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The Turnout by Megan Abbott

September 10, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Free. I checked this book out from my library. Megan Abbott just owns. In a time when everyone is desperate to write a female-centric thriller in the mold of Gone Girl, Abbott has done her own thing: taking female-centric activities like cheerleading, gymnastics, and femme-focused medicine, and excavating the hell out of all subtext to examine what the world does to women, especially young women. Here she turns her eye to ballet and produces something that continues to match her incredibly high […]

Like A Wes Anderson Psychological Thriller in Japan

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

September 7, 2021 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

I eagerly picked up Earthlings when I heard it was released. I loved Sayaka Murata’s English language debut, Convenience Store Woman, and was excited to see what the latest translation of her work had to offer. She has a unique and compelling style of prose, and a way of explaining the pressures of Japanese society that is sympathetic to her weird outsiders and totally rational in a slightly twisted way. The cover and back of Earthlings is full of praise for Convenience Store Woman, raving […]

What does the dark dark wood got to do with it?

In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

August 31, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

It’s one of those books where the “mysterious events of the past” are mysterious only because the narrator isn’t telling you about it. Leonora, 26 years old is a crime author and lives a solitary and lonely life. Then, she receives an email from a woman she does not know, inviting her to a “hen party” for a friend she has not spoken to for a long time. But she goes. This hen party is for the wedding of Leonora’s childhood friend Clare. A wedding […]

I should have just watched that Trixie and Katya video

The Woman in the Window by A.J Finn

June 21, 2021 by caragwapa 3 Comments

Did I read The Woman in the Window because I wanted to watch an episode of Netflix’s Queens Who Like to Watch (with Trixie and Katya) but I couldn’t watch it because I hadn’t seen the movie, and I couldn’t watch the movie because I hadn’t read the book? I will neither confirm nor deny but, YES I DID. All this just to watch a 10 minute video of my favorite queens. Was it worth it? Well, yes but only because Trixie and Katya are […]

Generic title, author name and book.. but it was fine

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones

May 12, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

It has been around two weeks since I’ve finished this book and frankly, its taking me some time to conjure up details of the book. Not to say that it’s bad, maybe just a bit generic? I’m sure I’ve read a lot of psychological thrillers like this. You know that ones where the bad guy could be anyone, and there is definitely a *SPOILER ALERT* big twist or some misunderstanding. This one book just hangs along the with the rest of them and does not […]

A dark topic, but ultimately not as depressing as you might expect

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

May 2, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

*WARNING, THERE MIGHT BE SPOILERS. NOT REALLY MAJOR ONE BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BEFORE READING THE BOOK, SKIP THE REVIEW I read three Lisa Jewell books in succession more than ten years ago. They just seemed to pop up a lot in my favourite second hand book store. From what I remember, they were more or less “chick lit”, some twists but mostly focused on romance. They were light, fast reads, and I liked them but was not totally wowed by […]

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