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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Psychological Thriller Review: I’m Not Done With You Yet | Jesse Q Sutanto

    / December 18, 2023

    Jesse Q Sutanto’s first psychological thriller, I’m Not Done With You Yet, tops my list of best books of 2023. This psychological thriller has everything I could want—a dark academia setting, a story…

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  • How Can I Help You by Laura Sims and the audiobook narrated by Carlotta Brentan and Maggi-Meg Reed
    Book Review,  Fiction,  Psychological Thriller

    Audiobook Review: How Can I Help You | Laura Sims

    / October 29, 2023

    Laura Sims’ novel How Can I Help You is one of the most strangely, twisted, delightful books I’ve read lately! I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, and I was pleasantly surprised!…

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  • Home at Night is a mystery by Paula Munier set at an historic Vermont farm on Halloween
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: Home at Night | Paula Munier

    / October 21, 2023

    A perfect Halloween read set on an historic farm in Vermont full of dead poets, a mysterious letter, a rundown Victorian mansion, and a murder victim in a library. What more could you…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Plot I Jean Hanff Korelitz

    / July 10, 2021

    Who is the true owner of a story? How much of a story can be used before it becomes someone else’s? Without question The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz is one of the…

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  • Over Her Dead Body is a mystery book by Kate White that is part of her Bailey Weggins series, about a journalist who solves murders
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: Over Her Dead Body | Kate White | Bailey Weggins #4

    / April 21, 2019

    Back at it with my Kate White spotlight series, with my review of Over Her Dead Body, the fourth installment in the Bailey Weggins series. To backtrack, I’ve been doing a re-read of…

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  • A Body to Die for is the second mystery in the Kate White Bailey Weggins mystery series about a journalist who solves murders
    Book Review,  Mystery

    Book Review: A Body to Die For | Kate White | Bailey Weggins #2

    / January 14, 2019

    Welcome to my Kate White book review series! I am a huge fan of Kate White, and because I read many of her previous books before I started my blog, I decided to…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Review: Manuscript for Murder | Jon Land & Jessica Fletcher | Murder, She Wrote

    / November 2, 2018

    Clever and addictive, this newest installment in the Murder She Wrote mysteries by Jon Land will have you on the edge of your seat, unable to put this book down! I am one…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: Open Your Eyes | Paula Daly

    / October 15, 2018

    A compulsively-good, twisty thriller that will make you consider the nightmare a life can become following a single moment!!! This is my first Paula Daly and I had a blast reading Open Your…

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: When Life Gives You Lululemons Lauren Weisberger

    / May 22, 2018

    Everyone’s favorite ex-assistant Emily Charlton is back and just as sassy and confident as ever!! If any character deserves their own book, Emily would be among the top on my list! When Life…

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  • Book Review,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: When Never Comes | Barbara Davis

    / April 30, 2018

    Sometimes learning to let yourself be happy is the hardest lesson of all… Though the premise of this book may sounds like it veers towards thriller, it is anything but that—in a good…

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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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