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Continue reading →: Every Smile You Fake – Dorothy Koomson“Profiler and therapist Kez Lanyon is shocked when she finds a baby on the backseat of her car, with an unsigned note asking her to take care of him. Kez has a pretty good idea who the mother is – Brandee, a popular social media star with a troubled background,…
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Continue reading →: And He Shall Appear – Kate Van der BorghBook: And He Shall AppearAuthor: Kate Van der BorghRating: ⭐️3/5⭐️Publication Date (UK): 16th January 2025 A young man arrives at Cambridge and immediately falls under the spell of Bryn Cavendish, the popular guy who also performs magic. The book has been described as The Secret History meets Saltburn. I have…
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Continue reading →: The Betrayal of Thomas True – A.J. WestThis is a historical fiction/ thriller mash up. It is set in Georgian London and follows the gay scene and the molly houses. It follows Thomas True, a new arrival to the molly houses and a carpenter, Gabriel, hiding a double life. There is a rat betraying the mollies…
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Continue reading →: Tender is the Flesh – Agustina BazterricaThis is a dystopian novel where a deadly virus has contaminated animal meat. Because of the lack of animals to eat, cannibalism becomes legal. The story follows Marcos who is high up in a human slaughtering factory.
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Continue reading →: We Used to Live Here – Marcus KliewerYoung couple Charlie and Eve get an old house deep in the mountains for a baragin and intend to flip it. One day, Thomas turns up with his family claiming to have lived there in the past and wanting to show his family round. Strange things start to happen…
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Continue reading →: Home Before Dark – Riley SagerTwenty-Five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents fled their home, Baneberry Hall after living there for 3 weeks due to a dangerous encounter with a ghost. At the time, Maggie’s father wrote about the whole ordeal in a book. Maggie believes it’s all lies, ghosts don’t exist…
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Continue reading →: The Rich – Rachel LynchThe story follows psychologist Alex, and following the murder in the neighbourhood, the police set out to investigate. Was it a family member of the deceased or even one of Alex’s clients?
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Continue reading →: Our Little Cruelties – Liz NugentThe story follows the Drumm brothers. Throughout their lives, Will, Brian and Luke have always been in competition with one another. They’ve competed for their mother’s love, status, money, fame and women. The book starts off with the three brothers being present at a funeral, however, only one of them…
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Continue reading →: The Other Half – Charlotte VassellThe book is basically very rich people behaving extremely badly (think Made in Chelsea) in a murder investigation with a Bridget Jones type love triangle thrown into the mix!
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Continue reading →: Nine Lives – Peter SwansonNine Strangers received an envelope containing just a single sheet of paper listing 9 names, including their own. If you’re on the list you’re marked for death and one by one, they all start getting murdered.
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