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    • Contemporary
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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Body Next Door | Maia Chance

    / September 5, 2024

    I was excited to read The Body Next Door because it promised to deliver some salacious content. I would say it’s unexpected! The cult storyline is mentioned but is much more prominent than…

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  • Book Review,  Horror,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley

    / July 14, 2024

    This is a spoiler-free review of Lucy Foley’s The Midnight Feast. If you are looking to unpack the book and have that ending explained, head over to my spoiler-review of The Midnight Feast…

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  • Book Review,  Horror,  Mystery

    Book Review: Indian Burial Ground | Nick Medina

    / April 13, 2024

    While horror isn’t my usual genre, I’ll wade into it for the right book. Things I usually look for if I’m thinking of reading a horror book include an interesting premise (duh), a…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Horror

    Horror Book Review: Island Witch | Amanda Jayatissa

    / March 6, 2024

    Amanda Jayatissa’s latest novel, Island Witch is an atmospheric, gothic horror novel set in the 19th century in Sri Lanka. A tense story about a young woman and the truths she uncovers about…

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  • Book Review,  Horror,  Literary Fiction,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Little Darlings | Melanie Golding

    / July 24, 2020

    Eerie, innovative, and at times bleak, Little Darlings by Melanie Golding is the type of book that will get into your head. I wouldn’t consider this a psychological thriller in the traditional sense…

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  • Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    Book Review: The Hollows | Jess Montgomery

    / January 29, 2020

    I remember when Jess Montgomery’s first book in this series The Widows came out and the book world was abuzz with praise for it. I missed out when it was first published, but…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Au Pair | Emma Rous

    / January 8, 2019

    Even deeply buried secrets have a way of coming out. It takes only a small thread of information to unravel a tightly woven web of lies. And when we find those threads, it’s…

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Mackenzie Harms is the owner and author of all content of the PhDiva book blog

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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