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Blog Tour: Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks

July 25, 2019 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Blog Tour: Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks! When Emma at Dampebbles Blog Tours sent out the synopsis for this one, I was immediately drawn to it. Who can resist a good domestic thriller that includes a couple with the perfect marriage living the perfect suburban life with a "patient, systematic, methodical" femme fatale thrown into the mix? NOT this girl! What did ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, blog tour, Damppebbles Blog Tours, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Miranda Rijks, mystery, thriller

Review: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

March 13, 2018 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Review: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is a delightfully fresh literary mystery. It was just the thing to get me out of a the little slump I'd been in. I wasn't in the mood for something terribly heavy or terribly morbid. I'm always up for quirky characters. No matter that the quirkiest character was deceased prior to Chapter One. (Of an apparent suicide. In a hot tub. With a string of Christmas ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, book blogger, bookworm, Debut Novel, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Literary Mystery, mystery, Nova Jacobs

Blog Tour: Girl Unknown

January 20, 2018 by Ann Marie 9 Comments

Blog Tour: Girl Unknown

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Girl Unknown! This book is unique in many ways. The first is that Karen Perry is actually a pen name for two writers collaborating on this book. This is the first book, to the best of my knowledge, that I've read penned by two authors and it definitely worked here. Most of the book is told in the alternating first person points of view of Caroline and ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, blog tour, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Girl Unknown, Karen Perry, mystery, Psychological Thriller, thriller

Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

December 23, 2017 by Ann Marie 7 Comments

Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

If you're a friend or follower on Goodreads, you may have seen my status update at page 108: "The jury is still out on this one. I'm not a fan of omitting quotation marks and it's moving a little slowly." And this one at page 163: "Okay, now I'm hooked." A brief status update at the end of the book would have looked something like this: "Huh? What the heck?" And that pretty much sums ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, Book Expo 2017, Fiction, mystery, thriller

Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper

September 18, 2017 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper

Little Women was one of my favorite childhood reads. I don't recall how old I was when I read it but I do remember that I longed to be one of the March girls. And I was so proud to have finished such an unimaginably long book! I found 449 pages very daunting back then. Of course, once I began reading it was over all too soon. Now that I think about it, Little Women may have been my first book ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction Tagged With: ARC, blog tour, book blogger, Elise Hooper, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Louisa Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott, Women in Art

Review of Little Deaths by Emma Flint

February 4, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Review of Little Deaths by Emma Flint

I was so excited to begin this this book. I knew that it was based on a true story story but it was one I was unfamiliar with. I made the conscious decision not to do any research on the case prior to reading this fictionalized version. As you can probably tell from my rating, I had several problems with the book. The first is that it was really quite boring. It just dragged on until the very ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: alice crimmins, ARC, BEA16 Book, emma flint

Review of Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

January 26, 2017 by Ann Marie 12 Comments

Review of Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

Though I wouldn't call anything contained in this review a spoiler, if you are thinking about reading this book, you might want to think twice before continuing. I do not feel I can review this book without including certain information which has significantly influenced my rating and opinions. Okay, now that the disclosure is out of the way, I'd like to state that once again, I seem to be the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: #behindhereyes, #wtfthatending, ARC, mystery

Review of Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

January 25, 2017 by Ann Marie 14 Comments

Review of Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

Lily and the Octopus opens on a Thursday evening. Ted knows it was a Thursday because that's the day he and Lilly, his beloved dachshund, reserve for talking about boys they think are cute. (They don't always agree but they do tend toward younger men.) He suddenly notices the octopus. On Lily's head. He's not sure how or when it came to reside there and he clearly feels some guilt over not having ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: #ownvoices, ARC, dog book, NetGalley

Review of The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian

January 16, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Review of The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian

After reading and enjoying The Guest Room, I was excited to begin reading The Sleepwalker. The disappearance of a woman who sleepwalks is certainly an original concept. I've read stories of people who do some pretty outrageous things in their sleep; from making sandwiches to killing a spouse. (Honest, officer, I dreamt I was wrestling a deer!) But nothing could have prepared me for Annalee's ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller Tagged With: ARC, Chris Bohjalian, NetGalley, parasomnia, sleepwalking

Review of Duplicity by Sibel Hodge

January 2, 2017 by Ann Marie 1 Comment

Review of Duplicity by Sibel Hodge

MY REVIEW From the outside, Max and Alissa seem to have the perfect marriage. They should. They’re filthy rich and have only been married for two months… But everything is not always as it seems. Or is it? Duplicity is a clever and well-paced story of murder and mayhem. I was kept in suspense from the very first page where we are introduced to The Other One. At first, all we know about the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, murder mystery, sibel hodge

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