Category: thriller
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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…
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Book Review: Horrorstör
This post contains mild 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! Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is a 248-page horror novel. It is set in a knock-off Ikea store in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find furniture destroyed. Sales are down, the security cameras reveal nothing amiss, and the store managers are panicking. To solve the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour overnight shift. They patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sightings…
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Book Review: She’s Not Sorry
This post contains major 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! She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica is 330-page mystery thriller. Meghan Michaels is a full-time nurse in the ICU, juggling her job with being a single mom to a teenage daughter. A patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury from jumping off a bridge and landing twenty feet below on the train tracks. It looks like attempted suicide to everyone,…
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Book Review: The Woman in the Library
This post contains mild 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 Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill is a 292-page mystery novel set in the Boston Public Library. The library is quiet until it’s shattered by a woman’s piercing scream. Security guards tell everyone to stay put until they investigate the origins of the scream. While waiting, four strangers who happened to sit at the same table pass the time with conversation. Each has…
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Book Review: The Guest List
This post contains mild 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 Guest List by Lucy Foley is a 319-page locked-room murder mystery that takes place on a small island off the coast of Ireland. The story centers around the wedding of Julia (Jules) Keegan, publisher of a popular online magazine called The Download, and Will Slater, rising TV star for Survive the Night. What should be a happy celebration turns dark when a body is…
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Book Review: The Violin Conspiracy
This post contains mild 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 Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb is a 352-page mystery focusing on main character Ray McMillian. Ray has loved playing the violin since he was a kid and scrounged up enough money to rent one from school to pursue his dreams. His mother thinks he should get a real job despite him bringing in money working at weddings, but he won’t let any naysayers get…