Christopher J. Yates
2013 · 352 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveOne game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.
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Ana Reyes
2023 · 418 pages · 2 reviews
Others: NegativeA New York Times bestseller from the start, this is a gripping, unputdownable thriller. It's a thrilling journey that had me racing through chapters, making it an ideal way to launch your reading year.
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Holly Jackson
2021 · 496 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveAn amazing thriller part of the 3 part series, and the final book. the main character, Pip Fitz-Amobi is about to head to college, but she is still daunted by the results of her previous investigations regarding other crimes (see a good girls guide to murder, and as good as dead). These days, she is death threats in the wake of her well known-true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her a mysterious question, which will hunt her to the grave. The book, As good as dead, introduces you to a fantastic plot, with a mixture of humor, crime, thriller and just a jumble of amazing emotion.
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Nora Roberts
2020 · 464 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveCaitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star—yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house—but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge, reuniting her with her loved ones. Cate's ordeal, though, was far from over. First came the discovery of a shocking betrayal that would send someone she'd trusted to prison. Then there were years spent away in western Ireland, peaceful and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul. Finally, she would return to Los Angeles, gathering the courage to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. What she didn't yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night—one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance...
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Caroline Kepnes
2016 · 448 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Leaning negativeTHE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE HIT BOOK YOU, NOW A NETFLIX SERIES In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.” Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: true love. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he’s more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. He doesn’t want to hurt his new girlfriend—he wants to be with her forever. But if she ever finds out what he’s done, he may not have a choice…
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Greer Hendricks
2019 · 375 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Mostly negative"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
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Mixedthe manga differs from the TV series in one very important area for me and that was the sexual objectification of the female characters I got really tired of every single frame of every single page of every single female character involved in this story being shown from incredibly sexualized angles
