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Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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It’s been a year since I’ve completed a book (not including ones I’ve read with my 7-year old). An embarassingly adult book-free year. I’ve started a few, but either wasn’t interested enough to finish them (I’m looking at you Crazy Rich Asians), or, really, just not interested enough to start any new ones either. But I’m happy to announce my dry spell is over and Lock Every Door is the book to quench my thirst. This is the third book by Author Riley Sager, which […]

The Silent Patient is a good book but I didn’t like it

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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This is a hard book for me to rate because it was fascinating and compelling but I didn’t like it.  Alicia Berenson hasn’t spoken since she murdered her husband six years earlier. To outsiders, they seemed to have a perfect marriage. She was a beautiful, successful painter, and he was a handsome, famous photographer. They were madly in love. So why did she shoot him in the face 5 times?  Theo Faber has recently joined the Grove as its new psychotherapist. Part of why he […]

The Last Time I Lied is a slow burn that sticks with you

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager wasn’t exactly what I expected. This was my first Riley Sager book but I doubt it’ll be my last. In my head, it would be more like Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places – a woman researching a past crime, not sure who to trust and maybe trusting the wrong people, ending with a big climax. I guess it was sort of that, but in a way it was darker. Darker than your brother murdering your whole family as […]

Reading isn’t always a good idea while wearing eyeliner

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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When she was 15, Laurel Mack’s beautiful daughter (and favourite child) Ellie left the house to go to the library and never returned. Written off as a runaway by the police, in the years since Laurel has lost what was left of her family – divorcing her husband as she couldn’t stand how he was able to get on with things, and withdrawing emotionally from her surviving son and daughter due to her inability to deal with her own grief. Getting through her days by […]

If You Mixed The Andromeda Strain and Pacific Rim, You’d Get This

Cold Storage by David Koepp

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It took me a while to get this whole reading thing going again, and I figured what would finally jumpstart it would be a good old goofy disease thriller. Folks, I was not wrong. According to my e-reader’s stats, it took me a little over five hours to finish this book, and that seems about right. The plot starts out very similar to Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain: Some kind of organism has hitched a ride back to earth after getting mutated in space and has […]



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