Category: thriller
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Book Review: No One Saw It Coming by Susan Lewis
Complicated family dynamics, secrets, murder, twists, mental health… Intriguing stuff here!…
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Book Review: Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
I look forward to Alice Feeney’s books every year. After being blown away by Daisy Darker last year, I’ve spent most of 2023 counting the months until I could read Good Bad Girl. Though the book overall had a much different tone than what I’ve become accustomed to with this author, I still loved it…
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Top 5: Favorite reads of 2023 (so far)
It’s a bit past the official halfway mark of the year but it’s only just occurred to me to share some of my favorite reads of the year so far…
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Book Review: Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
It’s been a few months since I’ve read a psychological thriller and I can’t think of a better one to have come back to the genre. With quiet twists and extraordinarily flawed yet lovable characters, I was hooked…
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Book Review: Fortunes of War by Gordon Zuckerman
I’ve read a few espionage novels and though it’s not my go-to genre, the descriptions always seem to draw me in. Fortunes of War stood out in particular in this instance as I’m always looking for a new perspective on the times surrounding World War II…
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Book Review: Paper Targets by Steve S. Saroff
I love a good art angle in a book be it fiction or nonfiction. Pair it with a mystery and you don’t need to tell me much more to convince me to pick it up…
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Book Review: Breathless by Amy McCulloch
I had high hopes for this one given the setting. Any sort of mountain climbing expedition promises all sorts of disasters. Adding in the elements of a thriller should only add to the intrigue. Unfortunately, I didn’t find this to be the case with this book…
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Book Review: All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
For the past year, Isabelle Drake hasn’t had a good night’s sleep. Really, she’s lucky when she manages to get an hour or two. It started when her son, Mason, was taken and has yet to be found. She doesn’t care what measures she has to go to find the culprit be it attending true…
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Book Review: Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Though I wouldn’t personally call this much of a thriller, Things We Do in the Dark did not disappoint…
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Book Review: Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka
If you have knowledge of Japanese culture and literature, this is probably an enjoyable book. Unfortunately, I am not all too familiar with these things and found myself lost throughout most of the story…