Tag: suspense
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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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Scary Books I’m Reading for October
I am one of the many people who looks forward to the month of October every year. I don’t know if any other part of the year has such a stark transition. One month, it’s summer time with weekends at the beach, and the next month people are drinking hot pumpkin spice lattes and wearing…
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Book Review #21: Ninth House & Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
By now, I think it’s safe to say that you all know I’m a pretty big Leigh Bardugo fan. The Six of Crows duology is one of my favorite YA book series (that feels more “adult” than YA anyway), and I am always excited to read anything Bardugo puts out. Because of this, I was…
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Book Review #20: Misery by Stephen King
What. A. Ride. Before I delve into this review, I feel I should mention that I am a big Stephen King fan, so I’m generally biased when it comes to his novels. There are some that I have felt just weren’t for me, but for the most part I know that when I pick up…
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Book Review #19: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
It’s been a while. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to motivate yourself to write when you really don’t want to. As you can tell by my months-long absence, I did not take my own advice. I would like to add a quick tip, though: Another great way to make yourself write…
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Book Review #11: The Stand by Stephen King
As promised, my book review of The Stand is here! Right off the bat, I will say I genuinely enjoyed reading this book. Though it took me an incredibly long time (I did move my entire house during this time, to be fair), and there were a few hiccups along the way with the book…
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Book Review #10: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
I’m going to put a PSA here to enjoy this book review because it will be the last one for a few weeks, at least. I’m currently reading The Stand by Stephen King, the 1200 page version that was released in the 90s, and it’s going to take me a while. I love Stephen King,…