Category: thriller
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Book Review: This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
A review of This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum, a twisty mystery exploring friendship, manipulation, and survival inside a controlling relationship.
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Book Review: Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
Honest review of Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino. A thriller set during the COVID housing crisis featuring an unlikeable female protagonist, satire, and morally gray choices. Here’s why it didn’t fully work for me and who might enjoy it.
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Book Review: 59 Minutes by Holly Seddon
59 Minutes by Holly Seddon is a visceral, time-driven thriller that captures the chaos, desperation, and moral collapse sparked by a looming nuclear threat.
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Book Review: The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
In The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak, a father’s attempt to reconnect with his daughter turns into a twisted family drama filled with lies, privilege, and shocking secrets. Read my honest review of this dark, unpredictable thriller.
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Book Review: Tilt by Emma Pattee
A heart-pounding story of survival, Tilt by Emma Pattee follows a pregnant woman navigating the chaos of a massive Portland earthquake. Read my full review of this gripping, one-day thriller about courage, human connection, and life-changing choices.
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Book Review: November Road
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! November Road by Lou Berney is a 320-page historical fiction thriller. Set against the assassination of JFK, the novel centers around a cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America. Frank Guidry is a loyal lieutenant to New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello who has learned everyone is expendable. Now it’s his turn. He knows too much about the crime of the century—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.…
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Book Review: Beautiful Ugly
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney is a 320-page thriller set on the Isle of Amberly, a tiny Scottish island. Author Grady Green has everything he wants in life when his newest book makes the bestsellers list, and he just wants to celebrate the milestone with his beautiful wife Abby. He calls her to share the exciting news as she’s driving home, but then he hears Abby…
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Book Review: The Last Thing He Told Me
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave is a 307-page thriller mystery novel. This is the blurb from the publisher: Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who…
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Book Review: The Honeys
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is a 344-page Young Adult horror novel. Mars has always been the shadow to his twin sister Caroline’s radiance. However, when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars must learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who’d grown distant in the months leading up to her death. Mars’s genderfluidity means he’s often excluded from the traditions and expectations of his…
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Book Review: Bury Your Gays
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Bury Your Gays is a commentary on the Hollywood tendency to either not explicitly acknowledge a character is gay or to kill off the gay character. Misha Byrne is a screenwriter for a very popular TV show: The Travelers. When the executives want him to kill off the two female leads after revealing they’re in love instead of allowing them to have their happy ending, Misha…