Tag: Mystery

Review: First Impression by Pauline Creeden

Posted April 30, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: First Impression by Pauline Creeden

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.First Impression by Pauline Creeden Series: Shadow Maven #1 Published by AltWit Press on March 31, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Pages: 176 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Chira Kelly thought she didn’t need anyone…until she met Ben. Because of one ugly rumor, Chira lives as an outcast at her school. Which is fine with her, because she works better alone. Always has, always will. And at least she has her one and only true friend, Tasha. When Tasha insists that they join a group to visit a possibly haunted abandoned old schoolhouse, she’s wary, but joins her friend. Because of that decision, their lives are in jeopardy as a malevolent spirit targets the group. Tragedies and accidents pick them off one by one, and Chira finds herself drawn to the one person who can see the truth. But can he protect her? So I’m not really […]

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Review: You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Posted March 22, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz Published by Grand Central Publishing on March 18, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 439 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to examine their first impressions of men for signs of serious trouble later on. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disast and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create […]

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Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Posted March 18, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on May 24, 2012 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 399 Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary […]

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