book review | Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth 🌳 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 Jessica, Norah, and Alicia were so lucky to be rescued from family tragedies as young girls and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild. Where they were raised on an idyllic farm es

book review | The Hunting Wives by May Cobb 💍 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Mapleton, Texas 🐎 A bored suburban mom gets drawn into a scandalous friend group. In this elite wealthy friend group heavy drinking, illicit affairs, and late-night target practice are normal. These activities escalate

book review | What Happened To The McCrays? by Tracey Lange ❄️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Potsdam, NY ☃️ Kyle McCray returns home, two years after walking out on his family, to care for his sick father. He is forced to confront his estranged wife and the grief over their deceased son.

book review | The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 🚪 my rating: ⭐️ Setting: Los Angeles, CA 🌴 The premise of this book is about a support group of women, each a final girl, who survived a slasher-style massacre. A final girl is the last girl in a horror movie who survives. They st

book review | A Mother Would Know by Amber Garza🌿 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: California 🌴 Valerie invites her troubled adult son, Hudson, to live with her. When two local women are murdered, Hudson is immediately a suspect. Valerie fights to defend her son but begins questioning who Hudso

book review | All The Wrong Places by Joy Fielding 🩸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Boston, MA 🌳 This story follows four women who are using a dating app to find companionship and a killer who uses the same app to find his victims. One of the women unknowingly goes on a date with the killer

book review | Middle Of The Night by Riley Sager 💿 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Hemlock Circle, New Jersey 🏡 Ethan Marsh returns to his childhood home 30 years after his best friend, Billy, disappeared from a tent in his backyard. Still haunted by the unsolved past, Ethan notices strange t

book review | She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena🧳 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Albany, New York 🏢 Bryden and Sam seem to be the perfect couple and have a perfect life. Until one day Bryden suddenly disappears from their luxury condo — leaving behind her car, phone, and keys. Their perf

book review | I Did Warn Her by Sian Gilbert 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: middle of the Atlantic Ocean 🐠 The Ophelia, a billionaire yacht, sets sail on a weeklong Atlantic crossing. Sasha takes a last minute job as a stewardess. The five of them look shockingly identical. The Ophelia isn’t

book review | Beyond The Wire by James D. Shipman 🔥 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland 🇵🇱 This novel is inspired by the real-life uprising in 1944 of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (A Sonderkommando was a special unit of prisoner forced labor. It was thei

book review | She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica 🌉 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Chicago 🏙️ Meghan Michaels, an ICU nurse, becomes entangled in a mystery involving one of her patients. A girl named Caitlin arrives in a coma having fallen from a bridge onto train tracks. But then a witness come

book review | Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera 🔪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Plumpton, Texas 🤠 Lucy is suspected of murdering her best friend, Savvy, after being found covered in her blood. The only problem is — she has no memory of what happened. Years later, a popular true crime podcaste

book review | Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison ⛷️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Vail, Colorado 🌨️ Competitive skiier, Mindy Wright, suffers a terrible downhill crash. During surgery, doctors discover she has a severe case of leukemia. A stem cell transplant is the only option. But when her par

book review | The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley 🧪 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Bishop’s Lacey, 1950s English countryside 🌳 A beloved puppeteer, Rupert Porson, is murdered during a performance. His death seems connected to a past tragedy. Precocious and chemistry lovin

book review | Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham 🍺 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Rutledge College, South Carolina 🌺 Margot meets Lucy at the end of her freshman year of college and is immediately drawn to her. She soon finds herself living with Lucy and two other girls in an off-campus

book review | November 9 by Colleen Hoover 🧳 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: LA 🌴 & New York City 🌆 Fallon meets Ben the day before she is set to move across the country. Their immediate attraction leads them to spend the day together. They agree to meet once a year, on November 9th, with no

book review | Killman Creek by Rachel Caine 🚔 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Stillhouse Lake, TN 🛶 & on the run 🚗 This is the 2nd book in a series. It picks up almost immediately after the first book. I highly recommend reading them in order. Convicted serial killer, Melvin Royal, has

book review | Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak 🖼️ my rating: ⭐️✨ Setting: Spring Brook, New Jersey 🌳 Mallory Quinn takes a job nannying for a young boy named Teddy. Teddy begins drawing pictures that are increasingly disturbing. His artwork quickly evolves into sketches well beyond a five-

book review | Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson 🚁 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Heart Pond Island, Maine ⚓️ Abigail Baskin marries an extremely wealthy man, Bruce Lamb, and he whisks her away on a romantic honeymoon to a private island. But while on her bachelorette weekend she had a one-

book review | The Wedding Planner by Danielle Steel 💍 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: New York City 🌆 A successful wedding planner with a failed relationship history of her own. Faith Ferguson is an extremely successful wedding planner. She has sworn off marriage for herself after two fai