In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
What first drew me to this book was its cool title and the fact there wasn’t a knife on the front cover. That bothered me. A Lot. So of course? I had to read this book. Then I read a synopsis of the book and I really had to read it…because it seemed to be right up my alley. Let me tell you about it and you can decide if it’s also for you! Lots of people attend college reunions for various reasons–to reconnect, to […]
Mr Einstein's Secretary by Matthew Reilly
Fifteen years, I’ve been with Mr Girlwhogotoverit, and still, he comes home with books for me that “sound like something [I’ll] like.” He’s never been right, but I appreciate the attempt to meet me where I live. This is one for Mum and Nan, the literary equivalent of the sort of wine my family calls a “quaffer” – something that you can get through at pace, but which leaves no lasting impression. Pros: Well paced Seamlessly inserts main characters into historical settings Does exactly what […]
The Stand by Stephen King
Almost no event in fiction grabs me more than the collapse of society. Something about how people live when the structures of our society collapse always pulls me in. Seeing the things characters view as important or unimportant after all of the comforts of every day life start to fade away. I do not want civilization to crumble, by any means, but it always makes me wonder about what type of person I would be in that situation. Anyway, that is why I bought a […]
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Warrior Girl Unearthed is Angeline Boulley’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter, which I loved; I was really excited to return to this world. We go back to the Ojibwe community of Sugar Island and meet our protagonist Perry, 16-year-old niece of Daunis, the primary character in FD. Set ten years after the first novel, Perry’s plans for a relaxing summer are disrupted when she wrecks her car and is forced into a summer internship to repay her Aunt Daunis for covering the cost […]
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
This was a great literary suspense debut, with one pretty big flaw that it feels like the author just really misjudged, but she is clearly a talented lady and I will definitely be reading her next book. Firstly, I just want to complain a little that I can’t even manage to finish a novel in my own language let alone write and finish and PUBLISH a beautiful book in my SECOND*, and then have it be this good. So that’s just me being jealous and […]
Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
Crime fiction, at its best, can be nail bitingly tense. It can reveal profound truths about human nature. It can bring shock and horror and comfort at the same time. That all, of course, assumes the novel you’re reading is actually any good. Eeny Meeny, as you might suspect, is not one of these books. In hindsight, the title probably should’ve clued me in on that. The plot in a nutshell: a crazed psychopath kidnaps two people at a time and leaves them to die […]
