Tag: thriller
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Review: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
*I received an ALC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Sarah Gailey returns with a haunted house thriller that is perfect for summer. When Vera returns home to assist her dying mother, she must face the things that happened when she lived in the home with her serial…
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Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating : 3.5 Blake Crouch returns with another scifi thriller, Upgrade. Readers follow Logan, a geneticist by education in a near-future where no private industry geneticists are allowed. Logan’s mother was a geneticist as well, and her actions…
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Review: Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Marie Rutkoski’s adult debut, Real Easy, delves into the backstage of a strip club. The story is told in multiple perspectives and discusses the day to day happenings of the club as well as an ongoing double…
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Review: The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 CJ Tudor returns with her newest thriller The Burning Girls. Jack is a vicar who has had recent tragedy in her chapel, so there is a chance for a fresh start with reassignment to a small…
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Review: The June Boys by Court Stevens
4 stars **I received a galley of the audiobook from the publisher through NetGalley.** Court Stevens tells the story of The June Boys through her story about the investigation into the criminal known as the Gemini Thief. On June 1, boys are taken from somewhere in Tennessee. They are kept for a year and the…
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Review: Don’t Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
**spoiler alert** **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Kirsten Miller presents a YA mystery thriller in Don’t Tell a Soul. Readers follow Bram, a troubled girl going to live with her uncle in the country after something has happened to make her leave…
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Review: Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Andrea Contos’ Throwaway Girls is a stunning mystery thriller surrounding one missing girl who everyone wants home, and the other missing girls who were forgotten. The reader follows Caroline, a queer teenager who is just trying to…
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Review: All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Emily Arsenault’s second YA novel, All the Pretty Things, is part slice of life, part mystery, and part hard-hitting contemporary. Readers follow Ivy Cork whose father owns a doughnut franchise and amusement park. When a local kid…
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Review: People of the Lake by Nick Scorza
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 stars People of the Lake is a YA mystery which borders a bit into suspense and thriller. Redmarch Lake was once a thriving tourist town, but now it is weighed down by secrets and unfriendly to…
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Review: Silo Boys by Amy-Brooke Odell
4 stars ** I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Amy-Brooke Odell’s debut novel, Silo Boys, was an engaging YA mystery/thriller that captured the atmosphere of South Carolina. In Silo Boys, the reader follows Addy, a recent high school graduate as she attempts to come to terms…
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