Tag: suspense novel
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Somewhere in the Dark by R.J. Jacobs – A Psychological Thriller You Need to Read
At less than 300 pages, Somewhere in the Dark won’t take up a full afternoon to read, but I promise you, you will be thinking about it for the rest of the night. Somewhere in the Dark is my second R.J. Jacobs read in a week, but I admit that it is the one I…
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Sci-Fi Wonder in Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is a blockbuster of a novel set on a spaceship manned by the chosen few to save humanity. Akin to a mystery whodunit, The Deep Sky opens with a bang – well, an explosion – and throws everyone on board into a frenzy as the ship is blown off-course and…
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A Chilling Thriller in R.J. Jacobs’s Always the First to Die
R.J. Jacobs blew me away with This Is How We End Things, so I decided to pick up two more books of his, Alway the First to Die and Somewhere in the Dark. Always the First to Die intrigued me upon reading the blurb and as the story fleshed itself out, I couldn’t help but…
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Scratch your Dark Academia Itch with This Is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs
Finally, another review to write up and, more importantly, another book read! This Is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs hooked me with its teasing and emotionally involved introduction. The rest of the novel revealed itself like an oleander bloom – stunning and deadly. This Dark Academia novel is one you must add to…
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Riley Sager’s The Only One Left Left Me Wanting More
The Only One Left has been floating around social media for a while now, popping up on “anticipated reads of the month” posts and all sorts for what seems like months. It’s been on my library requests for almost as long too and with every new post I saw including it I was slowly getting…