Category: Book reviews

My Girl by Jack Jordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This story follows Page, who lost her daughter 10 years previously, and more recently, her husband committed suicide. She’s gone off the rails, drinking herself to death, when she realises strange things are happening in her house. My Girl starts off great, with a…

The Darkest Lies by Barbara Copperthwaite Really great premise about a mother desperate for the truth after her daughter goes missing and is discovered beaten almost to death. Consumed with grief, Melanie decides she must find out what happened to her daughter, who did it, and why. But nobody in the village is talking. Wonderfully…

Don’t Wake Up by Liz Lawler Alex Taylor has been attacked, tied to an operating table and forced to make a choice. The only problem is nobody believes her. Eventually, Alex begins to think she’s losing her mind. Until she meets the next victim. A chilling psychological thriller about revenge, hatred and murder. View all…

A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena My rating: 5 of 5 stars A twisty thriller with an unexpected ending and an intricately planned plot, A Stranger in the House is my first by this author, and I really enjoyed it. Tom Krupp arrives home from work to find his wife, Karen, has left…

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida My rating: 5 of 5 stars Naoki uses an alphabet grid to construct words, sentences and thoughts that he can’t say out loud. You’ll find answers to questions like: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?”…

Last Seen Alive by Claire Douglas My rating: 5 of 5 stars It starts as a lesson in ‘if it looks to good to be true, it is,’ and builds suspense until a fantastic twist a little after midway through. Loads of surprises along the way, a well-meshed plot, fantastic characters, this was a completely…

Our Little Secret by Darren O’Sullivan A slow burner with an intriguing plot and a few twists in it to keep it moving. It’s an easy read and the author did a great job of making you root for the characters. View all my reviews

Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf My rating: 5 of 5 stars Such an intriguing idea to have the protagonist be deaf, and by an author who is a complete master! Amelia Winn has suffered a traumatic accident that made her go deaf, causing her to become an alcoholic and lose her husband and step-daughter.…

Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Back from Gilly Macmillan’s incredibly gripping debut, ‘What She Knew’, is Inspector Jim Clemo, freshly released from his requisite counselling and assigned a low priority case that quickly becomes high priority. Jim Clemo investigates when an unfortunate accident leaves Noah, a British boy…

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love books set in the Pacific Northwest, so I downloaded this book just because of that. I wasn’t disappointed. The story follows Naomi, a private investigator who has a knack for locating lost and missing children. Naomi has been asked to find…

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars You know when a book is so good you can’t stop reading, then when you finish it you can’t pick up another because it feels a little bit like cheating on the first book? That’s this book. Like Jason Bourne meets science, this sci-fi…

Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book totally blew me away. While it wasn’t an easy read (there are some stark themes and extreme emotions here), it was clever, intense and incredibly gripping. So much that I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after I put the…