Release Day! A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives #AThousandDoors #NetGalley

Happy Release Day!!

Congratulations J.T Ellison 
& all of the other amazing authors 
on the release today of
A Thousand Doors!

A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives
by J.T. Ellison,  Kimberly Belle, Laura Benedict, A.F. Brady, Paige Crutcher, Rebecca Drake, Heather Gudenkauf, Patti Callahan Henry, Joy Jordan-Lake, Alisha Klapheke, Kerry Lonsdale, Ariel Lawhon, Catherine McKenzie, Kate Moretti, Lisa Patton, Kaira Rouda
Print and e-book, 404 pages
Published November 5th 2018 by Two Tales Press

The day Mia Jensen died, she finally got to live.

WHAT IF…

We’ve all played the “what if” game. For Mia Jensen, “what if” is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge is going to cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life.

I absolutely loved A Thousand Doors! What an intriguing concept for an anthology. You can read my thoughts here. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Seriously, you will want to read this book! And congrats to all the creative authors who worked on this amazing anthology. 

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A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives ~ My Thoughts #AThousandDoors #NetGalley

A Thousand Doors

A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives
by J.T. Ellison,  Kimberly Belle, Laura Benedict, A.F. Brady, Paige Crutcher, Rebecca Drake, Heather Gudenkauf, Patti Callahan Henry, Joy Jordan-Lake, Alisha Klapheke, Kerry Lonsdale, Ariel Lawhon, Catherine McKenzie, Kate Moretti, Lisa Patton, Kaira Rouda
Print and e-book, 404 pages
Expected publication: November 5th 2018 by Two Tales Press

The day Mia Jensen died, she finally got to live.

WHAT IF…

We’ve all played the “what if” game. For Mia Jensen, “what if” is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge is going to cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life.

My thoughts about A Thousand Doors ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First line—"The day Mia Jensen died dawned cold and harsh under a brittle sun that barely warmed the streets." 

Wow! I don't know if I've ever read a book like this one before. What an interesting premise—Mia dies at the beginning of the book, and as she is laying there dying, she has flashes of what her life could have been like if she'd made different choices. This book is so fascinating because it's each author's take on the direction that Mia's life could have taken, if only she'd made different decisions in her life.

Each chapter, written by a different author, gives their spin on how Mia might have possibly have lived her life. And each chapter is as varied as the individual author's storytelling style. Some of these authors I've read before and some of them were new to me. I liked how each story gave me a small taste of the author's work. That's what I love about anthologies, they allow me to visit some old favorites while also discovering some new authors. 

A Thousand Doors is such an interesting variety of stories and they are all so good and so different. J.T. Ellison, one of the authors and the editor, starts and ends the stories and ties the whole book up in a very satisfying way. 

"Regrets. Joys, Mistakes. So many lives to lead, to have led. So many lives to lose, and so many to gain."

I received A Thousand Doors from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. 

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Release Day! No One Knows by J.T. Ellison and My Thoughts

Happy Release Day!

No One Knows

No One Knows by J.T. Ellison
Print and e-book, 368 pages
Published: March 22nd 2016 by Gallery Books

In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train and The Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel—and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.

The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?

In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.

My thoughts about No One Knows ~~

First line—"One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five days after Josh Hamilton went missing, the State Of Tennessee declared him legally dead."

No One Knows is definitely a page turner with twists and turns that left me wanting more. Aubrey has been mourning her husband since he disappeared five years ago. She knows he wouldn't just up and leave her and the wonderful life that they had together. And because of that fact, she knows something terrible must have happened to him.

And then she starts to hear things about her husband, things she can't believe. Bad things start happening to her and suddenly her life is in danger. After all this time, did she really know her husband at all? And is Aubrey really the women we think she is? It's hard to tell who and what is real anymore.

I thoroughly enjoyed No One Knows and loved being engrossed in the twisted and dangerous plot, and the ending I did not see coming.

I received a copy of No One Knows from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

About the author

New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison writes dark psychological thrillers starring Nashville Homicide Lt. Taylor Jackson and medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens, and pens the Nicholas Drummond series with #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. Cohost of the premier literary television show, A Word on Words , Ellison lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens.

Visit JTEllison.com for more insight into her wicked imagination, or follow her on Facebook and Twitter @thrillerchick.

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