Queen B’s Decree: Once the story started to unveil in Someone is Always Watching, I was hooked. It’s the kind of thriller I love, where it includes just a bit of interpersonal relationships and romance. Blythe and her friends don’t know who to trust, and they’re on the hunt for answers. And as the storyline […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Lost Wife was a difficult start for me. It alternates between present day and moments up to one year ago, counting down to current time. And…it was slow. Basically, Harry and Lea are getting married, but more and more, Lea believes Harry is hiding something from her. Most of the time […]
Queen B’s Decree: Tell Me What Really Happened was a perfect example of the “unreliable narrator” trope, with four specimens. Four teenage witnesses are in separate interrogation rooms and are asked their version of events on the night that Maylee went missing. The pacing is a little slow at the beginning, as it was the […]
Queen B’s Decree: Standalone definitely gave me The Wire vibes. It was a difficult start for me, since so much of the dialogue and point-of-view were written in street slang and vernacular. Once I was able to interpret and it settled down a bit, the story line sucked me in. Dickie is kind of a […]
Queen B’s Decree: I couldn’t put Missing Clarissa down. While I found the mystery to be engaging, what kept me hooked were Cam and Blair. I loved their characterizations. They both just felt so real. So many times Cam’s thoughts made me laugh out loud, or think back to my teenage years. In short, those […]
Queen B’s Decree: I got sucked into The Woman in the Library immediately. I found it so fascinating. The main story is essentially a murder mystery being written, while the secondary story is all about Leo, a beta reader for the “author” Hannah. I was intrigued by all the characters; how they are all drawn […]
Queen B’s Decree: I was trying to describe this book to a friend and the best thing I could come up with was “old timey mystery with an interesting narrator.” I loved the writing in Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. I was entranced by Ernest and his inner monologue and I couldn’t wait […]
Queen B’s Decree: I didn’t finish The Things We Do to Our Friends. I tried. But the story just kind of dragged on. Foreshadowing what was to come, yet nothing really happened. Our narrator is Clare and she sounded as unreliable and unlikable as all the characters introduced. The only thing I enjoyed was the […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Good Daughter was my first read by Karin Slaughter and it won’t be my last. I was hooked from page one. Charlotte and Samantha went through something extremely traumatic as teens, and 28 years later, they’re still dealing with the repercussions. The Good Daughter alternates with unraveling the timeline of what […]
Queen B’s Decree: I struggled with The Locked Attic at the beginning. It felt like it took forever to get to the build-up. But once it started to play out, I was entranced by the interpersonal relationships unfolding. Some of what happens doesn’t really seem to make sense (please explain the explosions to me!) but […]