"I write this because, as of now, I am not sure if I am privy to a terrible secret or if I myself am insane." - chapter 1 opening
Review: “The Patient” by Jasper DeWitt
Category: Review
ARC Review: “Babel” by R.F. Kuang
"By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton's narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive." -ch1 opening
Review: “Reckless Girls” by Rachel Hawkins
"Salt water and blood taste the same." - prologue opening
Review: “Sourdough” by Robin Sloan + Magical Realism vs Urban Fantasy🥖
"It would have been nutritive gel for dinner, same as always, if I had not discovered stuck to my apartment’s front door a paper menu advertising the newly expanded delivery service of a neighborhood restaurant." - Ch1 opening
Review: “Under the Whispering Door” by T.J. Klune
"Patricia was crying" -ch1 opening
Review: “The Forever King (The Scalussen Chronicles #1)” by Ben Galley
"A whimper. A garbled moan of a half-prayer to an absent god. That was the sum total of the last words the woman was allowed before the noose slid tight against her pallid neck. A whimper. A garbled moan of a half-prayer to an absent god. That was the sum total of the last words the woman was allowed before the noose slid tight against her pallid neck." -ch1 opening
Blog Tour & Review: “The Carnival of Ash” by Tom Beckerlegge
"The retreating winter had left cypresses shivering in the graveyard beside the church di San Felice. In the shadow of listing crosses, muddy hollows stagnated; angels slipped despairingly into a tangled sea of grass." - ch1 opening
ARC Review: “Breathless” by Amy McCulloch
"Breathe, Cecily. Cold air filled her lungs. It was strange. When she'd pictured breathing up here, she'd assumed it would feel like suffocating. Choking. Maybe, in a way, like drowning. But it didn't." - prologue opening
ARC Review: “The Plot” by Jean Hanff Korelitz
"Jacob Finch Bonner, the once promising author of the "New and Noteworthy" (The New York Times Book Review) novel The Invention of Wonder, let himself into the office he'd been assigned on the second floor of Richard Peng Hall, set his beat-up leather sachel on the barren desk, and looked around in something akin to despair." -Ch1 opening
Review: “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch
"I love Thursday nights." -ch1 opening
Review: “The Good Nurse” by Charles Graeber
"Charlie considered himself lucky." -ch1 opening
ARC Review: “Memories of Blood and Shadow” by Aaron S. Jones
"Darkness cloaked the land of Alfara as a chill wind swept through the fields of wheat. Tavar felt an energy shimmer in the air. The threat of change. Of violence." - ch1
Review: “Not a Happy Family” by Shari Lapena
"There are many expensive houses here in Brecken Hill, an enclave on the edge of Aylesford, in the Hudson Valley." -prologue opening
Review: “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir
"What's two plus two? Something about the question irritates me. I'm tired. I drift back to sleep. A few minutes pass, then I hear it again." Ch 1 opening
Review: “These Silent Woods” by Kimi Cunningham Grant
"Something wrong, I can feel it: a sting prickling the skin and stitching inward." -ch1 opening
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