Lunar Park doesn’t seem to be an out-and-out hit, if the Goodreads rating is to be used as a meter, but I quite enjoyed it.
Tag: thriller
There is a sort of voyeuristic allure to Bret Easton Ellis novels for me. For whatever reason, I love to read about hypersexual nihilists with far too much money and far too much access to cocaine.
I picked up this book because of its premise.
In this post, I will be going through the main plot points that cement Bear’s status as the main villain of Obsession, as well as analyzing how his choices throughout the story gradually reveal his true character.
Which is creepier: Pennywise, or the way Stephen King wrote the main female child character of this book?
Like Lolita , this book brings readers disorientingly under the spell of a bizarre narrator with an uncommon way with words.
I knew I would like this book after the New Yorker described it as centering “around Alice Law and Peter Murdoch, two graduate students who venture to Hell to rescue their adviser Professor Grimes, who has recently died. He was a cruel mentor, yet they fear that they will never succeed on the job market without securing a letter of recommendation from him.”
That sounds like a book for me if anything does.
In my opinion, there is a limit to the amount of ambiguity that a story can sustain. If you cross the limit, it goes from being interesting and mind-bendy to just making the reader feel a bit slow.
Nowadays, I don’t often read Young Adult fiction, but I was immensely excited to dive into this book for some fun and nostalgia. Five Survive was entertaining and fast-paced, but the plot left much to be desired. Let’s talk about it.
Fight Club is one of those famous books I hadn’t yet read but felt immense pressure to read due to its seemingly universal presence in pop culture.
Picture this: you’ve been instantaneously transported into 19th century Russia, in the slums of St. Petersburg.
Whenever I see news about yet another school shooting, there are three main questions that always run through my head.
Okay everyone: If you’re looking for an accessible classic, this immersive, lyrical and suspenseful psychological thriller is the way to go!
Well, it’s official. And Then There Were None is no longer my favorite Agatha Christie book.
With its unique premise and slower pacing, I think it’s fair to call The Cousins Karen M. McManus’s most controversial mystery. And yet, it is the book that reserved McManus’s spot on my list of favorite authors.
I’ve been obsessed with YA mystery/thrillers for a while… there’s something about the easy-to-read yet suspenseful writing style, plentiful plot twists, and shock endings. They’re just so readable, and I can’t just enough!
Do you ever get that feeling, while reading a book, where you’re completely absorbed in the story and you just can’t put it down? It’s almost like eating delicious food, or being wrapped in a warm blanket. You don’t want it to end, because you’re just in the MOOD for reading.
I NEED to meet Holly Jackson. Right now. This woman is a genius.
A New England prep school, a murder mystery, the remarkable descendants of famous literary figures… Intriguing Premises 101.
Take a classic, high-stakes, locked-room mystery, add some spicy drama, and you have a real page-turner.
Frappes and Fiction 