Book Review: #noescape / Gretchen McNeil

If you are looking for a really creepy, psycological thriller - this is it.

Honestly I would have never picked this book up if it weren't for my eblock buddy, Ariel. "It's so good, Miss, It's so good!" I don't love murder and mayhem - but this was indeed pretty good and a bit freaky. 

This is for you if you love mysteries, especially ones where there is a twist. This isn't for you if you dislike decapitation or other equally grizly methods of becoming dead.

#noescape is a prequel to #murdertrending. And I will NOT be reading the second book - I think that I have had enough murder for now.

Enjoy. You will find this on the shelves at South, and in the catalog at Nashua Public Library.

 

Book Review: The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides

This book needs to be gripped with two hands - it is quite the ride!

Prologue: Alicia Berenson's Diary - July 14th 
Here we learn about Alicia's love for her husband, Gabriel. She talks about enjoying watching him cook, how he is "elegant, balletic, organized". So opposite of Alicia herself. She also shares how she is struggling, how she feels that she is wading through mud, how Gabriel gave her this journal to help her get her feelings out. And how she plans to use it as a place to write "positive, happy, normal thoughts."

And then the first chapter begins with, "Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband."
Boom - and we are off into this psychological thriller.

This book is so very much about human nature with some therapy tossed in, a whole lot of  mystery, and plot twists and turns that will surprise you.  Pick this book up if the inner workings of the human mind interests you.

I accessed this book through my SORA account which is linked to Nashua Public Library.