Tag: adult crime
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My Take on The Silent Patient
Having read The Maidens earlier this month, I decided to pick up The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides to see what his debut novel is about. Across the board, I was satisfied but there were a couple of details that didn’t sit well with me and hindered my overall enjoyment of the book, especially the…
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Local Woman Missing Missed the Mark
Local Woman Missing by Maria Kubica is an adult crime thriller, weaving together multiple perspectives and timelines to create a whirlwind novel filled with tension, secrets, betrayal and questions. Many many questions. I will try and remain as spoiler-free as possible in this review, so let me start by noting what I enjoyed. I do…
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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone is a Genuine Pleasure
What a joy this read was! Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson is a breath of fresh air. We have a very unique narrator, a narrative style and delivery unlike anything I have read before and an enigmatic family history is filled with secrets, sketchy activity and death. It’s a party…
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The Maidens Threw Me For A Loop
I went into this thinking The Maidens by Alex Michaelides was going to be a dark academia read similar to that of If We Were Villains. I was wrong. The Maidens is not simply a dark academia book – its adult crime fiction. If you had the same thinking as me, then let this be…
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Daisy Darker – The Thrilling Suspense Novel That Threw Me Into 2023
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney was one of the first books I read this year and I feel confident in saying that it’s been a kick in the right direction for my reading as both a reader searching for new genres to enjoy and a writer wanting to learn new techniques and storytelling methods. I…