Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

I didn't really enjoy this book one way or another.  It was just a story to read.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Ok this is the second book Gillian Flynn wrote (reading them in backwards order) and oh my god is it ever fantastic.  I still liked Gone Girl better, but this is almost as good.  Gillian is officially on my list of top favorite authors.

So this book is about This little girl (7 at the time) whose family gets murdered.  The mom and her two older sisters.  She manages to escape, hide and when she makes it back to the house finds out almost her whole family is dead.  Her dad was always a deadbeat, in and out of the picture, and the murders are pinned on her brother.  Twenty-five years after the murders she meets this group who get her to start thinking that maybe her brother is innocent.  She's put away any memories from that night and slowly starts to piece things together.  She digs through the past, looking for answers, getting in touch with people who may know something....and I love this book!  Although I must say that some parts of the book made my stomach queasy.  The murders were violent and there is a scene involving animals that I didn't enjoy reading.  Anyway, will have to read her debut novel somehow (our library doesn't have a copy).

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

I didn't really enjoy this book very much.  Glad it was short.  Picked it out from a site online, was expecting something different--more involved in the Holocaust.