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The Devil at Your Elbow

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

August 31, 2020 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I confess that I feel entirely inadequate to reviewing When No One is Watching. Thrillers are’t usually my genre. This thriller is layered with racial politics and I didn’t give myself nearly enough time to digest and process. As a white woman of a certain age, I assuredly missed nuances. Despite all of my reservations about myself as a reviewer for this book, I highly recommend it. Sydney Green has moved back to her mother’s brownstone in Brooklyn after a divorce and professional failure. Her mother’s […]

I can’t stay quiet about The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaeledes

February 7, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Alicia Berenson has been silent ever since she was arrested for a violently murdering her husband. She was silent during her arrest. She was silent during her trial. She was silent during her stint at a mental health facility. Theo Fabar, a psychotherapist struggling in his own life, thinks he can help. Theo attempts the impossible: to uncover Alicia’s story and start her on the path to healing all the while she remains silent. The result of his efforts is the unraveling of a mystery […]

This whole book is one big WTF moment.

Confessions by Kanae Minato

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

If you would like to read something absolutely wild, go ahead and pick up this book. I knew it was going to be dark going in, and maybe it’s just because I don’t read all that many books that could truly be described as “dark,” but this was DARK. But also, it somehow managed to avoid being bleak? I think it was because it was so audacious. I just kept thinking the whole time I was reading it, WHAT. SHE DID WHAT NOW. (She being […]

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

December 28, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

I am simultaneously satisfied and disappointed. I feel like you really only get one thriller in your lifetime that really knocks your socks off your feet, leaving your mouth hanging open like sort of fish creature, only able to say, “WHAT? What just happened???” And I have more than used up my quota of those types of books. I think Gone Girl was my first. I think it was a lot of people’s. And since Gone Girl there have been so, so many psychological thrillers […]

What was there before girls were on trains and gone?

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

May 20, 2019 by Melina Leave a Comment

Yet another book for the people who enjoyed Gone Girl and Girl on A Train. I am actually far over seeking books out that say this on the cover because I’ve been burned. And also? Gone Girl was fun because it was new and different. It was fun deciding if I wanted to root for evil…but now? Old hat, I’ve read thousands of books for fans of GG and GoAT…none of them really seemed anything like that. This is no exception, but I’m happy to […]

“The thing is, I suppose that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.”

November 29, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

What Tana French, one of my favorite authors, has done here with The Witch Elm (her first non-Dublin Murder Squad book) is very interesting, but I will acknowledge it probably won’t be for everyone. The two starting points for inspiration on this book are Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm? and the idea of: what if your protagonist was a guy who has never had to work hard for anything in his life? And then you swirl those ideas around for a while in […]

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