Review: The Binding Room -Book #2 Inspector Anjelica Henley Series - Nadine Matheson - July 2022 In this particular book, I went in blind not knowing anything about it. Just that it was a mystery read. The book starts with a punch with the first murder scene happening and beware it was pretty gruesome writing. The Binding Room with all its descriptions of the various dead bodies etc is not a book for the faint-hearted. I admired this book for what it was, it had something for everyone and it didn't feel too busy and overdone. The book featured everything from overt to subtle racism with the various skin tones and races of the characters, mental health issues as we ranged from Schizophrenia to Bipolar Disease to Alzheimer's, then we had our thriller aspects from murder to torture to kidnapping. The book also held two sides of the coin with religion from the extreme - demon exorcisms and the behind closed doors to the Megachurch and the way it works with an ATM card holder fo...

Review: Blackout - K. Monroe - February 2022 Allie has woken up after being in a coma, but the thing is she doesn't remember anything. She ended up with amnesia after being told she was in a single car accident and crashed into a tree. She was found with alcohol and it looks like a careless drunken accident, however, there was no alcohol in her system. The police know things aren't adding up, but with Allie not remembering and no one coming forward, things are at a standstill. Like most books with the amnesia trope, our main character when she gets back to her real life- discovers that she wasn't part of a nice crowd and hates the way she treated others. What happens though, when she realizes that her so-called friends are keeping dark secrets and that this may be a case of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer as the truth about what happened to Allie starts to unravel as she experiences flashbacks of that fateful night.  Blackout is a good YA thriller read ...

Review: On a Quiet Street - Seraphina Nova Glass - May 2022 As readers will know from my reviews, 2022 for me is the Year of the Thriller reads as I have been finding it difficult with romances as everything just feels so blah and the same. I struggle with them to keep my attention, but I know often that a thriller will keep me entertained. On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass, a young man named Caleb lies dying on the ground after being involved in a hit and run. It wasn't the hit and run that killed him though, it was a bullet. Who wanted Caleb dead and why didn't anyone call for help? What happened that night that on a normally quiet street in a good neighborhood, no one saw a man dying? The book then jumps to Paige who was Caleb's mother. She spends her time now trying to find out who killed her son by spying on her neighbors as if somebody knows something. She pulled away from everyone including her husband, Grant. Paige's only friend is Cora and Cora has he...