Category: thriller
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Book Review: Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Truthfully, the cover of this book had me thinking this was going to be some kind of beach-read thriller (is there such a thing?). I wasn’t sure what to expect but I’m almost always willing to give a thriller a try. I’m glad my first impression of the book was wrong!…
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Book Review: The Institution by Helen Fields
I was instantly taken in by the setting. This is probably one of the most perfect locations I’ve read in a thriller. I only wish I had been as taken in by the story and its presentation…
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Book Review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
After reading Babel a while back, I had assumed Yellowface would follow a similar style. Though it hadn’t been a book I loved, I liked the writing enough to give this one a go when it was selected for a group read. I was so excited when I realized this book is more of a thriller…
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Book Review: The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
This book hadn’t been on my radar at all but I was in the mood for a short Christmas read and this one sounded intriguing…
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Book Review: Ask Not! by Tom Avitabile
My interest in the assassination of John F. Kennedy might make me biased, but I think most people would agree that there is not a better situation suited for a thriller. I’ve read one other novel/thriller that involves this moment in history, however, it ended up being a relatively small portion of the book. I…
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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…