Jencey's Writer's Corner

Happy New Year!  My apologies for being a little behind this month!  I thought that I would share the top novels at Writer’s Corner in 2016. Once again these novels may or may not have been published in the previous year. Drum roll please…The novels are:  The first novel is Juliet by Anne Fortier Julie and Janice Jacobs are going home to deal with the death of their Aunt Rose. The will is read and Janice gets the house and everything in it. Julie gets a key with a plane ticket to go to Italy. Her mission is to find out what her mother wanted her to know about the past and a possible treasure. Julie Jacobs becomes Giulietta Tolemeis which is her given name. Part of her search is to search for Romeo and all the people that are connected to the story. Julie picks up a box that includes a story about the real Romeo and Juliet. What was there story? How can the current Romeo and Juliet break the curse placed on the houses of Tolemeis and Salimbeni? Will there be a ha...

Gone Girl opens on the day of Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary, the very day wife Amy goes missing. The story begins with a light and breezy journal entry from Amy’s diary, in which she talks about “meeting a boy.” What follows is Nick’s first person narrative, a darker, more realistic look at the couple. The reader soon learns that Nick and Amy have both lost their jobs and were forced to head back to Nick’s hometown in Missouri to take care of his sick mother. Amy, who grew up in a wealthy home, is openly bitter about the move and hates leaving the glamour of New York behind. She is unable to forgive Nick for their misfortune and carries that regret and resentment to their new home. It is then when Nick begins to cheat on Amy with a much younger girl. Amy’s journal entries soon start to show a different side of Nick: one that is increasingly abusive and frightening. In a plot twist in the second part of Gone Girl , however, the reader discovers that Amy knew t...