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    • Contemporary
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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction

    Book Review: Clickbait | Holly Baxter

    / January 12, 2025

    Journalists are meant to cover the news, not to be the news. Unfortunately Natasha finds herself on the wrong side of this equation in Holly Baxter’s Clickbait. Don’t let the cute cover and title…

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  • Book Review,  Literary Fiction,  Mystery,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder | Kerryn Mayne

    / August 28, 2024

    I expected a cozy mystery with a humorous side that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder is much deeper than that. I found this to be a…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction,  Romance

    Book Review: Lovers and Liars | Amanda Eyre Ward

    / May 10, 2024

    I grabbed this book without even reading what it’s about based on the sunny yellow cover and trio of redheads. It ended up being such a cute book! In New York Times bestselling…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Good Half Gone | Tarryn Fisher

    / May 3, 2024

    Tarryn Fisher is another author with whom I have a complicated relationship in terms of their books (see Mary Kubica for the same issue). She crafts stories with an outstanding premise, and executes…

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  • Book Recommendations,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: Darling Girls | Sally Hepworth

    / April 19, 2024

    This is a spoiler-free review of Darling Girls. Are you looking for spoilers and the ending explained? Head over to the spoiler review where I unpack it all and that chilling final scene.…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: One of Us Knows | Alyssa Cole

    / April 17, 2024

    A genre-bending gothic thriller centered around a woman with dissociative identity disorder serving as the caretaker at a gothic estate, when she finds herself trapped on the island with a murderer. Chilling! Over…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Psychological Thriller Review: Nowhere Like Home | Sara Shepard

    / March 3, 2024

    Sara Shepard’s newest psychological thriller Nowhere Like Home explores female friendships and toxic relationships all surrounded by the glittering world of print media and a remote women’s commune. About the Book | Nowhere…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Thriller

    Book Review: Village in the Dark | Iris Yamashita

    / February 22, 2024

    A chilling (in more ways than one!) mystery centering around three strong female characters in the dark, cold winter in Alaska. Iris Yamashita’s Village in the Dark is the second book featuring the…

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  • Book Recommendations,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Recommendation: Homicide and Halo-Halo | Mia P Manansala | Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #2

    / August 21, 2023

    This is part two of my coverage of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries, which I am re-reading In anticipation of the upcoming fourth book by Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon. I read…

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  • Mini book review of They Fly Silent by Barb Lanell
    Book Review,  Fiction,  Gothic

    Mini Review: They Fly Silent | Barb Lanell

    / August 20, 2023

    With a southern gothic vibe and mystical undertones, They Fly Silent seemed like a book I would absolutely love. The book is very character-driven and I didn’t expect the context to be quite…

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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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