The Heiress
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins was published in January of this year. I read Hawkin’s mystery-thriller The Wife Upstairs a few years back, so this release caught my eye though I was on the fence about whether the premise interested me. In The Heiress, Camden is the adopted son of a very wealthy heiress who …
The Fury
The Fury by Alex Michaelides came out in January, a standalone book that takes place in the same world as his previous mystery-thrillers, The Silent Patient and The Maidens. There’s brief mentions of the characters from his previous books, but definitely no need to have read either of them to get into this one. The …
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt was released back in 2022, but has managed to maintain its popularity even a year and a half after its initial release. The popularity of this book feels somewhat unexpected, considering that many the chapters are narrated by an octopus named Marcellus living in an aquarium. But it’s …
Never Lie
Never Lie by Freida McFadden came out a while ago, back in late 2022, but I’ve been binging a bunch of her thrillers lately so I’m just reading it now. In Never Lie, a young couple, Trisha and Ethan, go to an open house in a snowstorm and end up stranded in an extravagant house …
Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros came out in May of last year, and the second book in the series, Iron Flame, was published a brisk seven months later. My sister has been enthusiastic about this book series, known as the The Empyrean series. She and I have pretty different tastes in books, but occasionally we …