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    The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell | Review

    August 25, 2020 /

    The House We Grew Up In.   A perfect starting bullet for discussion.  Do you remember yours?  Was it a happy home, full of laughter and fond memories?  Lisa Jewell introduces us to the concept that looks can be deceiving.  Everything can appear to be magnificent and charming on the outside but behind closed doors secrets can harbour and fester.  Even our memories can appear hazy, are they to be trusted?  An atmosphere seeped in darkness, tragedy that alters the course for everyone and a compulsion that could kill.  Jewell makes us understand frustrations, how hoarding is as much an addiction as alcoholism and just how it spirals out of control. …

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    Keeper was one of those books that had the premise of being outstanding, but it didn’t work for me for several different reasons.  Firstly, the characterisation didn’t work in any aspect.  I didn’t feel connected or invested in their back stories or their end game.  This was a real shame because good characterisation is pretty much a deal breaker for me.  Like other readers, I went through bouts of anger and not the type that invoked such emotion that I was intertwined with the plot, the anger was for reasons that I will discuss below.  The main protagonists were so devoid of human kindness and emotion that I seriously wondered…

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    July 21, 2020 /

    A blog tour invitation for a Shari Lapena book is going to be an automatic yes, and The End Of Her was no different.  I don’t think I even read the synopsis properly before emailing back.  Some might think that was odd but knowing this author, I knew she would deliver and quite frankly I was in safe hands.  A sleep deprived mother already feeling on edge.  A face from the past.  Accusations that could have very serious implications for Stephanie and Patrick.  We have a knifes edge amount of tension and the plot has a rubix’s cube level of intricacy that made my brain hurt.  A woman from Patricks…

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    July 10, 2020 /

    Anyone that has stuck around this blog for any length of time knows that I’m an avid reader of psychological thriller but when a serious crime element is thrown in for good measure, you know I’m anyone’s.  It wasn’t necessarily the twist that I was waiting for that made Neon so good but the devilishly dark narrative that the plot took on from the very first page. Not only is the death of a spouse a traumatic event, but for it to have been a targeted attack by the man you are actively investigating is a blow professionally and personally.  I greedily accepted the blog tour invitation for Neon like…

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    July 8, 2020 /

    The Eyes of Darkness.  A title that gave me chills as I inhaled this spectacular, genre busting novel.  A government whose role it is meant to be to protect the citizens of their country.  They aren’t meant to cover up a catastrophic accident and keep a grieving mother from finding out the true cause of her sons’ demise.  This novel is the best example at highlighting that the human condition is the real monsters lurking in the dark.  Their penchant for control, devastation and blood thirsty violence is the main theme played throughout.  Sounds intriguing, right?  The Eyes of Darkness was magnetic.  Every time I put the book down to…

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    June 30, 2020 /

    I hope you are all ready to sit in the corner and rock your way through this review.  Inside, looked like the poster for the latest horror movie – this apt title hides the deeper meaning to the story.  Huge revelations, relationships pulled so taut that they threaten to snap.  This book has you standing on the precipice of hell, the flames threatening to lick at your heels, the heat seducing you within.  A house is just bricks and mortar, right?  Ha! the house was built with the devils’ hands, each brick more evil than the last.  The house embodies a threatening shadow using your fears to destroy and weaken you.  Don’t rely on your…

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