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I’m glad I don’t have kids because this book would have given me nightmares

The Whisper Man by Alex North

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Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, arrive home one day to find Tom’s wife dead at the bottom of the stairs. Tom is trying his best to be a good father, but he feels like it doesn’t come naturally to him, and he and Jake don’t have the connection Jake had with his mother. After months of Jake refusing to go up and down the stairs, Tom buys a new house in the nearby village of Featherbank.  But moving isn’t the easy solution they […]

A good book but not what I expected or wanted

Final Girls by Riley Sager

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Quinn Carpenter is the only survivor of the Pine Cottage massacre. She has no memory of the massacre, but she knows a knife-wielding maniac murdered her closest friends and stabbed her three times. She only survived because she ran into a police officer while the killer was chasing her.  Shortly after the incident, another Final Girl, Lisa, reached out to Quinn to teach her how to handle the aftermath. Lisa wanted her and Quinn to meet Sam, another Final Girl. She thought they could support […]

“Death was for-the other people.”

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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All I could think about while reading this book was the Amy Cooper of the world. Those “nice” liberal folks, who are willing to destroy (and potentially kill) another human, for something as slight as getting asked to leash their dog in a place that requires it.  I kept thinking about the banality of it all. The story, in case you are not familiar with the plot and the numerous adaptation of it, centers around ten individuals who are invited by the mysterious Mr. Ulick […]

A great read so long as you suspend disbelief

Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

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There are different kinds of books. Good books, terrible books, guilty pleasures, etc. I don’t really care if a book is good or bad so long as I enjoy it. This book was a wild ride and I loved every minute of it, but I can’t call it a good book because the reveal was such a cliche.  Finn and Layla have a passionate, tempestuous relationship. While on vacation, they get in an argument and Layla disappears. Finn is the prime suspect, but with no […]

Great mystery and setting hampered by repetition

In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

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I’ve been in a bit of a book rut lately. I had such high hopes for the past few novels I’ve read, but they were all disappointing. I needed something reliable to give me a win.  A few months ago, I ran across Loreth Anne White’s In the Dark. I devoured the fast-paced thriller in a couple of days, and it left me eager to read more of her work. In the Barren Ground has rave reviews on Goodreads, so I thought it might be […]



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