Beautiful World, Where Are You is Sally Rooney’s latest release, which has book clubs abuzz with excitement or irritation, depending on how you feel about her. She’s become somewhat of a controversial figure with some people absolutely loving her bleak modern-day romances and others bemoaning her writing and angrily denouncing what they view as an …
Verity by Colleen Hoover was published a few years ago, but has continued to be pretty popular since then. Hoover is primarily known for her romance and YA novels, but Verity is more of a thriller-mystery romance. In Verity, Lowen Ashley is a writer who is hired to write the last three novels in a …
Chapter 1 In Manhattan, Lowen Ashleigh sees a man get hit by a truck, and the blood splashes on her. A man, Jeremy Crawford, helps her into the nearby coffee shop to get cleaned up. He offers her his shirt since hers is bloodied. Jeremy tells her that his 8-year-old drowned in a lake five …
I had decided I was going to take a break from reading Stephen King novels (for no particular reason other than feeling like I’d read quite a few of them lately), but then everyone was saying how great Billy Summers is and so I felt like had to check it out for myself. So, here …
Chapter 1 Billy Summers, 44, goes to meet with Nick Majarian, accompanied by some of Nick’s men, Frank “Frankie” Macintosh and Paulie Logan. They are in a run-down yellow house in a small town called Midwood just east of the Mississippi. Billy is a sniper and former Iraq War vet who has been working as …
