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A Tale as Old as Patty Hearst

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

August 24, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Oh boy, where to begin with this one.  On a crisp autumn evening, art teacher Mia is kidnapped by Colin, a low level criminal. He is supposed to hand her over to a notorious gangster who plans on using Mia to demand ransom from her influential lawyer dad. But Colin knows the gangster, knows what’ll happen to Mia, and impulsively decides to take Mia away himself. He takes her to an abandoned cabin in the woods where they settle in for the winter. As Colin […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime thriller, female-centric thrillers, Mary Kubica, Stockholm Syndrome, The Good Girl

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime thriller, female-centric thrillers, Mary Kubica, Stockholm Syndrome, The Good Girl ·
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Good Writin’, Bad Thrillin’

Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

July 16, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Clara Solberg’s infant son is only four days old when the police come to her door to tell her that her husband Nick and her daughter Maisie have in a serious car accident. Maisie is unharmed but Nick soon dies, leaving Clara alone with two young children and no income. To make matters worse, Maisie keeps having nightmares about being chased off the road by a ‘bad man’. Clara initially chalks it up to trauma and Maisie being a four year old, but soon other […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Every Last Lie, loss, Mary Kubica, mourning, thriller

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Every Last Lie, loss, Mary Kubica, mourning, thriller ·
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Just don’t read the last chapter

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

June 1, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“I remembered the way it is with dreams sometimes, how they have a habit of being less literal and more metaphoric, and I thought that sometimes with dreams like this, it’s not about who’s chasing you, but what you’re running from.” Jessie Sloan’s mother, Eden, has recently passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer; Jessie is overcome with grief and is unable to sleep. When Jessie goes to apply for college, something her mother suggested she do, she is told her social security number […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Mary Kubica, When the Lights Go Out

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Mary Kubica, When the Lights Go Out ·
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Every Last Lie

February 5, 2018 by SConn 3 Comments

So this is my very first review. Hopefully it’s not so terrible that I get kicked out. I read Mary Kubica’s suspense novel Every Last Lie. The novel revolves around a women named Clara who has a 4 year old daughter and a newborn son and who loses her husband in an automobile accident just days after her sons birth. Even though there is absolutely nothing suspicious about her husband’s death Clara comes to suspect literally EVERYONE of having murdered her husband. She bases this […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Mary Kubica

SConn's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Mary Kubica ·
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I’m pretty sure I hate this book

January 28, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

  So I was right when I made the title of this post. I definitely hated this book.  It promise to be single white female on steroids. Sounds exciting right? What I got was nine and a half hours of nothing happening between people, no single white female anything, and characters that I really had a hard time rooting for. I would’ve given it 1 star, but the last half hour was pretty good. Why oh why did I have to slog through the other […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Mary Kubica, missing, roommates

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Mary Kubica, missing, roommates ·
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I can’t muster enough feelings for this to come up with a snappy title

September 27, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I really enjoyed The Good Girl but was a bit “meh” on Don’t You Cry, my ambivalence towards Kubica’s Every Last Lie has sealed the deal for me- I’m just not a fan of her delivery. Our story is told from two perspectives: Clara Solberg in the present and her husband, Nick, in the past. While Clara is home with her week old son, Nick manages to wrap his car around a tree while driving his daughter home from ballet. Maisie, their daughter, walks away without a scratch but Nick […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Every Last Lie, Mary Kubica

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Every Last Lie, Mary Kubica ·
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