Tales with Nicole

The following review does contain spoilers from Volumes 1, 2 & 3.   Review: Paper Girls V1 Review: Paper Girls V2 Review: Paper Girls V3   "It's the girls' biggest, strangest adventure yet, as Tiffany and her fellow newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac and KJ are launched from prehistoric times into the year 2000, where they finally get some answers about what the hell is happening.   In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was ever more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12- year- old girl from 1988." - back cover of V4     Paper Girls V4 was an amazing volume that takes place during Y2K! It was actually really cool to see a time that I've experienced but with the alternate reality of robots in the year 2000. I learned so much about what is actually going on from this volume. While looking for Tiffany in the year 2000, KJ, Mac, and Erin find someone who explains...

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker "He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray - for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds. He is Special Agent John Douglas, the model for law enforcement legend Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris's thrillers Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs , and the man who ushered in a new age in behavorial science and criminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, John Douglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story." ( goodreads )   The first 100 pages of Mindhunter is slow going. It's like Douglas says a number of times throughout the book, ...

"Slasher films are a subgenre of horror films , typically involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering several people, usually with bladed tools." (Wikipedia) Growing up I was always a fan of horror movies. Friday the 13th , Scream , The Ring , The Grudge , Silent Hill ,  The Exorcist , SAW , Texas Chainsaw Massacre , I Know What You Did Last Summer (I could go on forever ) and it was always so fun to be scared and laugh about it after. I took that love of horror films and began to read similar types of books. Picture it, a remote location, friends having the time of their lives, a killer slowly killing off the characters one, by one.. it was the perfect kind of book to get lost in, and I couldn't get enough! I love horror, suspenseful psychological thriller and whodunit and have been focusing my reading more on these types of books lately. I am ALWAYS on the look out for the next great slasher book. I also want to add that I am just as obsessed...

March18 book for Poison Apple Book Club Instagram: @taleswithnicole #poisonapplebookclub   "Beautiful. Perfect. Dead. In the peaceful seaside town of Cape Bonita, wicked secrets and lies are hidden just beneath the surface. But all it takes is one tragedy for them to be exposed. The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she's next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to a boy from her physics class. The one she's never really noticed before, with the rumored dark past and a brooding stare that cuts right through her. There's something he isn't telling her. But there's something she's not telling him, either. Everyone has secrets, and theirs might get them killed." ( goodreads ) It took me a couple of chapters to get a feel for this book, but once I figured out the vibe I really enjoyed it. Pretty Dead Girls was a predictable book yet did not give away the killer's iden...