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  • Watching You is a gripping psychological thriller by Lisa Jewell with a great twist. The cover is green and shows plants, and the book is on a green background.
    Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Watching You | Lisa Jewell

    / December 26, 2018

    Intelligent, suspenseful, and shocking—my first experience reading the incredible Lisa Jewell blew my mind!!! There are times when an author is hyped up (for good reason), but I feel a small sense of…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: For Better and Worse | Margot Hunt

    / December 11, 2018

    Hold on while I pick my jaw up off the floor and wait for my heart rate to slow—because this book really did a NUMBER on me in the BEST possible way!!! Reading…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Liar’s Wife | Samantha Hayes

    / November 23, 2018

    Dark and entrancing, Samantha Hayes’ The Liar’s Wife is like reading someone’s worst nightmare unfold on the pages! I couldn’t believe what was happening to Ella, and I couldn’t wait to find out…

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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,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Warning | Kathryn Croft

    / October 12, 2018

    Twisted and deceptive—that is how I describe Kathryn Croft characters. And I don’t just mean the villain. Kathryn Croft writes about people and her novels are character-driven above all else. How do ordinary…

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  • Book Review,  Suspense,  Thriller

    Book Review: In Her Shadow | Mark Edwards

    / October 8, 2018

    Eerie, unsettling, and intense—I have come to look forward to the new Mark Edwards books the way I look forward to Fridays or crawling in bed after a long day. They are always…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Lies We Told | Camilla Way

    / October 5, 2018

    Compulsive, chilling, twisted—The Lies We Told was my first experience with Camilla Way’s writing and it blew my mind!! I must admit that for the first 75% of this novel, I had no…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: Malice | Jennifer Jaynes

    / September 25, 2018

    Unputdownable—this book shows how quickly a perfect life can unravel. You will start the book thinking you know where it is heading, and then you will find yourself at the end with a…

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  • Lies by T. M. Logan is a twist filled psychological thriller
    Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Thriller

    Book Review: Lies | T. M. Logan

    / September 11, 2018

    Twisted, dark, heart-wrenching, deceptive, distorted fun—do not start this book if you don’t have time to stay up late into the night reading it! Lies by T. M. Logan is that hard to…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Believe Me | J. P. Delaney

    / July 24, 2018

    A dark and twisted thriller that lured me into the story and captured my thoughts until the very last page! There is no one in the psychological thriller genre who can write such…

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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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