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Review: Cinder

February 1, 2013 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Review: Cinder

Cinder is a retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella, but is completely different from any other retelling I have yet encountered.  It is futuristic and this Cinderella is cyborg. I like to pride myself, that I am pretty good about figuring out plot twists ahead of time, I had Cinder’s true hidden identity (even to […]

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Review: Gone Girl

January 11, 2013 Whitney Review 16 Comments
Review: Gone Girl

My family has gone away for Christmas every year since I was little, and each year there seems to be one book that is floating around the airport.  Last year while waiting for connections everyone was reading Stephen King’s 11/22/63 (including myself) this year, it was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Gone Girl seemed to appear […]

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Review: Devil’s Knot

October 18, 2012 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Review: Devil’s Knot

This book made me angry,  I found there to be six victims in this story not three, and a vast miscarriage of justice.  The West Memphis Three as they have been dubbed were guilty the minute they walked into the courtroom due to a biased jury and judge.  Misskelley, who clearly has some learning disabilities […]

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Review: Under The Banner Of Heaven

March 3, 2012 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Review: Under The Banner Of Heaven

To better understand these motives Jon Krakauer, the author flip-flops between the heinous, unbelievable actions of 1984 and the creation of the Mormon religion and its prophet, Joseph Smith. Discovering the golden plates and the start of the religion was very interesting but the disturbing subject of polygamy and how Fundamentalists behave then and now […]

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Review:11/22/63

January 13, 2012 Whitney Review 5 Comments
Review:11/22/63

If given the opportunity to travel back in time would you risk changing history and its potential future, or would you let sleeping dogs lie?  This is the question Jake Epping is faced with.  After finding a portal into the past Jake is transported into September 1958, with a mission– prevent  the JFK assassination.  Easier […]

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Review: Before I Go To Sleep

October 27, 2011 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: Before I Go To Sleep

Before I Go To Sleep is to be likened to the film, Memento, only without Guy Pierce and on crack.  Remember, crack is wack. Christine Lucas, gained amnesia after a hit and run accident and can only hold one days memories at a time, when the clock strikes midnight, her brain hits rewind to play […]

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Reveiw: Envy

July 14, 2011 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Reveiw: Envy

Truthfully, this book pissed me off.  I’ve never been “and they lived happily ever after” reader, in fact, I prefer they don’t as it can sometimes be too cutesy.  In Envy, evil triumphs over good and it annoyed me that the two main characters I love to hate, Penelope and Carolina somehow always manage to […]

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Review: Rumors

July 9, 2011 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Review: Rumors

I thought for this review I’d do a rundown on all the characters. Elizabeth, it appears has been inducted into Sainthood after her untimely death and because of such, keeps creeping back into dark corners. Diana is looked upon as the poor younger sister to the deceased Elizabeth Holland and has tossed in her lap […]

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Book Review: The Luxe

July 6, 2011 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Book Review: The Luxe

At first, the Holland sisters, Elizabeth, and Diana seem to have it all being the desired socialites and now, despite her best friend Penelope’s resentment Elizabeth is suddenly engaged to Henry Schoonmaker.  Everything appears perfect until Elizabeth is thrown from a horse and buggy and disappears into the Hudson River. Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe is […]

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