Review: Bye, Baby

Features: -Explores themes of toxic friendship, trauma bonding, motherhood, and growing apart. -Starts at the climax -Complicated characters coming to terms with their choices -Multiple character perspectives Billie and Cassie have always been inseparable…until they weren’t. This book about two women growing apart had me captivated from the start. Though there was definitely plenty of

Review: The Bad Ones

Features: “Goddess, Goddess, count to one, who will you pick when the day is done?” With a story centered around local urban legends and a double dutch rhyme, this book really delivers on the creepy vibes. Despite being a bit of a slow burn, I found I just couldn’t put it down. An uncanny feeling

We’re All Lying

Type: Psychological Thriller, Mystery Date of Publication: March 14, 2023 Links: Goodreads / Bookshop / Amazon / Storygraph Content Warnings: Infidelity This domestic thriller is a quick read with emotional tension right from the start. Told from multiple perspectives, this story is full of drama and intrigue. Despite the layers of deception and number of

Review: Better the Blood

Date of Publication: August 18, 2022 Type: Mystery, Thriller, Serial Murder Links: Goodreads / Bookshop / Libro.fm / Amazon / Storygraph Tying New Zealand’s dark colonial past to the social injustices of the present, this race to stop a serial killer becomes about much more than keeping the streets of Auckland safe. As someone unfamiliar

Review: How to Survive Everything

Date of Publication: March 01, 2021 (EU), November 15, 2022 (USA) Type: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, Thriller Links: Goodreads / Bookshop / Libro.fm / Storygraph Content Warnings: Self Harm, Graphic Injury, Kidnapping, Confinement, Mental Health, Pandemic, Gaslighting, Toxic Relationship, Suicide (Attempt) Honestly, this one was a miss for me. The concept had all the

Review: The Last Book You’ll Ever Read

Date of Publication: September 20, 2022 Type: Graphic Novel, Supernatural, Horror, Thriller Content Warnings: Nudity, Sex, Gore, Death, Dismemberment, Graphic Violence, Animal Death Links: Goodreads/Bookshop I have to admit, this horror graphic novel had me scratching my head a bit. I love the art style and the premise definitely drew me in. The beginning is

Review: Abandon Us

Author: E.T. Gunnarsson Date of Publication: June 21, 2022 Type: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, LGBTQIA+ CW: Male-Male Sexual Content, Deadly Pandemic (explicit), Death (explicit), Violence (explicit) Links: Goodreads/Discovery This dark, post-apocalyptic novel paints a bleak picture of the future as one couple tries to survive a dying world. The suffocating atmosphere and increasingly violent society Gunnarsson

Review: Beneath the Dark

Author: Ian Backhouse Synopsis For most, the islands are a vacation destination. But for a lucky few, they are home. Museum owner Frank Bernie is just locking up for the night when he thinks he hears someone break in. What was once a routine night becomes a terrifying episode that leaves Frank seriously injured and

Review: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Date of Publication: March 29, 2022 (Australia), January 17, 2023 (US) Type: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Links: Goodreads / Bookshop / Libro.fm / Storygraph As soon as I read the prologue of this book, I knew I was in for a good time. Reliable narrator Ernest Cunningham (Ern) fully delivers in the dark humor and the