The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Hardcover, 325 pages February 5, 2019, Celadon Books The Silent Patient opens with an alluring premise: a beautiful, successful painter lives a perfect life with the man she loves...until the day he comes home late from a photo shoot and she shoots him five times in the face before … Continue reading March Book Review Club: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Suicide Club by Rachel Heng Hardcover, 352 pages 31 July 2018, Henry Holt and Co. Rating: 4 / 5 stars The America that is portrayed in this novel is a place where your worth is determined at birth by what genes you carry, and whether you will be chosen to receive the life-extending maintenance … Continue reading The Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center Hardcover, 320 pages 15 May 2018, St. Martin's Press Rating: 4 / 5 stars A plane crash has left Margaret with a life she doesn't recognize. Is Chip her fiancé or isn't he? What exactly is her prognosis? Why does her mother insist on redecorating her hospital room? … Continue reading How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
I love Bohjalian's storytelling and this book was no different. It tells the story of family struggling to keep themselves together after the unexpected disappearance of the mother, who was a sleepwalker and who left their house one night and never returned. While the police attempt to locate her, the eldest daughter takes over her … Continue reading The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan Hardcover, 203 pages 1 May 2018, Arcade / Skyhorse Publishing Rating: 5 / 5 stars The opening of this book drew me in. There was a compelling line in the Prologue - "Do you believe in ghosts? Because that's really where it begins, with belief. We glimpse or experience … Continue reading The Dead House by Billy O’Callaghan
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Hardcover, 304 pages May 10, 2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Not quite horror but more than just a mystery or historical fiction, The Loney is certainly a Gothic something. Filled with descriptions of grey skies and bleak seascapes, the Loney is more than a setting; it becomes a character itself. A desolate stretch of … Continue reading April Book Review Club: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Bloom Hardcover, 304 pages 6 March 2016, St. Martin's Press Rating: 4 / 5 stars Eric, Emily and Guy are friends and Coincidence Makers. They have completed an extensive course to teach them how to gain a deep understanding of cause and effect, how to make people choose one path … Continue reading The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Bloom
White Houses by Amy Bloom Hardcover, 240 pages 13 February 2018, Random House Rating: 3 / 5 stars This is a work historical fiction that focuses on the life of Lorena HIckock and the love of her life, Eleanor Roosevelt. Bloom takes on the task of bringing life to the letters written between the two … Continue reading White Houses by Amy Bloom
I Recommend This Book...Strongly This novel is firmly placed in the middle of our modern concern of Russian involvement in American lives, but it also works on a deeper level as a novel of marriage and children, work and the hard choices parents have to make in order to do the right things - … Continue reading Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner Hardcover, 400 pages June 28, 2016, Random House I'm always excited at the prospect of a character-driven police procedural (especially if it's British) and Missing, Presumed did not disappoint. The plot centers around a young woman who has gone missing after a night of carousing at her local university pub. Not an … Continue reading October Book Review Club: Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
