Welcome to Litsy!

Boring! 😴 This was a different author that was “Recommended for You”, so I thought I would try it. The first 25% was just seven women talking about this, that and the other thing. The murder didn‘t happen until 25% into the book! Hard pass on this one. Sorry.

“Jen Dunne is forty-two and getting married for the second time, but that doesn‘t mean she can‘t go all out for her bachelorette weekend. She‘s booked three days of super-exclusive luxury accommodation on a remote Scottish island for herself and six other women. Then one of the women goes missing. The others receive a threatening message urging one of them to confess a terrible secret. But whose secret is it?”

I‘m a sucker for a fixed-setting thriller, & this one doesn‘t disappoint! To celebrate her upcoming second marriage, Jen has rented an exclusive house on a remote Scottish island with her 2 childhood friends, 2 tennis friends, her sister-in-law from her first marriage and her soon-to-be sister-in-law. But the weekend quickly takes a turn; when a mysterious message demands they make the truth known, it‘s quickly apparent each has a deadly secret!

A fast read. Entertaining, but wildly over the top in the dramatic reveal department. When has there ever been a group of friends with that many wild secrets? Plenty of plot twists too, but lots of foreshadowing so that even the most preposterous ones don't come as a real surprise. It made me laugh out loud a few times. And introduced me to a really catchy 80s heavy pop song I had never heard before.

I wouldn‘t have picked this up myself, but I enjoyed it, & it kept me turning the pages! 7 women go to a hen party on a remote Scottish island. Murder, kidnap & blackmail ensue. But who is actually being blackmailed?

Way too much backstory, but entertaining nonsense. A fun read that required zero emotional investment.

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Chris Brookmyre is one of my fave authors. His juvenile sense of humour and videogame-like action sequences have oft kept me entertained!

This isn't his best work, but I still enjoyed it.

A hen party on an isolated Scottish island goes awry when the group get terrorised by the "Reaper".

The first half is far too exposition-heavy and is mostly backstory, but the final third was twisty, tense and full of pay-off.

Not amazing, but entertaining.

I finished a #gladstonenerds book club read 😁
An afternoons entertaining read.
Apologies if I‘ve missed anyone off the tag!

Afternoon plans 😁

Sitting down for some cake and tea in the garden with my Mum, my book and my enormous new snuggly jumper 💕💕

Hope this one is good, because I chose it for bookclub (and I have a bit of a track record of choosing books I later have to apologise for 😜)

Happy Sunday, y'all 🤗

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Here's my Bookspin list for October! 🎃🍵🍂
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The tagged book is the one I picked for book club. Don't let me down, Brookmyre!

Hopefully this time I pick up Atomic Habits, I'll make it past the introduction... my friend told me I needed this book URGENTLY about 3 years ago... time to develop a better system. New month, new Rae 😘

Essays!

Party-based thriller from my fave!

A #blameitonlitsy thriller that has a crappier cover than the US version ? !

"But Rae, you are in a reading slump and melting in the heat and you have no shelf space!?"

Ah shush, there are worse vices to have ??

Sending out love to you all ?

It got off to quite a slow start & it took until I'd read about 20% of it for it to become genuinely gripping, but once the murder occurs, the pace picks up. I did work out some of the twists but there were a couple of things that were slightly different to how I had imagined & the ending was a little far-fetched. Overall though I enjoyed reading it & it kept my interest after the initial lull. 4🌟

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