Tag: Mystery / Thriller Book Review

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

This book wasn’t a master piece but I still have a lot of fun with this one.

The characters here weren’t perfect, in fact they were very very far from being perfect. The characters in this book were hard to tell apart. So I didn’t get a lot of those small clues here and there while reading this book which it turns out took a lot out of this book for me.

The writing style here was okay, but from what I read about this book on Goodreads before reading this book I had a lot of expectations for the writing style because Ive read it was very good which it wasn’t. So be warned, dont be fooled by people on the internett. 

The plot twist at the end was very good, but because I couldn’t tell the characters I didn’t like it as much if I had better control about who is who in this book. 

The plot here reminded me a little bit about “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware which I really like. But the difference between this book and  “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware is that “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware does actually have a good plot and good character not like this book. 

The plot here was for sure somewhat unique but the way it was presented to us wasn’t as good as it could have been if the author tried a little bit harder. 

But I need to give this book one point for making me want to read more books from the author which I will do at some point. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Another book written by Colleen Hoover which I DNF-ed and which was very very bad. Why does so many people love her books so much ? All the books I’ve read written by her and just good for nothing else than to burn them after beating the shit out of them. 

The plot in this book was nonexistent and really it was a pure torture trying to read this book, so thats why I DNF-ed it so fast as I did. There are so many red flags in this book about this whole book and how are people liking this book or any of Colleen Hoover’s books? That’s this decades paradox I will never understand.

Did you hear about plot holes in books before ? This book doesn’t have them but instead they have plot craters. Because there are at least 15 plot holes I can tell you about within the first 10 chapters of this book. 

The characters here are very very bad, they are selv centered, and they are so shallow, annoying and uninteresting. To me all of the characters felt like the same f-ing character and I just couldn’t tell them apart.

My main reason for hating the characters in this book is when one of the characters attempts to murder 2 people, and the main character acts like that character just eat her ice cream like “its not a big deal”. The main character just justifies the attempt and forgives the character like double murder attempt happens everyday to everyone. Perfectly normal thing isn’t it ? Happens to everyone all the time isn’t it?

The writing style is oh boy, I dont know what to say to not be offensive and keep it under 18+. The best thing I can do is to say that the writing style felt like it was written by a horny 9 year old boy. Which isn’t a good thing when we are talking about books which you want people to like. 

Goodreads rank this book as a “thriller” book, but it feels more like “young adult worthy of hell fire” book than anything else than that. 

Just writing about this book and Colleen Hoover as a author gets me so so so angry. And the reason behind this is because I hate all over books and I dont understand why people like her so much and why people on Tik Tok hype her books so much because they aren’t worthy of the attention or even space in the book store.

The main problem I have with this book is that it exists. Which it shouldn’t.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren’t made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

I had very high expectations for this book because of all the good things I’ve heard about this book. But unfortunately this one didn’t live up to my expectations. After reading this book I think that this book is very over hyped because it isn’t as good as people claim it to be.

The plot in my opinion is very weak, is very boring and uninteresting and it is way too long. The entire plot could have been cut in half and do much better. The plot sidetracks a lot in this book in the way that it talks about the main plot and then suddenly it just switches to something else which happened few years ago which doesn’t have anything to do with the main plot which really annoyed me.

The characters in this book were very annoying, because all the female character and even police just seemed like they knew Nick had killed his wife especially in the beginning when she first went missing and where there were absolutely no evidence that Nick had killed his wife. Its very sexist if you ask me, because it was like everyone believed Nick had killed his wife just because he was the husband.

When it comes to the two main character which of course are Nick and Amy were very far from being the good main characters. Both Nick and Amy were very flat and uninteresting. 

But Amy especially was a character I truly hated because she is psychopath and not in a good way. She just does shit just because she wants to be the center of the universe, she just wants everything t revolve around her and if she doesn’t get the attention from you well some very bad shit will happen for you.

And Nick in my opinion is just bad character as well because he isn’t trying to do anything to stop his bad shit crazy wife and even try to leave. Like your wife tried to blame you for murdering her and make you get (in the best case scenario) life in prison or (in the worst case scenario) get a death sentence. And you still love her and stay with her and pretend like nothing happened ? Its not what I would have done in this case.

The writing style here was very boring and chaotic. I don’t know what it is but there was something about the writing style which really really annoyed me. Because it is a strange thing because I already read one book by this author before reading this one and I liked that previous this book but I absolutely hate this one.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother – and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised – and constantly revised – by the killer.

This book is the 7th book in the “Harry Hole” series, and in my opinion this book is the best book in this series so far, but I have still a few books from this series to read. 

The plot in this book was very interesting and enjoyable. There was a lot of thing happening in this book, and from start to finish you were left sitting on the edge of your sit because of the tension which was going on this book. 

The plot was very intense because of everything which was happening in this book and I personally loved it. The plot in this book really shines bright in this whole “Harry Hole” series. 

The characters here are amazing, each character in this book is very unique and have something which sets them apart from the rest of the character. When it comes to Harry Hole, he truly shines in this book and for me personally in this book he is more than a drunk who is a police detective. 

The writing style in this book is very good, because its like the author know what words to use to completely suck me into this book and to not let me go until the very end of this book.  Which I truly love when it happens in books. 

When it comes to the ending of this book, and the whole process of catching the killer is very intestate and big. And wow, I’m just left speechless after reading the ending of this book because it was so amazing. 

This book also made me somehow paranoid about snow mans, because if I’m gonna see a snow man in real life from this moment on, I will think about this book and about the killer in this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen.

I didn’t know anything about this book before getting into it, and because of it I didn’t have any expectations for this book. Which I think its important to say before we officially begin this review of this book.

The beginning of this book was somehow interesting, it for sure piqued my interesting and made me think that this book could be very interesting if its properly begins, which didn’t happen. 

However I need to give this book some few extra points for having a very intriguing premise for a plot. It didn’t live up to the premise but it still at the core of it, this book had a good and intriguing intriguing.

The chapters in this book were very short, which really made me annoyed because the new chapter would start with different perspectives before you could figure out what was happening in the previous chapter you were reading.

The characters here in my opinion were very shallow, and flat. And I just couldn’t find the will in myself to care about them or to even like them. Which is a big no-no for me personally. Because for me personally the characters are as important as the plot and tension in a book. 

One of the main things which really pissed me off in this book, were that the female characters were portrayed as sex objects rather than humans. The female characters would get called very frequently as “bitch”, “full of sex-appeal” and whatever else you can imagine. 

The writing style here felt like it was written by a first time writer, but from what ive seen on Goodreads the author of this book have written a handful of books before this one, so I don’t know why this book felt like it was the first book of this author. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil servant—has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry’s troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry’s chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia.

In my opinion this book is the best book so far in this series, and of course we are talking about the “Harry Hole” series. This book is the 6th book in this series.

The mystery in this book is very engaging and interesting which really makes you sit at the edge of whatever you are siting on. However this mystery in this book has the same issues as some of the previous books in this series. Which is that when Harry is in the midst of investigation its super interesting but the moment Harry does something which doesn’t involve the investigation to catch the murderer then it suddenly becomes boring in a way. 

The plot here is interesting and enjoyable but as said above it has some down turns here and there which really made me not fully aboard with it. But the premise of a person killing a person on the stage and no one knew who that was is really creepy to me because my brain instantly goes to someone from “league of shadows” (batman reverse).

The plot in this book takes Harry to dark corners of the former Yugoslavia, which of course makes it more interesting because we get to see it from Harry’s perspective which makes fun. 

The characters in this book are pretty all over the place. Because I truly love Harry Hole as a main character but some of the side characters in this book weren’t as good of characters as Harry is. 

The writing style here was very good, its like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

I personally had high hopes for this book because I’ve heard so much good about this book. And well after reading this book I have to say that this book isn’t as good as people say it is.

While reading this book I needed to force myself to finish this book because even thou I didn’t like this book, I don’t like DNF-ing books.

The characters in this book were very bad, the main character here Theo Faber, was the best character in this entire book because he had much more personality than the other characters in this book, but I still didn’t like him. Because at one point in this book he finds out that his wife have cheated on him countless times but he still didn’t face the issue with his wife but rather swept it under the rug like it was his wife forgetting to throw out a candy wrapper. 

All the female characters in this book were full of stereotypes which most of the times lead to things involving misogyny. Which of course is a big no for me personally. 

The plot in this book was bad, it had few good moments in the beginning but the further you get into this book the worse it becomes. The plot in this book was for the most part very flat, shallow and uninteresting which is a really bad combination of a what a plot can be.

The beginning of this book was actually interesting in a way, but as said above, the further you got into this book the more you wanted to throw this book into a fire and ask yourself why you spend time and money on this book.

The ending here was very terrible, because the whole book was building onto the feeling that the ending will be incredible and big, but when you get to the ending you get very disappointed and you are like “thats what happened ? That’s bull shit”.

The writing style in this book felt like I was written by a teenager who wanted to be the next Stephen King. The writing style was very straight forward and it was leaving nothing to wonder about but rather it told us “thats how it is, the end of the story”. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5