Tag: suspense

  • The Last Thing He Told Me

    The Last Thing He Told Me

    Title: The Last Thing He Told Me Author: Laura Dave Release Date: May 4, 2021 Format: Audiobook Genre: Mystery Sub-Genre: Contemporary Rating: Read-A-Likes: What I Liked: This was a book that left me guessing what was going to happen until the very end. I liked that Dave decided to make Owen and Hannah a newlywed,…

  • State of Terror

    State of Terror

    I’m a huge Louise Penny fan (both of her writing and of her!) so when I heard she was not only writing a book outside of her Inspector Gamache series, but her co-author was Hillary Clinton, I was excited. I assumed I would like the book but how would her writing translate from a cozy…

  • Dear Child

    Dear Child

    Woo boy was this book a roller coaster.  My family and friends know that I scare easily which is one of the reasons I don’t like horror movies.  It’s also one of the reasons I sometimes have to stop reading a book when the sun sets and the shadows start to look like creepy things…

  • Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind

    While reading this book, I kept thinking, “did Rumaan Alam think his book would be so timely when he was writing it?”  The topics of race, class, and family would have been enough to make this a very 2020 book but how could anyone have known that a book that discussed those topics AND a…

  • 11/22/63

    11/22/63

    Readers, I have something to confess… I am a librarian who has never read a Stephen King book.  Shocking, I know.  In my defense, I am not a horror fan and anything I read or consume that is even remotely horror is very specific (I know what I can handle.)  But Mr. King has written…