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> Genre: Suspense

My first Grady Hendrix book, won’t be my last!

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

May 26, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 13/30 I was discombobulated for most of listening to this book. But I was interested the whole way through, and nothing about it felt lazy or half-done, like a certain other author’s work did for me. I should probably state up front that I am not at all a fan of slasher movies. In fact, I quite dislike them in general because I find them incredibly stressful and not cathartic in any way (although I have seen […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: Adrienne King, audiobooks, grady hendrix, horror, narfna, slashers, Suspense, the final girl support group, thrillers

narfna's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Suspense · Tags: Adrienne King, audiobooks, grady hendrix, horror, narfna, slashers, Suspense, the final girl support group, thrillers ·
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Did not expect my reaction to this one.

Defending Jacob by William Landay

May 26, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 10/30 I have traditionally really been into most legal thrillers I’ve read. I love all the procedural stuff, and I love watching characters be good at a job I myself would be absolutely abysmal at. There’s also a lot of room for twists and turns, and for all that hard-hitting thematic junk as well. They’re usually fast reads for me. Also, I love a good murder mystery. And this had all of that! In addition to an intriguingly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: defending jacob, legal thriller, mystery, narfna, thriller, William Landay

narfna's CBR14 Review No:78 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: defending jacob, legal thriller, mystery, narfna, thriller, William Landay ·
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Longing for the sound of an electric guitar

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

May 26, 2022 by esme Leave a Comment

I finally put this on my reading list after one of the CBR13 happy hours. Someone mentioned that Emily St. John Mandel had a new book coming out that they were looking forward to, and somehow I pulled that thread and made my way back to Station Eleven. I had been aware of it before that conversation, yet the blurb had never struck my fancy, likely because I have a very complicated relationship with dystopian fiction. Frankly, and as has been noted on this site […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health

esme's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health ·
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Sweetpea

Slightly uncomfortable thriller, and not in a good way

Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse

May 25, 2022 by postcardsandbooks 5 Comments

As a thriller, I guess this was fine. Rhiannon is a serial killer who deliberately puts herself in situations where she might get assaulted so she can use it as an excuse for murder. While the first couple of chapters were fast-paced and very thrilling, it just didn’t hold up throughout the book. I didn’t connect to any characters, so none of it felt like it mattered. A few of the things that happened such as her kidnapping of her school friend felt a little loose […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: C.J. Skuse

postcardsandbooks's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: C.J. Skuse ·
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Mind Games

Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild

May 22, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

It’s well known that I’m not much of a fan of serial killer fiction. Everyone’s trying (and failing) to ripoff Hannibal Lecter, making their killers even more diabolical than their fictional predecessors. Serial killers are boring. I’m more interested in the “why” of people killing. What makes a human being take another human being’s life? Sascha Rothschild’s confidently written debut work attempts to answer that question through the eyes of a serial killer who swears she isn’t one. It’s difficult to create a legit complex main character […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Blood Sugar, Miami, Sascha Rothchild, serial killers, Yale

Jake's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Blood Sugar, Miami, Sascha Rothchild, serial killers, Yale ·
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A Master of Color and Crime

Killer Come Back to Me by Ray Bradbury

May 22, 2022 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Ray Bradbury can do it all: science fiction, horror, crime, fantasy, mystery. One of his most famous books is Fahrenheit 451, but he’s written tons of short stories. The collection Killer Come Back to Me is a compilation of Bradbury’s crime stories. Bradbury’s way with language makes common things new again. From one story: “Mr. Willis tonked a laugh out like cleaning your pipe on a flat stone”; “Peter [he shouted], show him, but it was all underwater. Blood pounded around on big red boots.” […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: Ray Bradbury

esmemoria's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: Ray Bradbury ·
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  • esmemoria on What Else Would You Look With?I wonder if the audio brings out the best in the novel. The last part of the book was pretty great, but I had so...
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