Prom Mom takes themes incredibly prevalent in women’s fiction and twists them upside down, making a potent point about revenge, accountability, and pigeonholing. The returning bad girl, the reformed bad boy, the innocent wife – they collide here and live and breathe and twist in the wind. The end result is something incredibly powerful. Amber…
It’s One of Us is J.T. Ellison at her very best. A twisty-turny domestic thriller that examines the many ways to have a baby, and the devastation that occurs when you find the process is far more complex than expected. Her morning starts with blood. Olivia Bender had not been expecting to flush this particular…
from The New York Times in October 2022: Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She’s sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham — combined. To say she’s currently the best-selling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books…
The Villa is an inky-dark look at two sets of best friends coping with some jaw-dropping betrayals. It unfortunately sports some predictable twists, and then takes far too many distracting excursions along its primrose pathway, all of which keeps it from pulling a higher grade. Motivational author Chess Chandler (WIP: Swipe Right on Life!) and…
As we head into the holiday season, Daisy Darker reminds us that some families should forgo the traditional reunions. In fact, some families should never have been formed at all. The Darkers have not gathered at Seaglass, their mansion by the Cornish coast, for ages, but this is a milestone year – Nana is turning…
Stay Awake is as flat as a wooden board when it comes to style and presentation. It does effectively evoke sympathy for its hapless heroine, but its monomaniacal plot and dry storytelling do it a disservice. Liv Reese is in the middle of a nightmare. Waking up abruptly in the back of a taxi, she…
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn’t know it existed if you weren’t standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that’s when you see a man up there—a man you’d recognize anywhere. He may be older…
The Overnight Guest is an unexpected, twisty delight divided by multiple narrators and multiple PoVs that still manages to work. It’s gruesome and involving and horrifying and wonderfully intriguing. Wylie Lark doesn’t expect to become the central figure in a real-life mystery when she locks herself away in a remote house in Burden, Iowa to…
All I Want opens with a wild moment of horror as a heavily pregnant woman disturbs the local community talent show with her screaming, right in the middle of a woman’s performance of Wouldn’t it Be Lurvely? from My Fair Lady. That scream carries throughout the book, but it never manages to be quite as…
We’ve all played the game but few of us have used as high stakes as are utilized in Alice Feeney’s new domestic thriller Rock Paper Scissors. Told in alternating points of view, this locked room mystery will keep you guessing to the very end. Amelia and Adam Wright are all wrong for each other. They…
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