Review: The Hunting Party

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Author: Lucy FoleyPages: 406Star Rating: ✪✪✪ Synopsis for Book 1 All of them are friends. One of them is a killer. During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students…

Review: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Author: Agatha ChristiePages: 228Star Rating: ✪✪✪ Synopsis for Book 1 The famous case that launched the career of Hercule Poirot. When a wealthy heiress is murdered, Poirot steps out of retirement to find the killer. As the master detective makes his way through the list of suspects, he finds the…

Review: Revelation

Author: C J SansomPages: 673Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for Book 1 England, 1537: Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through…

Review: The Innocent

Author: David BaldacciPages: 608Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first -…

Review: The Sword of Kaigen

Author: M. L. WangPages: 651Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis A mother struggling to repress her violent past,A son struggling to grasp his violent future,A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear…

Review: Oathbringer

Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 1233Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for Book One Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are…

Review: Killing for Company

Author: Brian MastersPages: 368Star Rating: ✪✪✪ Synopsis Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, murdered at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983. This groundbreaking criminal study of his killings was written with Nilsen's full cooperation, resulting in a fascinating - and horrifying - portrait of the man who worshipped death. On February 9th…

Review: The Institute

Author: Stephen KingPages: 561Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks…

Review: Edgedancer

Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 272Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows…

Review: Words of Radiance

Author: Brandon SandersonSeries: Stormlight Archive #2Pages: 1087Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for book one According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the Voidbringers followed... They came against man…