Review: The Last Wife - Matt McGregor - May 2025 What starts as a modern fairytale quickly spirals into a chilling psychological thriller in Matt McGregor’s intense and suspenseful novel. Olivia, a humble waitress with artistic dreams, believes she’s won the romantic lottery when she meets the charming and wealthy Lachlan Gibson. Swept off her feet by his attention and encouragement, Olivia is quickly immersed in a world of luxury, love and control. After moving into Lachlan’s lavish home, the cracks in their whirlwind romance begin to show. Small, unsettling things begin to unravel: curious glances from locals, hushed whispers, and a name that Olivia can't escape - Yasmine Gibson. Yasmine, it turns out, was Lachlan’s first wife who died in childbirth just eight months earlier. This revelation alone is shocking, but what’s even more disturbing is how quickly Lachlan moved on—and how much Olivia is starting to resemble Yasmine in every aspect. As Olivia digs deeper, her dream life t...

Review: The Proxy - Book #2 The Thorns of Rosewood - Cassie James and Christine Kelsey - August 2019 At the end of Book #1, we read as Jackie stormed with Piper 2.0 into Stan's office and had her reset as the first replacement Piper was nowhere like her daughter.  When she returns, the boys notice that she is different and is acting a whole lot like the OG Piper which isn't the one they have all fallen head over heels in love with. She is also excluding Macie who was the only one from the beginning that befriended her. With access to her previous logs, can Brennan hack into her memories or give her access to read the logs and hopefully that will spark some of the Piper they had fallen in love near the end of Book #1 back.  Of course though if Piper isn't careful, then Jackie might just realize that she has some of her 2.0 memories back and have her reset once again? As every time Piper is reset she loses herself from the present moment.  Book #2 was a...

Review: The Replacement - Book #1 The Thorns of Rosewood Series - Christine Kelsey and Cassie James - July 2019 When I grabbed The Replacement by Christine Kelsey and Cassie James, I have to admit I thought I was just reading another bullymance novel that would turn into a reverse harem. Other than that I wasn't sure what I would get. Turns out that this book has a twist as the main character is, in fact, an AI robot designed to look like Piper Hawthorne. The real Piper Hawthorne died at the end of the year at a party and now her parents have paid an up and coming scientist to create a replacement for them as Piper 2.0. She has all of Piper's memories and the questionnaire answers uploaded to her system and was created to be a comfort to those who lost Piper. However, when she arrives at school Piper's friends are anything but happy to see her. In fact they are disgusted and start a plan to get her to leave as if they can't have the real Piper the...