YOU KNOW ME & psych-thrillers (and also domestic thrillers!!). I love twisty mind games (especially CLEVER mind games between the author and the reader). I love guessing the outcome (and even more, when I’m wrong!!), and I love unreliable narrators, and evil husbands… or is it the wives? You know what I mean. I love a book that has you on the edge of your seat, vacillating between fear and excitement, titillation, and dread. And then… culminating in a massive jaw-dropping twist that nobody (or at least… me 😉 ) saw coming.
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Book Review – The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
The Mother-in-Law: A Novel <— I absolutely loved this one, but it wasn’t quite “the obviousness” of what I was expecting. I thought it would be a domestic thriller about either an evil mother-in-law (yay!!) or maybe it would be the daughter-in-law that was the bad guy (oooooh… an unreliable narrator, maybe?)
And maybe it’s exactly that. Or maybe not… 🤷♀️ 😉 See? I’m an unreliable book blogger, now. 😂
There it was, randomly appearing on my Amazon feed, on super-sale, and I dunno… between skimming incredible editorial reviews, and the dark aura of the cover and tagline, I just knew it had to be mine. I was excited, anticipating chills, but what I experienced, surprisingly… was… warmth.
Freida McFadden – The Housemaid Series Reading Order
OMG BLURB JOLT ALERT!! THIS SERIES HAS BEEN ROCKING THE AMAZON CHARTS & IT SOUNDS RIGHT UP MY PSYCH-THRILLER ALLEY!!
When I asked what book got us out of a reading slump, so many responded this one!!
Katie: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden! Now I have read 6 of her books in about 6 weeks!
Tracy: I am halfway through,and hated having to things today, because all I want to do is see how this book plays out!!
Kim: I’ve been wanting to read it!! She’s had me in a chokehold for a few weeks.
Mo: Just starting The Housemaid. My first Freida McFadden book. A bit out of my normal genre but I’m excited!
Book Review – A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing
A Twisted Love Story <— With a title and cover like that, this book just SCREAMED for me to read it. I’m 100% into unconventional (and even downright dark or obsessive or just plain awful, and yet in its own way – wonderful – love stories) that I was sure this was gonna be something on that level. The minute I saw it, I one-clicked it (paid full price and everything!!).
I had already heard of this author’s other books that my fellow readers loved, so that was just icing on the cake.