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 […]
Queen B’s Decree: Many Are Invited was a really quick read. It’s based in the 90’s, right during the heyday of the Y2K bug. It really is a story of jealousy and secrets. Our narrator Steve, being jealous of his friend John’s life and choices. All the secrets that John’s significant other and best friend […]
Queen B’s Decree: B For Beretta was not my normal read. It’s about voodoo magic, and revenge, and societal issues like ‘Black Lives Matter.’ First off, I read this as a paperback and the formatting and print form was SOOO impressive. The art style, how the chapters were organized—I loved it all. The story itself […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Night They Vanished had an interesting premise. After a blind date, Hanna is looking up her date’s dark tourism website, and to her surprise, she’s a message about her estranged family on there…with the date of the murder today. From there, Hanna is constantly moving and trying to find her family. […]
Queen B’s Decree: Mother May I started off with a bang. Bree wakes up and thinks she sees a witch staring at her through her bedroom window. She brushes it off as part of a waking dream, until her son is kidnapped right out from under her with a threatening note. Mother May I answers […]
Queen B’s Decree: I was hooked on Nobody But Us from the start. I wasn’t expecting all the twists and reveals, so I kept turning the page for more. I loved that we got chapters from both Ellie and Steven (although Ellie was in first-person and Steven was in third-person which made it a little […]
Queen B’s Decree: I wanted to like The Caretakers. But I was so bored. The Caretakers starts with the end—the death of a child and his au pair being taken into custody by the police. So here’s where you think: ooooo, there’s a mystery to be discovered! So you start the next chapter, except it’s […]