This was creepy, unsettling and had an epic ending. You let her in. You’ll wish you hadn’t.Following a whirlwind romance, Rose and Chris’s marriage has been unshakeable for twenty years. But when teenager Katie turns up on their doorstep, blonde, wide-eyed and beautiful, their perfect life threatens to crumble to pieces. Because Katie says she’s […]
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This book was SO much fun to read, I tore through it in a day because it’s such an enjoyable, hilarious yet heartwarming book. It was the toothpaste smeared around the sink that broke my marriage. As I rubbed it away AGAIN, I was reminded of everything else I’ve put up with these twenty-five years. […]
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This was intense, clever, fast-paced and I loved it. Silence falls as the coffin is lifted out of the ground, yesterday’s rain cascading from it like a waterfall. Glancing into what should have been an empty grave, everyone gasps at the sight of blueish-white fingers exposed in the soil below…When the body of a teenage […]
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Hello, and welcome to my new feature! ‘Bookish Bites’ is a quickfire review round, where I write shorter reviews based off quick and easy to answer questions. If you don’t have the time to read lengthy reviews all the time, then this is the one for you! Kicking off this feature is Last Lullaby by […]
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What can I say really? Angela has absolutely smashed it yet again, with another brilliant Detective Kim Stone novel! Finally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. ‘You really should have played with me,’ I tell her again although I know […]
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I thought this was a really unusual thriller, that absolutely flew by, in a fascinating setting. I thought I knew how to help them. I knew nothing.When Lydia and Josh Green walk into Karen’s office for counselling one rainy February morning, Karen sees a couple under stress, almost at breaking point. A husband working long […]
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This was a detailed, intriguing and complex mystery, with an interesting main detective and a horrific, scary crime. She began to sing, the girl. Her voice was soft, so soft it was almost of the wind. It was a lullaby. She cradled her arms, rocking them gently back and forth. As if she was holding […]
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Okay, honestly, I haven’t read any of the previous books in this series but after reading this I 100% will be, because oh my god this was awesome. Anna Davis has grown up. She’s not the naive runaway who escaped her vicious gangland boyfriend anymore. She’s tougher than ever and she won’t let anyone take […]
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This was fast-paced, electrifying and super intense, and I thought the crime was a brilliantly written mystery. There were five of them once. Now the others are all dead. And he’s next.When FBI Agent Jess Bishop gets an urgent and scared phone call in the middle of the night, she sets off to Gracemount Academy, […]
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