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An interesting take on the dystopian genre

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

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A reality TV show launches 12 contestants into the woods, fending for their own survival and the chance to win a huge prize. The last person able to survive alone wins the money and bragging rights. Cut off from the rest off the world, they are left to their own devices to survive in the wilderness and win the competition. The producers of the show give nicknames to each contestant; our protagonist is Zoo. She’s plucky and bookish, and has a hard time adjusting to […]

Gentrification Meets Get Out in Brooklyn

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

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I couldn’t put down this book after starting it. I burned through it in one and a half days, because sleep,  it it was engaging all the way through and the ending was insane. Loved the story, as it’s something that resonates with me (gentrification in NYC has gotten so bad and so many people have been displaced/ out priced because of it). I also loved the slight sci-fi elements of this book, a turn I was not expecting as it starts out as a […]

An odd man, his angry daughter, and a religious cat walk into a bar…

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

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I originally saw this book recommended on r/horrorlit a couple of months ago, when I was trying to branch out into different genres.  I’m not sure I’d really classify this as horror – psychological fiction might be more apt. It’s better to go into this book with as little information on the plot as possible, so I’ll do my best to keep this review spoiler-free. The basic plot set up: Years ago, a little girl went missing. Her sister is looking for the person responsible, […]

Priouette

The Turnout by Megan Abbott

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Free. I checked this book out from my library.  Megan Abbott just owns. In a time when everyone is desperate to write a female-centric thriller in the mold of Gone Girl, Abbott has done her own thing: taking female-centric activities like cheerleading, gymnastics, and femme-focused medicine, and excavating the hell out of all subtext to examine what the world does to women, especially young women. Here she turns her eye to ballet and produces something that continues to match her incredibly high […]

Like A Wes Anderson Psychological Thriller in Japan

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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I eagerly picked up Earthlings when I heard it was released. I loved Sayaka Murata’s English language debut, Convenience Store Woman, and was excited to see what the latest translation of her work had to offer. She has a unique and compelling style of prose, and a way of explaining the pressures of Japanese society that is sympathetic to her weird outsiders and totally rational in a slightly twisted way. The cover and back of Earthlings is full of praise for Convenience Store Woman, raving […]

What does the dark dark wood got to do with it?

In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

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It’s one of those books where the “mysterious events of the past” are mysterious only because the narrator isn’t telling you about it. Leonora, 26 years old is a crime author and lives a solitary and lonely life.  Then, she receives an email from a woman she does not know, inviting her to a “hen party” for a friend she has not spoken to for a long time.  But she goes.  This hen party is for the wedding of Leonora’s childhood friend Clare.  A wedding […]



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