Category: fiction
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Book Review: Lock Every Door
When everything has been taken from you–your parents, your only sibling, your job, your boyfriend–which sums up just about your entire life–would you be willing to take anything offered your way in exchange for money and a temporary luxury? “Lock Every Door” by Riley Sager follows the story of Jules…
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Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Love in the time of tragedy is the most sacred form of love. “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris tells the story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was plunged into the horrors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death concentration camp meant as the culmination of the anti-Semitic policies of…
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Book Review: The Flatshare
What thoughts could possibly permeate your brain at every single moment of the person you have never met but whom you share a flat with–let alone a bed with? Does it not feel strange? Do thoughts of how your flatmate looks like in real life ever pop in your head?…
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Book Review: The Whisper Man
Life is brimming with bad people and equally bad situations and it is a parent’s job to protect his child from the unknown danger that lurks even in the safest of places. This is the premise of “The Whisper Man” by Alex North, a story about a father and his…
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Book Review: An Anonymous Girl
“An Anonymous Girl” is the second psychological thriller novel co-authored by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen after their bestseller, “The Wife Between Us”. Through the first half of the novel, I admit to having been drawn, finding myself curious to see how the story unravels. This is the kind of…
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Book Review: Ask Again, Yes
There are stories told that speak of sad, vengeful events that took place in a person’s life. And there are stories left untold, long cast into oblivion. While some are forgotten, others serve as a reminder of one’s past. Stories can either transform or break, and mend broken things in…
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Book Review: My Lovely Wife
I stumbled upon “My Lovely Wife” by Samantha Downing while searching for recommended fiction thrillers for 2019. I have read quite a few psychological thrillers in my lifetime that while some were presumably predictable, there were still those that surprised me. This fast-paced novel sent shivers down my spine but…
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Book Review: The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware’s, fifth novel, The Turn of the Key, has been calling the shots early on in the literary fiction game. I have been an avid fan of mystery/thriller novels, and Ruth Ware is no stranger to the genre. I have only read one of her novels, The Girl in…
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Book Review: One of Us Is Lying
The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this. -Goodreads My…
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