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We Were Never Here

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz is a thriller and the latest pick for Reese’s Book Club. The book opens with one of the characters, Kristen, killing a man while she’s on vacation with her best friend, Emily. Kristen claims it was in self-defense, but the incident is oddly similar to something that happened …

We Were Never Here: Recap, Spoilers & Summary

Chapters 1 – 3 Emily Donovan and her best friend Kristen Czarnecki, both women who are nearing thirty and who met in college at Northwestern, are on their annual reunion trip. Emily works as a project manager at an organic cat food start up called Kibble while Kristen works at a market research firm. Kristen …

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 …