Always With a Book

k2reader March 28, 2024

This Isn’t Going to End Well by Daniel Wallace #bookreview #audiobook

Thank Algonquin Books, #partner for the finished copy of This Isn’t Going to End Well in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Algonquin Books / Hachette Audio Published: March 26, 2024 – Paperback Release Summary: In this powerful memoir, the bestselling author of Big Fish tries to come to terms with the life and death of his multi-talented longtime friend and brother-in-law, who…

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k2reader March 27, 2024

Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the finished copy of Expiration Dates in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: March 19, 2024 Summary: Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all. From the New York Times bestselling author of In…

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k2reader March 26, 2024

Black Wolf by Juan Gomez-Jurado #bookreview #series

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Black Wolf in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 12, 2024 Summary: Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes…

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k2reader March 23, 2024

Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Kill for Me, Kill for You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: March 19, 2024 Summary: For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink. One dark evening…

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k2reader March 22, 2024

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Simon and Schuster Audio, for the ALC and Mary Sue Rucci Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Storm We Made in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: S&S/Mary Sue Rucci Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: January 2, 2024 Summary: A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—and the shocking consequences that…

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k2reader March 21, 2024

Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, MIRA, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of Only One Survives in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA Published: July 16, 2024 Summary: Becoming the star is easier when the rest of your band is dead… All drummer Vienna Taylor ever wanted was to make music. If that came with fame, she’d take it—as long as her best friend, guitarist Madison Pierce, was sharing the…

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k2reader March 20, 2024

Lilith by Eric Rickstad #bookreview

Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Lilith in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: March 19, 2024 Summary: From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New York Times Thriller of the Year—comes Lilith, an incendiary powerhouse of a novel that strikes straight at the wounded heart of America. After her son…

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k2reader March 18, 2024

The Stranger at Black Lake by Christina McDonald #bookreview #series

Thank you Intrigue Ink Publishing / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Stranger at Black Lake in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Intrigue Ink Publishing Published: March 19, 2024 Summary: Secrets, murder and revenge converge in this gripping prequel to Amazon charts bestselling thriller, These Still Black Waters, about a young Jess Lambert drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. Because old ghosts often have old scores…

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k2reader March 15, 2024

What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan #bookreview

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Happened to Nina? in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 26, 2024 Summary: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name. Nina and…

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k2reader March 14, 2024

Don’t Forget Me by Rea Frey #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Netgalley, #partner, for an advanced ALC of Don’t Forget Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: March 1, 2024 Summary: When a body is presumed to be her missing husband’s, a woman must unravel the secrets of her own past to clear her name, find the truth, and put her conscience to rest once and for all. All Ruby wanted…

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k2reader March 13, 2024

Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Becoming Madam Secretary in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: March 12, 2024 Summary: She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised…

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k2reader March 13, 2024

Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Still See You Everywhere in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 12, 2024 Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner comes a harrowing new thriller: Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world…

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k2reader March 13, 2024

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fom / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Listen for the Lie in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered…

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k2reader March 12, 2024

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd #bookreview #audiobook #blogtour

Thank Algonquin Books, #partner for the finished copy of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Algonquin Books / Hachette Audio Published: February 27, 2024 – Paperback Release Summary: A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the survival skills that led to her freedom. My family prepared…

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k2reader March 11, 2024

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of No One Can Know in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 23, 2024 Summary: The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn’t told her husband much about her past. He knows…

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k2reader March 10, 2024

The Gimlet Slip by Fiona Davis and Greg Wands #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of The Gimlet Slip in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: A headstrong, fast-driving young woman gets pulled into a dangerous bootlegging scheme in this thrilling novella set in glamorous and gritty Prohibition-era New York City, written in an exciting collaboration between bestselling and critically acclaimed authors Fiona Davis and Greg Wands. New…

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k2reader March 10, 2024

The Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg #bookreview #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Harper Collins Published: March 10, 2016 Summary: SEE NO EVIL It’s January in the peaceful seaside resort of Fjällbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn’t manage to stop. HEAR NO EVIL The victim, a girl who went missing four months ago,…

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k2reader March 9, 2024

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Libro.fm/Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice―the fiercely anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend…

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k2reader March 9, 2024

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb #bookreview #audiobook #bookclubbook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: May 18, 2021 Summary: The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect…

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k2reader March 7, 2024

The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White #bookreview

Thank you to MB Communications, Montlake, #partner, for the finished copy of The Unquiet Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Montlake Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of friends—in a riveting novel by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Maid’s Diary. When human bones are…

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k2reader March 7, 2024

Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa #bookreview

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Island Witch in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: February 20, 2023 Summary: Inspired by Sri Lankan folklore, award-winning author Amanda Jayatissa turns her feverish, Gothic-tinged talents to late 19th century Sri Lanka where the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been…

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k2reader March 6, 2024

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl #bookreview

Thank you @thoughtsfromapage/Random House #partner, for the advanced copy of The Paris Novel in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Random House Published: April 30, 2024 Summary: Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Paris in this dazzling, heartfelt novel Stella reached for an oyster, tipped her head and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so…

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k2reader March 5, 2024

Month in Review: February 2024

Well, here we are again! Even with the extra day, February seemed to go by in a snap…but at least it was a month filled with some great reads and I cannot complain about that! I’m still behind in my reviews as I was out of town a few times, but I’m hoping this month is a little quieter and I can catch up…we’ll see how that plays out.…

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k2reader February 27, 2024

The Resort by Sara Ochs #bookreview

Thank you @ScaredStraightReads/Sourcebooks Landmark #partner, for the finished copy of The Resort in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: A searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down. Welcome to paradise. We hope you survive your stay… There are three rules…

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k2reader February 25, 2024

Lethal Vengeance by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Lethal Vengeance in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Raven Street Publishing / Raven Street Publishing Published: February 8, 2024 Summary: The man lay on his front, his arms and legs bound and pulled up with a rope connecting the two. His head was arched back, so he faced the curtains, and…

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k2reader February 25, 2024

The Guest by B.A. Paris #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 20, 2024 Summary: New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets…

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k2reader February 25, 2024

Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny Hollander #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world’s eyes on her, Charlie…

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k2reader February 24, 2024

Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Only If You’re Lucky in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 16, 2024 SUMMARY: Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in…

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k2reader February 22, 2024

A Lovely Lie by Jaime Lynn Hendricks #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Scarlet, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of A Lovely Lie in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scarlet Published: May 28, 2024 Summary: Is it better to believe a lovely lie or to know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior picnic, Scarlett Russo and her best friend Pepper were involved in a car accident that left two of their classmates dead. Afterward,…

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k2reader February 21, 2024

What Is Mine by Lyn Liao Butler #bookreview

Thank you @GetRedPrBooks/Thomas & Mercer #partner, for the advanced copy of What Is Mine in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: The search for a missing boy entwines the lives of two desperate women. One seeks redemption for her sister; the other will do anything for the love of her life. Hope Chen and her husband are raising her nine-year-old nephew,…

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k2reader February 18, 2024

The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill #bookreview

Thank you Harper Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Turtle House in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: February 20, 2024 Summary: Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.”—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an…

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k2reader February 18, 2024

The Woman Inside by M.T. Edvardsson #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Woman Insider in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 13, 2023 Summary: A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside. Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide…

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k2reader February 15, 2024

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita #bookreview #blogtour #bookseries

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Village in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: February 13, 2023 Summary: Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder–and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One…

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k2reader February 13, 2024

The Mountain King by Anders de la Motte #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Mountain King in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 30, 2024 Summary: This atmospheric and sinister mystery, perfect for fans of the Nordic thrillers of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, follows an overachieving female inspector investigating the darkest side of humanity.…

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k2reader February 12, 2024

Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner, for the finished copy of Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 16, 2024 Summary: An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her sister When Maude Horton receives a letter…

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k2reader February 11, 2024

The Amish Wife by Gregg Olsen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Jennifer Musico, PR / Thomas Mercer #partner, for the finished copy of The Amish Wife in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: January 1, 2024 Summary: The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in…

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k2reader February 11, 2024

The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise Kennedy reveals how ordinary lives can get caught up in a wider, national drama. Sarah, abandoned by her partner, sits alone in their brand new house. Orla, facing the strange revenge of her husband, is…

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k2reader February 8, 2024

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: January 23, 2024 Summary: Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother…

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k2reader February 7, 2024

A Soul for a Soul by Carol Wyer #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC of A Soul for a Soul in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: February 20, 2024 Summary: The syndicate have taken everything from her. It’s time to take them down—or die trying. DCI Kate Young never meant to shoot Superintendent John Dickson at the reservoir that night—even if, as a scheming corrupt cop and head of the shady syndicate, he…

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k2reader February 7, 2024

When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you Libro.fm / Harper Audio, for the ALC and Harper, #partner, for an advanced copy of When We Were Bright and Beautiful in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper / Harper Audio Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet–an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan’s glittering Upper East Side, that explores the…

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k2reader February 6, 2024

Month in Review: January 2024

Once again, January felt like both it lasted forever and flew by! While I got off to a great start with reading and was doing pretty good with keeping up with my reviews, a family emergency derailed everything. I’m now playing catch-up, but fortunately everything is ok. This is looking to be another year of really good reads and I am excited to share them all with you. I…

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k2reader January 23, 2024

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: March 28, 2023 Summary: Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He…

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k2reader January 22, 2024

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Pegasus Crime Published: September 6, 2022 Summary: A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. “Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.” Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife,…

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k2reader January 20, 2024

Here in Avalon by Tara Isabella Burton #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and SimonBooksBuddies / Simon and Schuster / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Here in Avalon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 2, 2024 Summary: A New York City fairy tale about two sisters that fall under the spell of an underworld cabaret troupe that might be a…

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k2reader January 19, 2024

Never Trust the Husband by Jessica Payne #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Never Trust the Husband in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: You look so happy in your wedding photo, gazing at your perfect new husband, glass of champagne held high in a toast. You chose to ignore the warning signs, but he hid more than one secret from you. And…

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k2reader January 15, 2024

The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites / Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Silence in Her Eyes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 16, 2024 Summary: This fresh take on classic psychological suspense centers on a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to…

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k2reader January 15, 2024

One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall #bookreview

Thank you Zando Projects / Gillian Flynn Books / Netgalley, #partner for the advanced e-copy of One of the Good Guys in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gillian Flynn Books Published: January 9, 2024 Summary: If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He…

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k2reader January 14, 2024

You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal #bookreview #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Harper Published: January 10, 2023 Summary: Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as “Nordic noir at its best.” In the small mining town of Malmberget, north of the Arctic…

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k2reader January 13, 2024

Coming to Find You by Jane Corry #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Doubleday Canada for the ALC and Penguin Random House Canada / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Coming to Find you in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada / Doubleday Canada Published: December 19, 2023 Summary: A heart-stopping psychological thriller about a woman running from the aftermath of a gruesome family tragedy–and also from the truth about her part in…

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k2reader January 10, 2024

Northwoods by Amy Pease #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Northwoods in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 9, 2024 Summary: The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic in this unputdownable and thrilling debut that…

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