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I am an English teacher from the Low Countries. Like everyone else I aspire to one day write a Booker Prize Winner, but until then I contend my self with writing bitchy reviews.

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Attack of the Mombot

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

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On a sunny eve, somewhere in the suburbs of Wichita, Gina Royal comes home with her two young children to find a car embedded into her house. But that’s not the biggest problem. The real problem is that the car has destroyed the garage wall, and when the cops take Gina into the garage – her husband’s hobby domain – she finds a dead woman suspended from the roof of the garage. The woman has been tortured to death. The culprit? Gina’s loving husband Melvin, […]

Good Writin’, Bad Thrillin’

Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

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Clara Solberg’s infant son is only four days old when the police come to her door to tell her that her husband Nick and her daughter Maisie have in a serious car accident. Maisie is unharmed but Nick soon dies, leaving Clara alone with two young children and no income. To make matters worse, Maisie keeps having nightmares about being chased off the road by a ‘bad man’. Clara initially chalks it up to trauma and Maisie being a four year old, but soon other […]

Spellbinding

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

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After a long day at work, university lecturer Stefan de Graaf returns to his home in the sleepy Dutch town of Beek, kisses his wife and sits down at the kitchen table. The wife tells him Grandma K has come to visit. They laugh and talk about their day. In a corner of the living room stands a silent woman, dressed in rags and chains, smelling of decay. Her eyes and mouth have been sewn shut. The wife has hung a dish towel over the […]

Harleigh and Calliope

False Witness by Karin Slaughter

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Attorney Leigh Collier is attending a recital at her daughter’s fancy private school when she’s called in by her boss. Andrew Tennant, a wealthy client’s son, stands accuse of aggravated sexual assault and has specifically requested Leigh defend him. It takes Leigh a while, but then she recognises Andrew as the little boy she used to babysit – the little boy whose father she and her sister murdered twenty years earlier. Andrew makes no qualms about letting Leigh know that he knows what she did, […]

I Am Ambivalent, Hear Me Roar

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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The hardest reviews are not the ones about good books, or about bad ones (in fact, writing reviews about bad books is easy and so much fun it’s almost worth reading a bad book for. Almost). The hardest ones to write are the ones about books that were just okay. The Woman in Cabin 10 is one of those books. It’s bubblegum. It’s popcorn. It’s cheese, but not the good kind, no, the average kind from the supermarket that’s good as sandwich filling but not […]



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