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This book was recommended to me by ChatGPT. Well, they have a lot to learn. I kind of hated it. But I always dislike books about terrified mothers, protecting their children like lionesses. I don‘t know why but it happened before. And then the plot, it is so weak and predictable. A definite pan.

📸 Rotterdam, Netherlands

I‘d give this between a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating. The first third of the book scared the heck out of me, but then the middle seemed to drag and I wasn‘t completely satisfied with the ending. It did keep me reading and hooked until the end, though. As the review on the cover says, “You won‘t be able to look away.” Would love to know people‘s thoughts on this one!

This was an unexpected binge read for me. A mother and children stalked in their own home and mom‘s reality is questioned. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Although some bits were a little slow going, this debut was definitely a cut above. A woman and her two children hide after a home invasion...but was the whole thing just a figment of her imagination because of earlier trauma? Smart, well-written and definitely some pulse-pounding moments.

From the blurb this story sounded like my worst nightmare. First third, nope, can‘t do it. Mother is up in the night with young kids, husband not there, realises there‘s someone else in the house. No, not 300 pages of a house invasion with kids in the mix. Yet then the story changes, we go back into various parts of the narrators life, stories slowly evolve. A third in I was suddenly so invested I read the rest almost in one sitting.

Follow up to My Name Is Mary Sutter, about a determined young woman who serves as a doctor during the Civil War. It‘s several years later, and Mary is working in Albany, New York. When a surprise blizzard strikes and two young girls disappear, she doesn‘t rest until they get justice. I don‘t believe there will be a third book, but I‘ll look for others she has written. #serieslove2025

Well, this was yet another tough decision for which October read would be one of my #12BooksOf2024! But, I had to ultimately go with the scariest and the most tense (a very close runner-up was SOMEONE IN THE ATTIC which had me just checking on our own attic before taking my review picture!🤣) which was this listen. Not only did it scare me, but my gasping out loud while walking our dog passed along the scares to him! So this one even scared him!

The suspense really grabbed me in this thriller. The tension was written quite well. I was actually scared. I'm never scared.

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1. Sitting quietly in the morning with a cup of coffee and a book on my phone makes my day. Today that was a little delayed thanks to a power outage, but it‘s all sorted now.
2. The MC of this book is showing, just like in the first book, that she can be compassionate and caring to those in need but won‘t take any 💩from pompous people who try to tell her how to live her life.
#two4tuesday