I 💙 Audiobooks

I wanted to like this more than I did...since it takes place in a retail store and I work in retail; it should have been right up my alley. Unfortunately, it moved so quickly that I felt like I was always two steps behind storywise and before I knew it...it was over. Also, what kind of store doesn’t have someone working at night, where I work that’s when all the stocking gets done. They should at least have security of some sort at the very least. But, what I do I know, I've never even been to an Ikea.

Pumpkin Tree = Called + Read

I wanted to give it 5 stars but It did make me super sad a couple of times and it might have felt a little stretched out length-wise, plus the ending was hella crazy...like I’m not sure what even fully went down kind of crazy. Overall, I totally recommend this, it’s got this special kind of quality that makes it unlike any other zombie story out there. Also, the narration is top-notch, Robert Petkoff knocked it out of the park with this one.

Thank goodness for Audiobooks because I’m pretty sure that I would have struggled with finishing this if I had read it. The pacing was quite slow for the first two-thirds of the book. The ping-ponging between love interests with the two Hawthornes was a little much for me, also. Obviously, the last third helped this from being a complete snooze-fest. It was even rather good. The fact that I’ve always liked JLB’s books and the concept of being some random girl who inherits millions...or is billions, is very interesting, plus the riddles and games make this a fun series of books.

It’s been a while since I read a book that pulled me in as this did. At first, it read like it was going to be like so many other college reunion thrillers out there these days...but before long I was obsessed with knowing the truth. So many secrets between this group of seven college friends. The unraveling of them was perfectly paced and I never really knew what to expect right up to the very end. This is the author’s debut book, even.