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With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Book Review

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Book Review
Emoni is a seventeen-year-old mother who lives with her grandmother in Fairhill and has a gift and passion for cooking. She can make anyone’s day better just with a bite of her food. When senior year starts, Emoni is at a crossroads for both her present and future. A new elective is starting at her school; culinary arts. But the bills are piling and she barely has enough time for her job, homework, and Babygirl as it is. Her heart longs for the kitchen but her mind is screaming at her about all the responsibilities she has. This school year, Emoni’s life will be shaped one way or another.

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The Turn of the Key By Ruth Ware Book Review

We follow a British nanny who is hired to work for a family in the Scottish highlands in an isolated estate with a smart house. The whole book is a group of letters she is writing from jail to her solicitor after she has been accused of murdering one of the children. She recounts in detail everything from the interview to the night of the murder in hopes of understanding what happened. From the many strange incidents to the history of the place and the so-called ghosts and the house malfunctioning over and over. The whole book has a gothic air to it and makes you wonder if ghosts could really be responsible for everything that is going on.

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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Book Review

Alecia has been in a mental hospital for years. Once, she was a popular painter in a happy marriage. Then one night, the cops find her surrounded by blood in her house with her husband tied and shot five times to the face. Her wrists were slit open, her fingerprints were on the gun. She didn’t defend herself. All she did was fight the police and the medics who tried to save her life. Ever since then, she hasn’t spoken a word. Instead, she painted one final piece and titled it Alcestes.

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