Thrill of the Week
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Ashley Winstead knows how to “give me pumpkin to talk about,” and this was my first eerie and thrilling encounter with her stories. The story weaves together a tapestry of eeriness, cleverness, and layers of exciting twisted twists. The pacing is spot on, building tension steadily to the story’s climax, and I was turning the
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What is going on between the covers Lee is unhoused and living in her car. Sleeping in remote parking lots and on quiet side streets at night, she hopes to stay unnoticed. One morning she hears the sound of a woman crying and upon following the cries, saves the woman from drowning in the ocean.
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When The Push was released, I wanted to stand in a bookstore and hand it to everyone who came in and tell them they had to read it. It was a huge-selling book that needed no push to read. I feel the same about The Whispers, which releases on June 6, and I suspect it
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In Kia Abdullah’s latest, Those People Next Door, she gives something slightly different from her other books. She still has written a thought-provoking psychological thriller and courtroom drama with her trademark twist, but she adds more drama to the story while exploring class, race, aggression, community dynamics, and neighbors misbehaving, and the underbelly of a
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There is no better thrill than starting a book without wanting to put it down. One that captures your full attention, that you pause everything and are so excited you are turning the pages as fast as possible to see how it all turns out for your characters. That’s what an excellent cat-and-mouse game has
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Over the years, there has been plenty of hype for Loreth Anne White books, and while I have been interested in discovering what that hype was all about, The Maid’s Diary is my first, and again, I seem to have started with the wrong one. I enjoyed this one; however, that overthinker prevented me from
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