Tag: Mystery / Thriller Book Review

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage… not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

I had some expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to. Ive seen a lot of people call this book “excellent techno-thriller” which really got me excited to read this book, which turns out to not be the truth.

Sometimes the technological digressions in this book is simply too much, and it pretty much hard to keep track of it and why things are happening because of it.

The beginning of this book was very good because it was very interesting and it was fun and interesting to figure out what was happening in this little chaotic beginning. 

However the longer you dive into this book the worse it becomes, because it quickly becomes boring and the entire plot revolves around a software program which really wasn’t something very exciting.

After fishing this book, I noticed that all of the main characters in Dan Brown’s novel are very good looking, like a top model good looking. Which really should be answered by Dan Brown on why he does that.

When it comes to the characters in this book, well there isn’t a lot to say about them. They are interesting at first but the more we get to know them, we notice that they are very shallow and not so bright if it isn’t a last minute knowledge illumination.  

Another thing which annoyed me about the characters is that we get one woman and the rest of the recurring characters are men. We get 2 other female characters in this book which we only see for couple of pages. But the point is that this book is 99.8 % only men characters. And as you can expected all of the men characters in this book are running after the main character who is a female and trying to get to have sex with her more or less.

There are many times where the plot focuses more on the software program than on anything else. Which really annoyed me because I understand that, that software program is a big deal in this book but why not focus on the action or something else than only on the software program.

The writing style isn’t the best. Ive read one book from Dan Brown before going into this one, and well the writing style when it comes to Dan Brown or this book really don’t live to the fact that some people call him one of the greatest living authors. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

I gotta say that this book really surprised me, because it has a disturbing plot as well as disturbing characters and it doesn’t fail to make you feel very uncomfortable while reading it.

I personally didn’t love this book but it was the best thriller book I’ve read last year (2023).

This book took me a very long time to really get into it. Because I found it very hard to like the characters at the beginning and the beginning was all over the place for me personally.

However I find it really hard to write this review because I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one had I know this book is a bestseller and on the other hand the more I think about this book the less I like it.

The writing style in this book was defiantly good when you look at the fact that this book was the debut novel by Gilliam Flynn.

This book involves a lot of dark topics which may trigger some people. Some off the dark topics are self-harm, child abuse, druging children,  sexualization of children, murder of young children amid couple of other things which I can’t say because they will be seen as spoilers.

This entire book is from a journalist perspective who was more or less forced by her employer to return to her own town to investigate the murders of children there. Which I personally found to be very boring.

The big twist at the end, wasn’t truly a twist because we were getting small hints of the ending from the beginning of this book.

The characters in this book were pretty flat and uninteresting. However the main character had some really good moments here and there throughout this book but I found it very hard to like her because she was such a weak character who wasn’t suited to be a crime journalist.

The rest of the characters were almost as flat as the main character. The mother of the main character is an abusive b-word, which really made me hate her a lot.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.

This book is a collection of 3 separate modernist variations of detective books named City Of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. And the reason why I have this book is because a few years back one of my local libraries were selling books for a dollar and since that time this book been laying in my TBR file for years waiting to be read.

To be honest I didn’t have any expectations for this book because I didn’t know anything about other than it being a modernist variations of detective books which take place in New York City.

All of 3 separate books which are in this book are short, and to be fully honest very boring and uninteresting. The first book was very interesting at the beginning but it quickly turned to boredom. And the 2 remaining books were very uninteresting and boring.

While I was reading this book I kept thinking that something needs to happen for me to not fall asleep while reading it. But of course nothing happened in this book, other than drama, poor plot, worse character and being bored to dead.

The writing style here was very mechanical and boring. It felt like I was being a told a story by someone who absolutely hated telling stories and he / she just said whatever came to his / her mind at the moment. In other worst the writing style was very very painful.

The character are really bad here. They had no dept to them, no personality, no opinion and it was really hard to tell them apart because all of the character felt like the same person.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America’s greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront

I need to confess that this book might be the greatest thriller book ever written. 

This book is very dark and perhaps controversial to some people. But it is also very interesting, enjoyable and a page turner. 

Patrick Bateman is an amazing main character, due to his delusions and the complexity of his character. But he also represents in a way what a lot of people became in modern times which more or less are slaves to materialism. But having a psychopath as a main character is really satisfying.

The plot here is wow. It’s very unique, engaging, interesting and it keeps you interested from the first page to the last. The plot gets very dark at times, and the fact that we can’t distinct if its reality of just delusions to Patrick Bateman keeps you question a lot but in a very interesting way.

The writing style here is incredible, it felt like the author knew exactly what words to use to get you engaged in the plot and keep you reading this book until the end. The writing style in this book is brutal at times due to the way some moments are described which makes it even better and interesting.

This book is very violent and brutal at times but I suppose that’s what you get from a book where the main character is a psychopath who puts the perfect smile in-front of everyone. And it will for sure stick with you for a long time after finishing it.

In this book we also get a lot of essays of shorts from the main character about the 80s music, movies and famous brands.

Patrick Bateman is a psychopath and this book is from his point of view but he only shows us in this book what he wants to show us. Which makes his point of view very unreliable. And in this book the unreliable narrator is the best thing which could happen to this book. Because it makes you question if it really happened or not. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. 

To be fully honest this book don’t live up to the hype. 

The mystery part in this book was super engaging and interesting and I loved to follow the investigation which the main character was doing. But the final where the whole mystery is explained was really not what I’ve expected and it had really disappointed me. 

This book for me didn’t feel quite as a psychological thriller but more like a shitty ended thriller. But that just my opinion so take it for what you want. 

The plot here was the very good, but the ending was really disappointing and it had ruined the entire book for me. And it left us in a huge cliff-hanger which really made me pissed of even more.

The characters here were okay for the most part. There were some characters which were painted as bad characters were they shouldn’t be and there were some good characters which really didn’t deserve it.

The main character was somehow likeable but she really is bad at catching little hints which really made me scream in anger at times and made me want to bang my head against the wall when the big finally came around. 

The writing style here is somehow okay but it really felt very weak at times especially when you compare it with the plot. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Detective Fabian Risk’s daughter is in a coma at Helsingborg hospital. It’s Risk’s fault for getting her involved in his last investigation – and the guilt is crippling. A MURDERED BOY. 

This book started of good but it quickly went down the hill for me personally and I just ended up DNF-ing it after like 47%. Which is sad because I personally hate DNF-ing mystery and thriller books. 

The plot here is okay in the beginning but it goes fast to being overwhelming and I personally had super hard time keeping track of everything which was happening and of who was who. 

There are many investigations in this book and the main investigation of this book basically gets thrown to the side for the majority of this book.

For me all of the characters kept blending in together and I just couldn’t tell them apart which was the biggest reason why I DNF-ed this book. 

All of the characters in this book are very weak and it is almost impossible to tell them apart which I already pointed out above. 

The writing style in this book was very weak and I just didn’t like it. It felt like it was written by a fresh author in the game which isn’t true because the author of this book have written multiple books before this one. And this book is the fourth book in a series named “Fabian Risk”. Which might be the reason why I didn’t like this book and why I DNF-ed it. Because beginning a series in the middle is a bad call. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.

Ive heard a lot of good about this book, and after reading this book I needed to be honest and say that it didn’t live up to my expectations.

This book is a kind of psychological thriller, and defiantly is uncomfortable to read at times but in my opinion that’s what made this book fun to read. Because it’s disturbing at times.

There are a lot of books with the same premise that the daughter is a monster but the way the author presents the story to us makes it unique. Because we are stuck with thinking about if the daughter is truly a monster or if its the mother who doesn’t love her daughter and thinking of her as an insane psychopath.

The writing style was pretty easy in this book, but at the same time it made this book so much easier and faster to read. Which really went well with this book. 

The majority of this book was very interesting and mysterious but the last 10% of this book really went downhill and pretty much destroyed the book for me personally.

The characters here are more or less okay. They seem flat most of the time, but there are times when they feel like real human beings. The characters here get some good moments here and there throughout the book, but these moments were really rare.

The dad in this book is too love blind towards his daughter and completely denies that there might be something wrong with his daughter even thou many people tells him that something might be wrong with her. This fact really made me angry and frustrated because we get a lot of events involving the daughter which makes it clear that she isn’t a normal child with normal child behaviour.  

This book has a good premise but the way it ended just ruined the entire book. Because we spend the entire book thinking if the daughter is a psychopath or if it just the mother who is overdramatising everything her daughter does. And the ending just pretty much summarises the whole book that the daughter is a psychopath and the mother is a overdramatising queen.

Once you have around 80 pages left of this book, the ending becomes very predictable and really leaves you annoyed, frustrated and unsatisfied.

And the ending really felt like you read this book a million times before. Due to its shitty thriller ending and how it surprised the plot of this entire book in one line. Which really made me want to throw this book against a wall or burn it.

I Give This Book 2 / 5