Black.




Rose + Danny
Beau + James
Pearl + Brad

We're back with all our darlings.
Now that one couple has a new baby and the other two are now married and expecting... we can concentrate on Brad and why he tries to resist his age-gappy attraction to Pearl.
Is it just the age? Or is it the fact that Pearl was kidnapped and had things done to her that he doesn't want to think about? Or is it her past? There are things she's not telling us...
But of course Brand and Pearl are not the only stars in this final book.
Danny and James are still looking for that one missing bad guy and now suddenly some other bad guys are trying to pin some murders on the Black family.
And Daniel seems to have some problems at school.
And that is so not all!

We have a long way to go until all of them can ride off into that happily ever after sunset!



This was the perfect finale for all our darlings!
We got lots of excitement. Suspense. Danger. Mystery.
Love. Family. Drama. Fun moments. Sexy times. Heartbreaking Times.
... and all the things!
I just adored this final book! I might not be the biggest mafia fan - I don't like it when my heroes torture and kill too many people - but it has to be this was. It was perfect the way it was. Even though it took us a long time to get to that happy end for everyone!
Amazing series!

I really need a Miami/St. Lucia-based TV show asap!



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Book #1

 

Book #2

 

Book #3
 

Book #4
 


Other Books by Jodi:

if you haven't read the THIS MAN series yet - DO IT NOW!!!

This Man Novella 3.5



Book #4




His POV Book #1
 

Book #2

 

Book #3 - May 2024
 





Book #2


Leave Me Breathless


  


The Protector




THE FORBIDDEN!

  








‘A lingering idea that I just couldn’t ignore.’ – Jodi Ellen Malpas

Jodi Ellen Malpas was born and raised in the Midlands town of Northampton, England, where she lives with her husband, boys, and a beagle. She is a self-professed daydreamer, a Converse and mojito addict, and she has a terrible weak spot for alpha males. Writing powerful love stories and creating addictive characters has become her passion—a passion she now shares with her devoted readers.

Her novels have hit bestseller lists for the New York Times, USA Today, Sunday Times, and various other international publications and can be read in more than twenty-four languages around the world.