Book Reviews & Bookish Things
Review: Pretty Dead Things
Pretty Dead Things by Liv Lowry is a gothic psychological thriller set in a decaying Everglades estate that pulled me into a hypnotic reading state and did not let me go until long after the last page. Repressed memories, a mother who is both victim and monster, sisters shaped by the same damaging upbringing, and…
Book Review & Giveaway : The Bush Tea Murder
Bush Tea Murder by Ashley Ruth M Bernier is a cozy Caribbean mystery that does something genuinely creative with structure, weaving a series of layered mini mysteries through a richly cultural Saint Thomas setting before bringing them all together. The cover is as warm and inviting as the book itself.
Review: Rumors, Romance, and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green
Rumours, Romance and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green is my cozy come home read between all the dark and intense books on my TBR. Warm, sweet, and feel-good with a quiet mystery underneath the surface and a surprisingly real theme about empathy and boundaries running through the whole story. Here is my full review.
Review: One Of Them Is Lying, CL Swatman
One of Them Is Lying by CL Swatman is a clever, layered thriller about a stormy weekend, a dead body, and a house full of people with secrets they will do anything to protect. The first half asks for your patience. The second half makes every page worth it. Here is my full review.
Review: The Housewife by Valerie Keogh
The Housewife by Valerie Keogh is a psychological domestic suspense thriller built around one of the most unsettling questions a book can ask. How do you trust your gut when you are not sure your gut is sane? I went in expecting a good thriller and came out with a reading experience that genuinely got…
Back Where We Belong, Jo Bartlett
Back Where We Belong by Jo Bartlett is women’s fiction about two sisters, fifteen years of silence, and whether some bonds are too strong to stay broken. I came to this one as a Jo Bartlett fan trying her women’s fiction for the first time and she absolutely delivered. Warm, emotionally honest, and full of…
Book Review & Giveaway : Daughter of Mine, Angie Stanton
Daughter of Mine by Angie Stanton is domestic suspense that lives entirely in the complicated gray space between right and wrong and it completely wrecked me. Two mothers, one child, and sixteen years of buried secrets that detonate in a single devastating moment. I went in with very clear moral lines. I did not come…
Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte ~ Review
Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte is a dark, atmospheric, and completely addicting gothic paranormal read with a protagonist I fell for immediately and a brooding love interest I wanted to fix from the moment he appeared. The writing is immersive, the tension is delicious, and the underworld setting is everything. I really liked this one…
Caio by LS Delorme ~ Review
Caio by LS Delorme has genuinely good bones. The writing is strong, the mystery hooked me, and the paranormal world has real potential. But there are some significant content choices in this book that I need to talk about honestly, and I think you deserve to know about them before you pick it up. Here…
Book Review & Giveaway : Everyone Is Perfect Here, Jane Haseldine
A psychological domestic thriller where nobody is who they seem and the tension never lets up. Everyone Is Perfect Here by Jane Haseldine pulled me in from the first chapter and kept me guessing until the very last page. Multiple unreliable narrators, characters I was deeply invested in, and a thematic layer about insecurity and…
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