I love Kevin Wilson and thought this had a fantastic start and a good balance between moving + funny bits for a while… but then it got very slow and mI love Kevin Wilson and thought this had a fantastic start and a good balance between moving + funny bits for a while… but then it got very slow and meandering and the ending was very meh for me. I wouldn’t discourage anyone from reading this because Wilson is super talented - just not my favorite by him (which would be Nothing to See Here).
* Thanks to Ecco for the NetGalley review copy. RUN FOR THE HILLS publishes May 13, 2025...more
I love this series. Moehling has delivered another breakneck twisty procedural plot with excellent, well-developed characters - and book three provideI love this series. Moehling has delivered another breakneck twisty procedural plot with excellent, well-developed characters - and book three provided a great wrap up to the mystery of Packard’s missing brother. Fingers crossed that there will be more books because I’m guessing this town has a lot more secrets to reveal!
* thanks to Poisoned Pen for the NetGalley review copy. Long Time Gone published February 4, 2025....more
This wasn’t quite as bananas as None of This is True (but really, what could be?), but it was close. There was so much lying and uncomfortable tensionThis wasn’t quite as bananas as None of This is True (but really, what could be?), but it was close. There was so much lying and uncomfortable tension - it was making me increasingly anxious the whole time I was reading (which fortunately wasn’t long because I TORE through this).
As the reader getting multiple perspectives you figure out the broad strokes of what’s going on pretty quickly, but there’s always something else to be revealed, and there are some real doozies.
Another twisty, unhinged winner from Jewell!
* thanks so much to Atria Books for the NetGalley review copy. DON’T LET HIM IN publishes June 24, 2025. ...more
This sounded like it was going to be really cool, and I tried to love it, but it read like a Scooby-Doo spec script.
Spooky en(( audiobook ))
DNF at 54%
This sounded like it was going to be really cool, and I tried to love it, but it read like a Scooby-Doo spec script.
Spooky entities haunting mirrors and books and a box, a haunted escape room, a stalker ex, a dumb friend that cries every single time she’s around spooooooooky stuff (but still comes to every spooooooky outing with her friend who is a paranormal investigator?), a vampire cosplay guy/cult leader, a dead sister, and it’s all maybe going to be tied to a massacre? This was a mess, and I give up.
* thanks to Macmillan Audio for the NetGalley review copy. This publishes in March 2025. ...more
Downloaded this from NetGalley because I’m a sucker for a Scott Brick-narrated action thriller. This lived up to my expectations — some(( audiobook ))
Downloaded this from NetGalley because I’m a sucker for a Scott Brick-narrated action thriller. This lived up to my expectations — some cringey “men being men” dialogue, some fun surprises, a lot of shooting stuff, with a side of wildfires. Thoroughly enjoyable and made me want to listen to more books by Hood!
* thanks to Blackstone Audio for the review copy. BURN OUT published in August 2024. ...more
This got a little repetitious having to hear the same events from multiple perspectives, but it kept me entertained enough with some fu(( audiobook ))
This got a little repetitious having to hear the same events from multiple perspectives, but it kept me entertained enough with some fun twists — until the ending, which I didn’t like at all.
* thanks to Macmillan Audio for the NetGalley audio copy. The Business Trip publishes January 14. ...more
This was a hot mess. I already forgot the details other than being extremely annoyed by the ending. I really liked his book about the BlockbY.I.K.E.S.
This was a hot mess. I already forgot the details other than being extremely annoyed by the ending. I really liked his book about the Blockbuster murders, but his other ones have been… not my favorite. I think Finlay may not be for me (but seems to have ended up in my Riley Sager / FMcF FOMO club where I know I will keep reading their books anyway because the premises are so good). ...more
This was a perfect audiobook to keep me entertained through the tedium of Thanksgiving grocery shopping (the worst) and the fun of baki(( audiobook ))
This was a perfect audiobook to keep me entertained through the tedium of Thanksgiving grocery shopping (the worst) and the fun of baking pies (the best).
Influencer insanity + toxic friendships + some solid snark + delightfully unlikeable characters = loved it.
* thanks so much to Berkley for the NetGalley review copy which I foolishly did not read before this published in August and ended up getting the audio from Hoopla. ...more
Two serial killers (Hazel & Fox) who were individually targeting terrible men accidentally meet, fall in love, jet around Europe killing a bunch of crTwo serial killers (Hazel & Fox) who were individually targeting terrible men accidentally meet, fall in love, jet around Europe killing a bunch of creeps together, get married, have a baby, move to the suburbs, and then everything falls apart.
I loved the premise (one of my faves — I can never pass up some sweet, sweet vigilante justice and adding in some hints of romcom - the dream!), but the plot was 99% based on miscommunication, which is pretty much my least favorite thing ever. All of the back and forth of keeping secrets and rather ineptly sneaking around got very tedious and made the middle third or so of the book drag. If you two dummies are so madly in love…. Just. Have. A. Conversation. Blargh.
There were some very funny lines and a healthy dose of snark throughout, and I thought the ending was great, but it overall didn’t quite live up to what I was hoping for.
(2.5 rounded up)
* thank you to Bantam for the NetGalley review copy. A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage publishes in January 2025. ...more
I cannot believe I’m saying this about a Katherine Center book, but I hated this so much, I had to quit. Maybe (most likely not) I’ll pick DNF @ 66%.
I cannot believe I’m saying this about a Katherine Center book, but I hated this so much, I had to quit. Maybe (most likely not) I’ll pick it back up again at some point, but the Big Conflict that appeared to keep the love interests apart was extremely off-putting and archaic and felt gross. And the FMC’s body image and history of disordered eating was… confusingly handled. I can’t nail down *exactly* what was giving me the ick so badly, but something felt very off about pretty much everything.
Center will always be an auto-read author for me, but this book was a total miss/mess/hard pass.
* thank you to St Martin’s Press for the NetGalley review copy. The Love Haters publishes in May 2025. ...more
This is book two of the Revival series, and I highly recommend listening to or reading the (( audiobook ))
Great narration by Scott Brick (of course)!
This is book two of the Revival series, and I highly recommend listening to or reading the first one ahead of time or there will be a lot of things that don’t make sense.
This felt on-par with book one with the somewhat confusing world building - like there was a collapse and everything fell apart, and people are starving and everything is chaos, but there’s a still a zoo? And you can buy a burner phone? And satellites are still in orbit? - it all feels a little too conveniently inconsistent for me. I did really appreciate that the FMC Rachel was much less of a dithering dingdong this time around.
Overall, this was entertaining enough with some fun surprises along the way, and I’d definitely listen to a third book to see where it goes next.
* thanks to Macmillan Audio for the NetGalley audiobook. Cold Storage publishes in January 2025. ...more
I’m always a fan of Lucy Foley’s books, and think they’re especially good on audio. This was fast-paced and engaging, with excellent na(( audiobook ))
I’m always a fan of Lucy Foley’s books, and think they’re especially good on audio. This was fast-paced and engaging, with excellent narration and some truly delulu characters who were a joy to hate. Highly recommend!
* thanks to William Morrow for the NetGalley review copy (even though I did not read it in a timely fashion & ended up borrowing the audio from Hoopla). ...more
Yikes. This was a mess. There were (maybe?) some time jumps in the story? Or maybe it was just super disjointed in addition to being bo(( audiobook ))
Yikes. This was a mess. There were (maybe?) some time jumps in the story? Or maybe it was just super disjointed in addition to being boring? The novella length did this no favors - maybe with some extra pages I could have possibly started to give half a shit about any of these awful characters (?) While the setup was cool and there were a few solidly gross moments, 98% of the book was about Amara being obsessively possessive of Vinh and nothing much happening, so comparing this to an SA Barnes space horror is like comparing Chuck E Cheese to Alinea.
* I had a NetGalley copy of this from Tor Nightfire, but ended up listening to an audio version from Hoopla....more
I loved Burke’s debut, Fly With Me, and was super thrilled to read another book set in that universe (for my fellow FWM fans, there are some Olive camI loved Burke’s debut, Fly With Me, and was super thrilled to read another book set in that universe (for my fellow FWM fans, there are some Olive cameos)! Dylan and Derek (honestly my only beef is that both names start with D, and it took me a second to keep them straight in my head) were vulnerable and cute (and hot) and I loved them both.
I really enjoy the emotional processing her characters do on their way to finding love, but it’s always tempered with enough silliness to keep it entertaining and not maudlin— she reminds me of Abby Jimenez in that way — I’m already looking forward to reading whatever Burke writes next!
* thanks to St Martin’s Griffin for the NetGalley review copy....more
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