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Only If Youโ€™re Lucky

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Moody and evocative, this book is the very essence of a slow burn, best described, in the authorโ€™s own words, as a tantalizingly โ€œslow simmerโ€, bubbling and congealing, before โ€œmorphing into a full-blown boilโ€. Margot, our first person POV, is a strange and disturbingly-repressed narrator. Revealing little, and concealing…

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Leaving

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ A beautifully-written, heartbreakingly twisty tale of star-crossed lovers, who may in fact, now get a second chance to be together, almost forty years after their original romance. Sarah Carson Blackwell is sixty-ish, divorced, with two grown children, and is long used to living alone. (Note: well, not quite alone,…

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Baby X

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Imaginative and intricate, this sci-fi thriller blends a near-future world of inventive hi-tech gadgets and norms (fantastical, but perhaps only barely), with a thoughtful commentary on engineered procreation - in this case labeled โ€œprecision reproductionโ€ - and its affect on the fragile identities of the generations of these humans…

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The Lonely Otter

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Otto is a lonely otter - one who is too shy and timid to join in with the other otters at play time in the water, and who is not feeling loved. With Valentines Day approaching, Otto knows he will be alone again, on the outside and watching everyone…

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Midnight

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ A claustrophobic thriller set in a fascinating location - aboard an expedition cruise set for the icy splendor of Antarctica. In this case, before the ship has even set sail, sinister and unexplained happenings are afoot. When a man is kidnapped enroute to boarding for the soon-to-depart cruise, it…

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The House on Biscayne Bay

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ I do so love a good gothic novel. All the elements are here, at this authorโ€™s hands, building into a hauntingly mesmerizing read that hits all the right notes, keeping this reader thoroughly hooked, - right up to an ending not unpredictable but so perfectly fitting it appears to…

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The Girl in Seat 2A

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Clever and engrossing, this is a fun read with a twisty plot, and an ending this reader did not see coming. Jade Wiltshire wants to live like a millionaire, and has the appropriately titled paperback to help her. 30-ish and pretty, with her recent lottery winnings, Jade is unflinchingly…

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Listen For The Lie

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ An unputdownable thriller, creatively centering on a true-crime podcast, a cold-case mystery, and a totally captivating nasty-but-nice heroine. Lucy Chase is almost thirty, - a beautiful, sarcastic, darkly hilarious, tough-as-nails loner who is used to being on the outside looking in. On the very outside, that is, - as…

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What We Buried

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ Iโ€™m always so pleased to discover a fantastic and new (to me) Canadian author, and particularly one in the legal/mystery space. This intricate and haunting story, involves two contemporary murders, based in Toronto, Canada, as well as war-time atrocities and the wounds left behind on a global and historical…

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Vestige

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ Reading this book is akin to taking a deep dive into a richly-fabricated speculative world, filled with interesting and intricate creatures, ideas and characters, and defined by an entirely new language. (Note: the author includes a very helpful glossary). Touching on many philosophical ideas and a whole host of…

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