September, 2025
September 2nd, 2025, 5:06 p.m. - Howling for you
35. You Belong Here (Megan Miranda)
Up next: We Are All Guilty Here (Karin Slaughter)
September 10th, 2025, 7:59 p.m. - I'm invested
36. We Are All Guilty Here (Karin Slaughter)
Up next: This Book Will Bury Me (Ashley Winstead)
September 16th, 2025, 5:38 p.m. - I liked this, but...
37. This Book Will Bury Me (Ashley Winstead)
Up next: The True Happiness Company (Veena Dinavahi)
September 21st, 2025, 4:21 p.m. - I knew people could be horrible, but freaking A
38. The True Happiness Company (Veena Dinavahi)
Up next: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Ashley Winstead)
September 28th, 2025, 12:58 p.m. - I knew people could be horrible, but freaking A, part 2
39. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Ashley Winstead)
Up next: Replaceable You (Mary Roach)
So slow in the middle, and I never felt a real sense of urgency. Have thrillers all gone soft? Am I the only one who remembers when they were actually thrilling?
Slow in the middle and probably longer than it needed to be, but I liked the characters, and I enjoyed the police-procedural stuff more than I usually do. I'm glad Slaughter is using this as the start of a series. There's a lot to explore here.
I've tried a couple of Winstead's books before and couldn't get into them, so my expectations for this weren't high. To my surprise, I enjoyed this a lot, and I'm going to try at least one of Winstead's other novels again. That said, I don't think she should have based the main crime in the book on a real-life triple murder. There are a thousand possibilities Winstead could have gone with instead. This one made me itchy.
Dinavahi was very brave and strong to write about her experiences being controlled by what most people might not recognize was a cult. I really admire her for being so open. I'd love to read more from her.
This was supposed to be a mystery about a ten-year-old unsolved murder, but it's actually a story of a bunch of college friends who are all terrible in different ways and should not associate with anyone other than each other. P.S. Shut up, Courtney.