Reviewed By Melanie Koopmans, September 2023
The Final Gambit is the third installment in the Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and continues Avery’s story from the second novel. Avery just has to survive a couple more weeks in the Hawthorne house before she becomes the richest teenager in the world, and the only thing getting her… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, September 2023
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides follows the main character, Alicia Berenson, a patient at a psychiatric institution due to the talented painter’s silence after shooting her husband multiple times. Theo Faber, a psychologist, becomes obsessed with what happened to her/what she did. As he… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, September 2023
In Jojo Moyes' novel, Me Before You, the main character, Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark, gets laid off when the local coffee shop she works at closes. Forced to find a last minute position, she takes up caregiving for a quadriplegic man named Will Traynor. Will was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, forcing his very… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, September 2023
The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks follows the lives of Noah Calhorn and Allie Hamilton. They fell in love in the 1940s despite coming from different financial backgrounds. Sadly, their relationship was brief and lasted only one summer. However, several years later through something that can only be described… Read more
Reviewed by Emily Hafeman, September 2023
The book "I will always write back" is a true story about the perspectives of two very different pen pals. Caitlin is an American girl who is very wealthy compared to Martin who is a boy living a poor life in Zimbabwe. Caitlin and Martin were selected… Read more
Reviewed by Molly Koopmans, September 2023
In Lucy Scores book, “Things We Never Got Over” it follows Naomi Witt, a runaway bride, running away from not only her fiance but from her entire life.… Read more
Reviewed by L. Chapman, August 2023
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell disects what truly contributes to the success of the best and brightest. Contrary to what the majority of people believe, Gladwell sets out to show that success is not truly meritocratic. While merit can contribute to one’s success, the large impacts of family, generation,… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, July 2023
Harriet and Wyn have always been perfect for each other. Ever since college they’d been together until, to Harriet’s surprise, they weren’t. Struggling with her surgical residency and the breakup with her long term fiance, Harriet was in need of her annual trip to Maine. Every year since she started college… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, July 2023
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes follows the story of Avery Grambs, a supposedly normal teenager. She attended high school, worked as a waitress, lived with her sister, regularly slept in her car to avoid her sister's boyfriend, and played chess with a homeless man in order to buy… Read more
Reviewed by Melanie Koopmans, July 2023
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes picks up at the end of the first novel in the series, The Inheritance Games. In the first novel Avery and the Hawthorne brother’s start their investigation into how and why Tobias Hawthorne, a well-known multi-billionaire, left most of his wealth and his… Read more