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  • About PhDiva
    • About My Reviews
  • Book Spoilers
  • Book Reviews by Author
  • Book Reviews by Genre
    • Contemporary
    • Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Psychological Thriller
    • Romance
    • Suspense
    • Thriller
    • Women’s Fiction

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  • If I Disappear is a psychological thriller by Eliza Jane brazier featuring a strange woman who is obsessed with saving the host of her favorite podcast
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: If I Disappear | Eliza Jane Brazier

    / April 7, 2024

    I absolutely loved Eliza Jane Brazier’s third book, Good Rich People, so I wanted to go back and read her debut. One thing is certain, Brazier writes some of the most bizarre and…

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  • The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware is a tense, gothic, psychological thriller with a grey cover and a black key on it
    Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware

    / April 6, 2024

    Opening up a new Ruth Ware book has to be one of my favorite things ever. It’s like getting ready to eat a delicious meal or take a nap—the anticipation of something you…

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  • Murder Backstage is the 58th book in the Murder, She Wrote series featuring Jessica Fletcher
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Murder Backstage | Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran | Murder, She Wrote #58

    / April 6, 2024

    Jessica Fletcher knows a thing or two about solving mysteries, and so does her current co-writer Terrie Farley Moran! I never turn down a chance to sink back into Jessica Fletcher’s world in…

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  • Book Review,  Literary Fiction,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: End of Story | A. J. Finn

    / April 5, 2024

    Since his juggernaut of a debut, I think many of us have been looking forward to seeing what A. J. Finn would publish for his sophomore novel. Finn’s first book, The Woman in…

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  • Beach Read is a contemporary fiction book by Emily Henry that features a golden yellow cover with a man and a woman laying on beach towels side by side
    Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction,  Romance

    Book Review: Beach Read | Emily Henry

    / April 5, 2024

    Emily Henry’s new book Funny Story is about to debut later this month, and I (like many others) am impatiently waiting for my copy to arrive. Emily Henry has taken the book world…

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  • Book Review,  Non-fiction

    Non-fiction Book Review: The Exvangelicals | Sarah McCammon

    / April 4, 2024

    Part memoir and part journalistic investigation—Sarah McCammon’s The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church is a powerful and thought-provoking study of the growing social movement of people leaving the white…

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Literary Fiction,  Mystery

    Book Review: Nosy Neighbors | Freya Sampson

    / April 3, 2024

    Charming! Intriguing! Heartwarming! Freya Sampson’s Nosy Neighbors debuted this week and it was a breath of fresh air! If you are a fan of Fredrik Backman, you will LOVE this book. It had…

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  • When I'm Her is a 2024 speculative fiction psychological thriller narrated on audiobook
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Speculative Fiction

    Thriller Review: When I’m Her | Sarah Zachrich Jeng

    / April 2, 2024

    Sarah Zachrich Jeng’s newest speculative thriller When I’m Her will have your mind in a blender as you follow two women whose lives are so intertwined, they are able to change places. There…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction

    Book Review: The Husbands | Holly Gramazio

    / April 1, 2024

    Lauren is in her early thirties, single, and living in flat in south London when she arrives home drunk after a hen party and discovers a man named Michael who she’s never seen…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Psychological Thriller Review: The New Couple in 5B | Lisa Unger

    / March 30, 2024

    I’ve been a big fan of Lisa Unger since I read In the Blood. I’ve gone on to read most of her books and my favorites have been The Stranger Inside and Confessions…

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Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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