Diane Chamberlain is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, and this book is the second one I read by her this year that has made it into my top list for 2021. What I like about her books is that she successfully fictionalizes serious events in recent history in a way that does not come across as opportunistic but rather as respectful to the memories of the real people affected. In 1965, white teenager … Read More “The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain” »
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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 lost, and the forgotten really set the scene for the whole book and made sure that the reader didn’t forget … Read More “Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens” »
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 it. For the last eight years, Jake has brought Cooper and Finch much needed supplies once a year, but this … Read More “These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant” »
Stephen Aston is in the process of divorcing his first wife – after decades of marriage – in order to marry a much younger one. Not an uncommon plot, necessarily, but here, his current wife is living in a nursing home for people with dementia. Stephen’s two adult daughters—with their own deeply-repressed issues—not only can’t figure out why he is rushing to the altar with someone their age, but also don’t understand why their mother … Read More “The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth” »
I’ve been reading books by Sandra Dallas since The Persian Pickle Club, and I always enjoy her style of writing. This one was a bit harder of a read for me – I don’t know if it was just that I am burnt out living through our own modern-day pandemic or if my expectations were just too high. However, while this one wasn’t necessarily one of my favorites ever by this author, I still really … Read More “Little Souls by Sandra Dallas” »