Books: Haul & Reviews

It's time for another blog post on recently purchased and read books! I bought these on a whim last month because I was almost done with the Uglies series. All three of these books I got because the blurbs at the back covers sounded really good to me at the time.

 Rosebush by Michele Jaffe

  This is an interesting one. The main character, Jane woke up after a car accident and slowly finds out that someone close to her was the one driving the car and trying to kill her. She'd wake up to go to the bathroom and find threatening messages written in the mirror and stuff. It's all very dramatic, really. I like how the author makes it seem like everyone is suspicious. There's no way of telling who was the one who really tried to kill her until the very last chapter! 

Don't look back by Laura Lippman

This was my least favorite read out of all the three. If this is made into a movie, it'd be a really slow one which I won't be able to finish watching in one go. Maybe if you're into crime stories then you'd be into this but I guess I'm not.

I won't give anything major away but it's about a woman named Eliza who was kidnapped and raped when she was 15 but the police managed to find her and the kidnapper. The dude, Walter was sentenced to death because apparently he murders the girls he kidnapped. Eliza was an exception and people couldn't figure out why. Even though I don't see myself reading this again any time soon, I liked the parts where the author writes about Eliza's flashbacks during the time period when she was kidnapped. There was another girl who was kidnapped called Holly but she was murdered by Walter before they were found by the police. The story actually goes to show that people will really do anything to survive even if that means another person has to die. Or perhaps Eliza is just too young to save anyone else but herself.

The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt

This is probably my favorite read out of the three. Holt writes in the perspectives of many of the characters in the book which reminded me of Dan Brown's style of writing. The story takes place in the 1800s in the states and it talks of a man who has the gift to find water under neath the ground using a stick. Of course in that era a gift like that is highly respected by everyone but this man, Jake Kincaid only does it when necessary because he hates it. The story started from when he got married to when he gets old when his son grew up to be a man. This is an interesting read to me because I get to learn a little about how the people live back in the 1800s where they just walk everywhere and every day and live in old houses and farm all the time.