This was a suspenseful, quick read, where you’re not sure who you can trust and even the narrator doesn’t seem reliable. Anna Sanchez is living what she would describe as her dream life — she has a husband who she loves madly and is an incredibly successful artist, two beautiful children, and a fulfilling career as an associate math professor. She loves cooking and cleaning, advising her doctoral students — especially Alex, the newest genius … Read More “Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli” »
Publisher: Bookouture
Overall, I enjoyed The Night Away, although there were a lot of very obvious red herrings and the end came out of nowhere. The book opens with a chapter from the point of view of someone who is obviously stalking the main character, which is a really creepy (in a good way) opening. Amber and her husband “Gorgeous” George have been together since high school and have a young infant, Mabel. Amber–who has always been … Read More “The Night Away by Jess Ryder” »
The Girl Who Never Came Home really reads more like YA than literary fiction and the tagline of it being a “gripping page turner’ might have been a bit of an oversell, but the overall story was good. Sixteen-year-old Zoe (daughter of Lydia and baby sister to Jessie) goes away for a weekend at school camp and disappears sometime between lights out and breakfast. It doesn’t take very long for searchers to discover her body. … Read More “The Girl Who Never Came Home by Nicole Trope” »
My Sister’s Husband was an enjoyable thriller, but you really have to suspend your disbelief for most of the story to work and especially for the ending. Brooke and Freya are sisters, but Freya is exceedingly jealous of her older sister. Their relationship mirrors the one that their Aunt Alice had with their own mother. who died in a freak accident (along with their father) while they were both babies. They also have a cousin … Read More “My Sister’s Husband by Nicola Marsh” »
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” »