Tag: thriller
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My Dot Hutchison The Collector Series Review
Probably my favourite series I read this year, and certainly the one that surprised me the most in terms of how much I enjoyed it, The Collector Series by Dot Hutchison is truly something I cannot stop thinking about. With its dark adult crime fiction foundations reminiscent of Criminal Minds, the character interactions and relationships…
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The Vanishing Season – The Nail-Biting Ending to Dot Hutchison’s Masterful Crime Fiction Series
Dot Hutchison is lucky I haven’t met her, because I have many things I wish to say to her. Namely, how can she leave us readers to blubber and wipe our tears all on our lonesomes after that heartbreaking, beautiful read. The Vanishing Season is not the read I expected as a whole, but it…
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Adrienne Young’s A Sea of Unspoken Things – As Good As Her Others?
I fell in love with Spells for Forgetting, spent my nights kicking my feet over The Unmaking of June Farrow, but it seems that A Sea of Unspoken Things has left me wanting more. This adult contemporary fantasy, set in the beautiful Six Rivers, Northern California, it was hoping for more goodness from an author…
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The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison is a Hair-Raising, Scarily Good Read
I’m back with another novel from The Collector series by Dot Hutchison, this one being The Roses of May. I thoroughly enjoyed The Butterfly Garden, and as soon as I finished it, I requested the this one and the third one, The Summer Children, for my mum to read. I was going to try and…
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Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – A Creepy Horror Must-Read
I spotted this quite by chance, but given the spooky season is upon us, I added it to my library requests and got my hands on it yesterday. Then I read it in a few hours. Jason Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures is the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween. With the creepy pictures, strange…
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The Dark and Sinister Tale of Dot Hutchison’s The Butterfly Garden
I requested The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison thanks to one of my trusted Bookstagram readers, and given the number of novels I had to read in a short time, I gave it to my mum to read first. She zoomed through it. I just finished it, and even being under the weather couldn’t prevent…
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An Intense Horror Thriller in Noelle W. Ihli’s The Thicket
How can you get into the spooky reading spirit? Well, I think finding a book where the gruesome setting is an American Halloween fair is a great start. Noelle W. Ihli’s The Thicket does not play around with its apt pacing, firm tension, and thrilling immersion, and if you are searching for a short but…
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Sue Minix’s Murder at the Bookstore Gives Cosy Mystery Vibes
I do love a good murder mystery, but sometimes something light and cosy is good for the soul. When I read the blurb for Murder at the Bookstore by Sue Minix it felt like that kind of novel – quaint, a little wacky, and a decent mystery out of it. While it didn’t meet my…