Tag: book review
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Review: My Lovely Wife
This is the story of a normal married couple. They work their jobs, raise their teenage children, and stress about money. They also murder people together. Synopsis: Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose 15-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting…. Our love story is simple.…
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Review: The Family Upstairs
I cannot get enough of Lisa Jewell’s brand of twisty, creepy suspense. When Libby Jones turns twenty-five years old, she learns that she has inherited a house from her birth parents. A very expensive, beautiful house with a dark secret: her birth parents, along with an unknown man, were found dead of an apparent suicide…
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Review: Twice in a Blue Moon
The dynamic duo of Christina Lauren have become my go-to for heartwarming, romantic, readable books about characters who feel like my own good friends, and Twice in a Blue Moon was no exception! Fourteen years ago, Sam and Tate fell for each other in a whirlwind two-week trip to London. Tate even trusts him enough…
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Review: Scars Like Wings
One year ago, teenager Ava Lee lost her parents and best friend in a fire, and was burned over the majority of her body, including her face. After a grueling recovery, and at the insistence of her medical team and family, she reluctantly agrees to return to high school even though she’s terrified of how…
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Review: The Doll Factory
Sometimes you just need to walk on the dark side. This novel, set in Victorian London, introduces us to an eccentric taxidermist named Silas and a beautiful but haunted painter named Iris. When they meet by chance, Silas becomes obsessed with Iris and determined to have her. The reader watches, horrified and transfixed, as Silas…