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The idea of the book was intriguing, and I do enjoy a post-apocalyptic/end-of-society book without much gratuitous violence. (Station Eleven, anyone?) However, while I was drawn in by the premise of this book, I didn’t think the book went far enough with its story. Due to human negligence and severe weather changes, human society moves … Read More “The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes” »
While not a fast-paced, in-your-face thriller, this was a satisfying suspense novel set in the Appalachian Mountains. Cooper and his daughter Finch live in isolation at a remote, off-the-grid cabin, and Jake, Cooper’s friend, and Scotland, a hermit living nearby, are the only people who know they are there, which is the way Cooper wants … Read More “These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant” »
This is a very dark thriller that made me want to keep turning the page throughout to find out what happens next while still cringing that I didn’t really want to know what was coming because it was so dark. The opening of the book with the narration from the voices of the dead, the … Read More “Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens” »
For the second time, I’ve liked the premise of this author’s book more than I enjoyed the book itself, and especially the ultimate conclusion. I like the writing itself and I want to find out what happens just because I always want to find out what happens, but it felt like the big twists in … Read More “The Maidens by Alex Michaelides” »
This my first experience reading anything by Claire Keegan, but I was very impressed. Sometimes the quietist book can send the biggest message, and this is a clear (deserved) condemnation of the Catholic church in Ireland. Set in a small village in Ireland just before Christmas in the mid-1980s, when many people are out of … Read More “Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan” »