Review: The Usual Silence - Book #1 Arles Shepherd Thriller - Jenny Milchman - October 2024 I was excited to read this one as it sounded interesting and overall the book was a good thriller, but I did feel that it had a bit too many storylines and along the way, the story for me started to get muddled and confusing. It gave me the same vibes of Family of Liars by E.Lockhart where you enjoy the book, but you are still left with that feeling of what I read as I sat here afterward trying to process and wrap my head around the book. The book starts with a young girl kidnapped and then it jumps to a therapist named Arles Shepherd whose therapy skills are seen as out of the box she gets a few complaints and the board decide to let her go. She then inherits her family's old house to open it as a residential therapy. There she invites Louise and her son. Arles has been searching for the identity of Louise as she has had in her possession for the past 20+ years a photo of a young girl. The ...

Review: Never Lie - Freida McFadden - September 2022 This author has been on my list for a while as I have read a couple of books prior and enjoyed them so I had aimed to read her backlist. This one was a prize from @bookiebron and it was such a great read and a fast-paced one too, I just didn't want to put it down. Never Lie starts with meeting Adrienne Hale who is a therapist. She runs her business from home and in the beginning we meet a couple of her clients. The book then jumps three years later and Tricia and Ethan are looking at buying a new house. The house happened to belong to Adrienne Hale who vanished without a trace three years ago. A snowstorm has braced and now Ethan and Tricia are stranded and stuck. Over the next few days, the couple will live in the house and during this time Tricia finds a hidden room where she will find recordings of tapes from the Doctors' sessions.  Never Lie flips between past/ present as we learn about what truly happened to the Docto...

Review: The Perfect Ruin - Shanora Williams - August 2021 After reading Shanora William's book The Other Mistress, and enjoying the psychological thriller and the edgy twists and turns. I wanted to go back and read some of her other books. I grabbed The Perfect Ruin and set to read this. This one was just as a crazy ride as The Other Mistress. In The Perfect Ruin, we meet Ivy who has been going to a therapist for years ever since her parents were killed and now she has finally been presented with the name of the person who killed her parents and in her mind completely ruined her life. Now Ivy has the name, she is prepared to ruin the person's life as they ruined hers. The name on the paper belongs to Lola Maxwell who is a wealthy philanthropist and owner of a charity helping young mums. Ivy gets plastic surgery from Lola's husband and slowly starts to infiltrate Lola's life and soon gains Lola's trust as one of her BFFs. Lola's other friends are suspicious as I...

Title: Moody Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Release Date: August 22, 2022 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. The day I showed up to Dax Moody’s sprawling home, I had no idea what was coming. As a traveling massage therapist, I was used to entering the houses of strangers. But this assignment was different from any before it. From the outside, I’d correctly assumed the owner was rich. What I didn’t realize was that he would be younger than I’d imagined, single, stunningly gorgeous, and mysterious. Despite the fact that Dax had booked a massage, it never actually happened, since our first appointment was unexpectedly cut short by a comedy of errors. Certain I’d never see him again after that day, I’d done nothing but think about the captivating man. To my surprise, he called a second time. That appointment, we talked a lot, developing a stronger connection. But once again, there was no actu...

Title: Moody Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs Photographer: Leda & St. Jacques Model: Philippe Leblond Release Date: August 22, 2022 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. The day I showed up to Dax Moody’s sprawling home, I had no idea what was coming. As a traveling massage therapist, I was used to entering the houses of strangers. But this assignment was different from any before it. From the outside, I’d correctly assumed the owner was rich. What I didn’t realize was that he would be younger than I’d imagined, single, stunningly gorgeous, and mysterious. Despite the fact that Dax had booked a massage, it never actually happened, since our first appointment was unexpectedly cut short by a comedy of errors. Certain I’d never see him again after that day, I’d done nothing but think about the captivating man. To my surprise, he called a second tim...