Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★☆☆ #BookReview #BookBlog

Primary Genre(s): Noir Fiction
Published: 17 Aug 2021 by Del Rey
Page count: 288 (print)
My Format: ebook   
Cover: Amazing
Pacing: Okay
Ending: Unsatisfying  
Do I Recommend: Maybe
Commission Link (U.S.): Buy Velvet Was The Night

My rating: ★★★☆☆

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James ★★★★★ #BookReview #BookBlog

Primary Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Fiction
Published: 18 Feb 2020 by Berkley
Page count: 327 (print length)
My Format: eBook via Overdrive/Libby
Cover: Nostalgic
Pacing: Good
Ending: Good  
Do I Recommend: Yes
Commission Link (U.S.): Buy The Sun Down Motel

My rating: ★★★★★

Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris ★☆☆☆☆ #BookReview #BookBlog

 

Primary Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Published: 19 June 2018 by St. Martin’s Press
Page count: 298 (audio 07:36:00)
My Format: Audiobook via Hoopla
Cover: Okay
Pacing: Slow, repetitive
Ending: Cop-out
Would I recommend it: No
Commission Link: Buy Bring Me Back

My rating: ★☆☆☆☆    

Fallen Mountains by Kimi Cunningham Grant ★★★★☆ #bookreview

Synopsis from Goodreads
When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his sleepy hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only ones that threaten to emerge. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by the possibility that a crime Transom was involved in seventeen years earlier—a crime Red secretly helped cover up—may somehow be linked to his disappearance. Possum, the victim of that crime, wants revenge. Laney will do anything to keep Transom quiet about the careless mistake they made that could jeopardize her budding relationship. And Chase, once a close friend, reels from Transom’s betrayal of buying his family’s farm under false pretenses and ruthlessly logging it and leasing the mineral rights to Marcellus shale frackers. As the search for Transom Shultz heats up and the inhabitants’ dark and tangled histories unfold, each one must decide whether to live under the brutal weight of the past or try to move beyond it.

My Thoughts
First off, I have to say that I think my temperature actually rose while I read this book (and I was stuck in my house during a snowstorm when I read it)! The descriptions of the summer heat were very realistic to the point it was almost tangible!