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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback, borrowed from friend Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their [...]
Share on FacebookRoom by Emma Donoghue
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Hardback library book Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he [...]
Share on FacebookThe Woods by Harlan Coben
Addition: Paperback Genre: Mystery and suspense Rating: 5 out of 5 Synopsis: Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For [...]
Share on FacebookSize 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Synopsis: Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days [...]
Share on FacebookThe Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
Synopsis: As teenagers Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate, the two seemingly glamorous teens were dubbed ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ by the press and were dealt with by the courts. Years later, having led very different lives, Poppy is keen to set the record [...]
Share on FacebookPut Aside: Glenn Chandler – Dead Sight
Synopsis: As far as Detective Inspector Steve Madden is concerned, the dead don’t speak to anyone. But old childhood memories are stirred when psychic Lavinia Roberts tells him that one of her clients is about to become a killer. When Roberts herself is struck down, Madden is forced to ask the question: did she foresee [...]
Share on FacebookGrave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Waterstones Synopsis: When she was 15, Harper Connelly was struck by a bolt of lightning, which left her with a spiderweb of red over her body, headaches, and episodes of weakness. Sometimes her right hand shakes. And she can find dead people. It’s taken a while, but at last Harper’s pretty happy with her life: [...]
Share on FacebookHold Tight by Harlan Coben
Synopsis from Amazon: Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill – the latest in a string of issues at school – they can’t help but [...]
Share on FacebookThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Synopsis from Amazon: The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and [...]
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