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The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2)

The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) is the second book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, a trilogy about a girl named El who attends a school of magic. To complicate matters, El has been prophesized to be a bringer of death and doom. The Last Graduate picks up right where the first book of the series, …

The Night She Disappeared: Recap & Summary

Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Epilogue The book opens by letting us know that Tallulah Murray suffers from arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and that she’s “in the dark”. Part I Chapters 1 – 5 June 2017. Kim Knox, 39, is watching her daughter Tallulah’s 1-year-old baby, Noah. Tallulah, 19, is …

The Night She Disappeared

The Night She Disappeared is mystery-thriller author Lisa Jewell’s latest offering, published recently in the UK and soon to be published on September 7 in the US. It involves the disappearance of a teenage couple, Tallulah Knox and Zach Allister, from a grand house situated next to the woods, set in a picturesque village in …

The Plot

If you love thrillers and books about books, then The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz might be right up your alley. Korelitz previously authored You Should Have Known which was adapted into the HBO Max limited series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman. In The Plot, Jake is a failed writer who steals the plot of …

The Plot: Recap & Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Part I Part II Part III Part IV Epilogue Part I Chapter 1: Anybody Can Be a Writer Jacob “Jake” Finch Bonner is an author who previously wrote a novel, The Invention of Wonder, that made it onto the New York Times Book Review “New & Noteworthy” book list. Jake has always wanted to be …