psychological suspense

Entertaining thriller; leaned into all the wrong parts. #CBRBingo (3rd Bingo!)

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

September 30, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

I didn’t expect this book to blow my mind, so I had a good time reading it. It was pretty fucked up, in that what-the-hell-is-going-on sort of way. That made me read it super fast, and I was completely absorbed the whole time. But when the reveal finally happened, it just felt really clichéd the way it played out. This book is about Anna Fox, a former child psychologist, now agoraphobic shut-in, who hasn’t left her house in ten months (almost eleven), and who spends her time watching her neighbors and cataloguing their every move through her Nikon camera and […]

9/30/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:119 |

“If I’ve learned one thing today, it’s that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods.”

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) by Tana French

November 3, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well, there goes my last Tana French book. When is the next one??? (Seriously. When. I need it.) Like the previous four Tana French books (all part of the Dublin Murder Squad series), this book follows a detective from the Murder Squad as they investigate a murder, all the while it gets sneakily personal and deep. Also like previous Tana French books, it is secretly obsessed with friendship, how connections between people are formed and broken. This one she breaks the mold a little, though. Instead of following one detective as he/she investigates, all the while doing a deep character study […]

11/3/2015 narfna's CBR7 Review No:164 |

Not my fave Tana French, but still great.

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) by Tana French

October 19, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

“‘I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.’” “Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be […]

10/19/2015 narfna's CBR7 Review No:144 |

Tana French is an evil sorceress. Her words are her magical weapons.

Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French

September 23, 2015 by narfna 6 Comments

It’s not entirely hyperbole when I say that Tana French is magic. When I’m reading her books, more than with any other author I’ve ever read, I feel ensorcelled. Like, I’m being pulled in to the book with ropes that have been tied around my emotions, and it’s entirely not in my control how much I’m allowed to be inside the story. Her books are wrenching. So much humanity in there. Joy and suffering and pain and longing and regret. All at the same time. Plus a murder mystery! I’m almost more impressed with her after reading this book. It was […]

9/23/2015 narfna's CBR7 Review No:131 |

This book will consume you.

The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) by Tana French

August 10, 2015 by narfna 4 Comments

Oh, lordy. This book chewed me up and spat me out. This isn’t going to be one of those reviews where I say a lot. The book was too good, and too overwhelming. I could do it, but it might break me to try. And I’d rather not be broken. So instead, in this review, you will probably get a bunch of nonsense strung together in some stream-of-consciousness excuse for review writing. I DON’T EVEN FEEL BAD ABOUT IT. The Likeness is the second book in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad books. You don’t need to have read the first […]

8/10/2015 narfna's CBR7 Review No:115 |

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