Review: The Box - Dan Malakin - June 2022 As a voracious reader, I often get books from Netgalley which means that they have no covers on my Kindle and when I click on them, I am going in blind as I can't recall why I requested the books some of the time in the first place. This one was one of those, that ended up a thrilling ride. We first meet the Truman family with Ed, his wife, and his teen kids. Ed is a lawyer and is in the process of bringing down a website, this has made his family a target of an incel group called Men Together. When his daughter disappears, his wife tells him to drop the suit, the thing though that the last thing Ally said to her dad Ed was for him to promise not to drop the suit. Ed and his daughter are close, but his son is not so much. When Ally doesn't come home, Ed is convinced something bad has happened to her whereas his wife is not too fussed, she is also trying to convince Ed to drop the suit. I have to admit, I hat...

Review: Somebody's Home - Kaira Rouda - January 2022 I have read a couple of this author's previous books and also lately have been on a bit of a thriller kick so was excited to read Somebody's Home by Kaira Rouda. Somebody's Home starts with Sandi and her husband Doug moving away and selling their house in Oceanside to Julie and her daughter Jess. We learn that Doug's son and Sandi's stepson Tom have been living in the carriage house and have been given two days to move out. I have to admit, I wasn't keen on the fact that he was given only a short timeframe and, in a way, I understood why he acted out in the book. Julie and her daughter Jess are looking for a fresh start and have brought the new house to Cherry Lane. Both Sandi and Julie's husbands are control freaks and it's their way all the highway. Julie has the guts to leave but Sandi hasn't quite hit the spot. Though by the end of this book both will finally be set free in an unexpected ...