Cannonball Read 18

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Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden

Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden

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Not much to say here. I think McFadden was going for Serial Mom (seriously great dark comedy starring Kathleen Turner) and then it just turned into a mess of a book that made zero sense. I think she also should have kept the focus on the married couple [Debbie and Cooper] and adding in another character’s point of view added nothing. I just thought by the time I got to the halfway point the book had firmly gone off the rails. We also get some sort of […]

Kind of like Jane Eyre but not really

The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

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I needed a book to listen to for my commute, and I needed it immediately. Somehow, The Wife Upstairs (2020) by Freida McFadden grabbed my eye when I searched available audio books at my library. I was not familiar with McFadden, but she has written a large number of successful thrillers, and she seems to have quite a following. Sylvia Robinson is not in a good place in her life when the book begins. She has just lost her job after being unfairly accused of stealing, she […]

One by One by Fredia McFadden

One by One by Freida McFadden

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“One by One” follows a married mother of two, Claire, going off to the woods with her husband, his best friend from college, that man’s wife, and her best friend Lindsay, and her new boyfriend. Claire is looking forward to this trip because she plans on finally telling her husband that she wants a divorce. When the group of six gets stuck in the woods on their way to the inn they were going to stay at and then one of their members dies, Claire […]

Review of the Alibis Collection

Death Row by Freida McFadden

The Ex-Wives Club by Sally Hepworth

False Note by David Lagercrantz

The Skydivers by Chris Bohjailian

Good Neighbors by Chad Zunker

Small Things by Wanda M. Morris

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4 stars for this one. I thought the first story in the “Alibis Collection” was really strong and honestly the best out of the bunch. I thought that McFadden actually stretched herself in this one in a good way. I didn’t see the twists coming and loved how she tied things up her. “Death Row” follows a woman named Talia Kemper has been on death row for years after being convicted of the murder of her husband. We find Talia remembering things before she was […]

Milly knows your secrets, but she has some of her own

(The Housemaid #1) The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

(The Housemaid #2) The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden

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I read both of these books as actual real physical books, which for me is a big deal. I was over my aunt’s house and she was like “you have to read this book” about the first one, but I only had the weekend to read it, because she borrowed it from the woman she babysits for (and she’s crazy – my aunt). So I hit my timeline because I had a timeline, but also because the book was good! Then, mom of the kids […]

To continue the summer of Freida…

The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

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Ok this summer of Freida story was a little hit or miss. I liked a bunch of it, but there were times where it was a little unbelievable. Our main character is Nora Davis, who is a surgeon. She seems like a good person, but she’s harboring a dark secret. For years when she was a little girl, her dad was murdering women in the basement of their home. Nora spends her life mostly alone and actively rebuffs attention from people who want to change […]



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