Cheryl's Book Nook

Girls just wanna have guns. Males are almost always the perpetrators of mass shootings. But females are fully capable of shocking acts of violence and, in the US, military-style weapons are as easy to access as a new hairstyle. Like Fight Club for girls, Project XX is a biting satire of the American obsession with violent destruction in the midst of rampant materialism. The darkly humorous story of girls on a rampage will grip you by the throat and not let go until you gasp for breath on the last page. My Review In order for a book to work you have to like the character. Well, it does help anyways. In this case, I not only did not like the main character but found her very bitter and annoying. I kept waiting for the story to start. If this book was about an angry teenager, who did not have a good relationship with her mom, than, this book fits. Yet, I am left wondering where is this turning point when the story gets to the destruction that girls/women can be mass killers as...

Inside the Book: Title : THE GHOSTWRITERS Author : Mickey J. Corrigan Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Pages : 194 Genre : Mainstream Thriller She’s ghostwriting a book for a famous author—who is recently deceased. A struggling writer living in Manhattan, Jacy McMasters is the first to admit she’s a terrific liar and a screw-up. Then the ghost of the famous novelist JD Balinger asks her to “channel” a follow-up to his classic coming of age book  The Watcher in the Sky . Along with her new boyfriend, a bear of a man who has no patience for mind games, the ghost in Jacy’s head forces her to confront a lifetime of secrets—dark secrets. Secrets she’s been keeping from herself. My Review Here is another book that I seem to be in the minority group. I could barely make myself get to chapter 5. Jacy gave off this angry vibe. However, her interactions with JD were entertaining. Yet, my issues with this book were that it seemed that there was many pages spent talking about ...