Book Reviews

  • Adrift By: Will Dean

    Adrift By: Will Dean

    Coming to you in February – a domestic thriller. Dive into the brain of a crazed writer. An abused writer. And a kid just trying to make it. A family lives on an isolated canal boat with their fourteen-year-old son. Parents are aspiring writers and Samson, the son, attempts fitting in. With their increasing isolation,

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  • Still Life By: Louise Penny

    Still Life By: Louise Penny

    The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal.  But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere

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  • The Storm By: Rachel Hawkins

    St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama is famous for three the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local girl infamously accused of the murder of her lover, political scion Landon Fitzroy, during Hurricane Marie in 1984. When Geneva Corliss,

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  • The Writers’ Retreat By: Samantha Vérant

    A crazy, ‘cozy-thriller’ read … I’m all in for this writers writing about writing trend! Liv gets an opportunity to attend an exclusive writers retreat. Liv is quickly reunited with her past. She needs to face what happened. But with a killer loose, is it worth it? WHAT A RIDE. The Writer’s Retreat may get

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  • Last Seen J.T. Ellison

    Last Seen J.T. Ellison

    A psychological thriller as Halley searches for her sister that she always thought was dead. Turns out she didn’t die in a car accident when she was six along with their mom. Turns out her last name isn’t even her real last name … Why did her dad hide this from her for so long

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  • We Fell Apart By: E. Lockhart

    A continuation into the world of  We Were Liars from E. Lockhart. Follow Matilda as she accepts the invitation from her long lost father, who also happens to be an extremely famous painter. Luckily, the show We Were Liars came out to make this story a bit more relevant. I did read the book We

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  • The Ghostwriter By: Julie Clark

    Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her life trying to distance herself from the fact that her father is the ‘alleged’ murderer of his two siblings. She’s hid from the world and her father for years. Unfortunate circumstances brings her head to head with not only her father, but what really happened in 1975. I just

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  • One of Us By: Elizabeth Day

    A twisty, elite, family drama story that you could finish in one sitting … Martin and Ben used to be friends. The past was the past until Martin receives an invite to Ben’s sister’s funeral. Martin can’t resist the chance to exact his revenge on Ben and the entire Fitzmaurice clan. Where privilege meets drama

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  • The Writer By: Valerie Keogh

    Cara Jenkins needs to write her much anticipated 30th novel. Problem is, she doesn’t have any idea of what to write. Which isn’t normal for her. As if by fate … ‘things’ start happening. She’s never written a book about her real life, but once she puts it down on paper she can’t stop. I

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  • Butcher & Blackbird By: Brynne Weaver

    The synopsis of this book describes it as the TikTok viral novel of friends to lovers, romantic, dark comedy. I would put this story in a young adult category right next to Twilight. Listen, could I ever read Twilight again? Probably not. Yet, it’s a story that I remember fondly. I wouldn’t recommend Twilight to

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