Tag: mystery
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Book Review #29: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
My first book of the new year! Yay! While my review for The Shining came out this year, I did technically finish that book in 2023. Killers of the Flower Moon is the first book I’ve read (listened to) this year, and boy is it a heavy hitter. I think many people who have grown…
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Book Review #27: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Love, Actually of dark mystery novels. Gillian Flynn’s debut novel, Dark Objects, follows protagonist Libby Day as she tries to find her family’s murderer. During the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (which I discussed with extreme incredulity in my Unmask Alice post), Libby’s mother and two sisters are murdered in their farmhouse in the…
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Book Review #26: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I want to begin this review by saying that it will be extremely spoiler heavy. This book came out OVER a decade ago (2012), and the movie came out NEARLY a decade ago (2016). If you’ve managed to avoid the spoilers and big reveals so far, I’m assuming it’s because you really don’t care about…
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Book Review #22: Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
After finishing Unmask Alice, I am in shock. In this book, Rick Emerson gives a detailed account of the history behind what would now be considered a “viral” novel, Go Ask Alice. For those who are unfamiliar with this book, it was initially published as the absolutely true diary of a real-life, troubled teen. The…
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Book Review #15: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
To start, I wish this book was rated as poorly on Goodreads as the movie was on Rotten Tomatoes. It would have saved me some time. The Woman in the Window is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from severe agoraphobia. The protagonist, Dr. Anna Fox, is a child psychologist who has been stuck…