Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really enjoyed Final Girls so I've been looking forward to reading Riley Sager's second thriller for a long while. When Emma was thirteen she was supposed to spend six weeks in the very selective Camp Nightingale. Ins…

A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.   A s Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Min…

Unsympathetic Magic by Laura Resnick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, it's time to get stuck into the third book in the super fun Esther Diamond urban fantasy series featuring my favourite struggling actress, the ex who's a cop, and her good friend the 350-year-old mage. Esther…

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had this book on my TBR pile for over a year now. It's one I picked up, with many others, during one of our last pre-pandemic city book store adventures. And this past weekend was the time to get stuck into it. Ge…

Slender Man by Anonymous My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm probably one of the very small group of people who actually enjoyed the Slender Man movie, so of course I had to grab a copy of this book. Matt is a student in a private school. His parents expect him to become a lawyer but he…

Later by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars After reading thirty books all written by women, I thought it was time to introduce a man into the mix. And who better than the King himself, right? I mean, as soon as this book arrived, I couldn't wait to get stuck into it. Jamie Con…

When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories by Molly Ringwald My rating: 5 of 5 stars I found this book during one of our many pre-pandemic thrift store adventures, and I had to pick it up because I loved Molly Ringwald movies in the 80s. Plus, I didn't know she'd written fic…

The Legacy of Merlin by Eloise Flood My rating: 5 of 5 stars After reading The Power of Three last month and enjoying it so much, I couldn't wait to check this one out. Unlike the first book, this isn't an episode of the show. It's actually a story that takes place betwe…

Hi, how's it going? Is everyone having a good month so far? Can you believe we're almost halfway through March? Yikes. The year sure is moving along pretty quickly. Wish this stupid pandemic would go away just as fast. Hasn't it done enough damage already? 😒 Anyway, as you mi…

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had my eye on this book for a while, so I was really looking forward to getting stuck into it. Tierney lives in a village where girls are sent away to the wilderness at age sixteen. They're gone for a year and are sup…

Doppelgangster by Laura Resnick My rating: 5 of 5 stars A few weeks ago I read Disappearing Nightly and enjoyed Esther Diamond's first book so much I had to read the next one, pronto! When Esther finds herself out of work because the play she was in is cancelled, she returns to …

Hey, how are you today? It's been a while since I posted an update, so here I am. 😄 This year is going really fast, isn't it? I mean, we're already in the third month. Yikes! And asides from the Wall of Dolls edit I worked on a few weeks ago, I haven't gotten stuck in…

Meet Nora. Also known as Rebecca, Samantha, Haley, Katie and Ashley - the girls she's been. Nora didn't choose a life of deception - she was born into it. As the daughter of a con artist who targeted criminal men, Nora always had to play a part. But when her mother fell for one…