Category Archives: Spoilers

Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Title)

First Lie Wins

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston is a thriller about a mysterious woman with a fake identity who is trying to stay one step ahead when she realizes there’s something suspicious going on that she’s involved in. This was also Reese’s Book Club Pick for January. First Lie Wins is a little bit more cloak-and-dagger …

First Lie Wins: Recap & Summary

Chapters 1 – 6 Evelyn Porter has been seeing Ryan Sumner for two months and meets his childhood friends — Beth, Sara, Allison, and Allison’s husband Cole — for the first time. They are a tight-knit group, and they pepper her with questions. Evelyn worries they’ll judge her for her background. She only has her …

The Teacher: Recap & Summary

Prologue Part I Part II Part III Epilogue Prologue The book opens with an unnamed narrator trying to dig an unmarked grave in the middle of the woods before the sun comes up. Part I Chapters 1 – 9 THREE MONTHS EARLIER Eve Bennett and Nate Bennettare a married couple living an orderly life. Nate …

The Teacher

The Teacher by Frieda McFadden wasn’t really on my radar before it came out earlier this month, but early reviews have been pretty positive. I was thinking about going see a friend’s band perform at a bar nearby tonight, but it’s been rainy and overcast this weekend, so I thought this could be a good …

The Paris Apartment: Recap & Summary

Prologue (Friday) Three Hours Later Saturday Thirty Hours Earlier Sunday Seventy-Two Hours Earlier Monday A Week Later Epilogue Prologue (Friday) Benjamin Daniels, a journalist, is at his Parisian apartment — at Number 12, Rue des Amants, third floor — working on a story he believes will make his name. His half-sister Jess Hadley is (inconveniently) …