I’m just going to say it up here: Keep reading all the way to the end. That’s what makes the whole book. Seriously, keep reading. Iris and Summer are identical twins on the outside, but inside — where it counts — they are actually mirror images of each other, both in the placement of their organs and in who they are. One is the “perfect” twin, while the other is severely flawed. When Summer needs … Read More “The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle” »
Category: Thriller
I really wanted to like this one a lot more than I did. I loved the premise, but unfortunately, for me, it just didn’t live up to the promise. Two weeks before the wedding, Amy’s fiancé Matt doesn’t return home after a dinner with a client. She calls the police to report him missing, but there is no sign of him. Then, Matt is also reported missing by a second woman, Fiona, who tells the … Read More “The Vow by Debbie Howells” »
I’m usually late to the party on thriller series, so it was nice starting a series from the beginning right when it’s being published. While I figured out the responsible party as soon as this character was introduced, it was still a suspenseful crime thriller, which answered the main whodunit for this book but left you hanging for the bigger crime. Olivia Rockwell, a criminal psychologist, who is still trying to come to terms with … Read More “Watch Her Vanish by Ellery A. Kane” »
In the 1950s, Sonia, Katie, Roberta, and CiCi are 15-years-old roommates at an all-girls boarding school, Idlewild, which has a poor reputation and it’s very own home-grown ghost, Mary Hand. After a trip to visit her elderly and distant relatives, Sonia — a Holocaust survivor — never returns, and her best friends fear the worst. In 2014, Fiona, a journalist, is writing a story about the mysterious benefactor who is planning on fixing and reopening … Read More “The Broken Girls by Simone St. James” »
This timely thriller won’t just have you scared for the characters, but for our society, as well. Sydney Green returns to live with her mother in their historically Black neighborhood in Brooklyn. However, the neighborhood is undergoing rapid gentrification, and several of their life-long friends and neighbors have suddenly disappeared and wealthy white people are taking their places. Sydney is asking a lot of questions and draws dangerous attention to herself as she struggles to … Read More “When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole” »