One of Us is Next (Book #2) by Karen McManus is a sequel to her 2017 young adult mystery-thriller novel, One of Us is Lying (Book #1). I had a fun time reading One of Us is Lying last year, so I knew I’d be picking up the follow-up when I had a chance. I’m …
Part One The book opens 1) a news clip on March 6th about on another death at Bayview High, eighteen months after Simon’s death, and 2) a conversation from 10 weeks prior from the “Vengeance Is Mine” subreddit/forum on Reddit dedicated to revenge. A user, Bayview2020, says that they are looking for revenge for someone …
Part One: Simon Says Chapters 1 – 4 Bronwyn Rojas, Simon Kelleher, Nate Macauley, Cooper Clay and Addy Prentiss are students at Bayview High. They’ve all be sent to detention for having phones in class, which is not permitted. However, the phones they got in trouble for weren’t theirs (planted by someone else), but Mr. …
Chapter 1 Yao, a trainee paramedic, tries to help a stressed out businesswoman, Masha. Other people keep interrupting, she has a cardiac arrest and is carried out. Ten Years Later Chapters 2 – 5 Frances Welty, a romance novelist, has been having back pain. She knows it is psychosomatic. She’s on her way to 10-day …
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (or, Hamnet and Judith in some markets) is one of books in recent memory that I’ve been genuinely really excited to read. After reading Bill Bryson’s wonderful (non-fiction) biography of Shakespeare, I’ve been interested in reading more historical fiction about the famous Bard, but haven’t found much to catch my eye. …
