Lorelei's Book Reviews

Are you ready to change your relationship with money for the better? Written by a millennial woman … Read more She's On The Money: Take Charge of Your Financial Future

"Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with a little bit of Riverdale mixed i… Read more People Like Us - Dana Male

I feel right bad for of givin it only two stars, but three for sure would seem an outright benast… Read more The Ozark Trilogy

Almost all of the books I read come from a second-hand bookstore or my mother. This particular book… Read more Second Nature

Sarah's Key , by Tatiana de Rosnay, was a recommendation from my mother. My mother is a sucker … Read more Sarah's Key

I bought this book, The Chemistry Between Us , by Larry Young and Brian Alexander, because I've… Read more The Chemistry Between Us

Sleep has only become a problem for me in the past few years. Prior to turning 40, I seem to rememb… Read more Dreamland

For a non-religious person, I seem to read a lot of religious books. I suppose this curiosity is du… Read more Proof of Heaven

I know this book review is 11 years overdue, but it's better late than never. Of course the rea… Read more Life of Pi

This book was sitting on my mother's bedside table when we were at my parents' house for Th… Read more Midwives

I have read a lot of books over the past three years, but most of them were for school so you would… Read more Three years' pause

As a rule, I avoid popular fiction. As another rule, though, I love teen fiction. However, when som… Read more Twilight

I read a lot of books, but I can't write about a book I've read unless it moved me in some … Read more If You Want to Write

The Writing Diet , by Julia Cameron, is a crock of crap. "When you get hungry, write about it … Read more The Writing Diet

Rollback , by Robert J. Sawyer, is a SciFi book and SciFi books are always good ( Ender's Game … Read more Rollback

I've read a lot of bad books in my time. With such a huge appetite for reading, I have no doubt… Read more The Pure Land

The Colony , by John Tayman, is about the Hawaiian leprosy patients (and many non-leprosy victims) … Read more The Colony

I bought this book because I had heard the movie was gory and I was thinking I could handle the gor… Read more I am Legend

I found this book at my favorite local used bookstore, Edward McKay's in North Raleigh. Books I… Read more The Butterfly Hunter