serialkiller

pick

I have loved all of Downing‘s books. This is no different! I love the strong take charge MC you root for even though they are doing bad things haha

13 likes

Enchanted_Bibliophile

Too Old for This | Samantha Downing

My September Favourite: Too Old for this.

This is one of those books that came just at the exact right time for me.
I was recovering from surgery, and feeling a bit low. Then this book came along and made me giggle and forget about the world for a while.

@TheEllieMo
#12BooksOf2025

AnnCrystal 📚🫂💝. 7d

TheEllieMo This sort of dark humour appeals to me 6d

35 likes1 stack add2 comments

Gissy

Murder at Sunrise Lake | Christine Feehan

pick

July 2025 Book #5

This was a gift from a friend of mine, because this is one of her favorite authors in paranormal romance. I think this is my first novel by this author. It was good but it didn‘t impress me. My friend hasn‘t read it yet she thought it was good start because was a stand alone but I clarified her that it is part of a trilogy. But I like the “six sense” or ability to experience premonitions through her dreams⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) Those dreams are not pleasant because they anre attached to a traumatic experience. There is romance which I would prefer this main character could be more assertive but let see what happens in second novel. Something happened that someone in the group is not who they seem to be. It was a little predictable at some point. Stella will have dreams connecting who that person is. Again, the motive why this person behaved in that way was⬇️ 1w

Gissy (Cont) unrealistic to me🤷🏽‍♀️But I‘m intrigued to see what is going to happen in book 2. This author has been recommended to me by different persons. Maybe this series was not the best to start with but is the shortest series I think. 3.5⭐️ 1w

Gissy #Read2025 @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo #5 (gift) @TheAromaOfBooks
GoodReads #52ArpindTheYear prompt #45 (more 10 years career)
#Buzzword for February (related with waterlake YouTuber @Booksandlala
#CoverChallenge for May eye/eyes YouTuber @Booksandlala 1w

DieAReader 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1w

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1w

29 likes5 comments

Hilary427

Too Old for This | Samantha Downing

pick

This was funny and witty and a pure entertainment read. Don‘t think about it too hard and you‘ll love it! (44)
⭐️: 4/5

19 likes

BeeMagical

Tourist Season: The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy | Brynne Weaver

pick

So good! Weaver is obviously an auto read for me now. Excited for book two in this story.

And the epilogue!?! WTF!

14 likes

OutsmartYourShelf

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers | Caroline Fraser

so-so

OK, now this is a really interesting hypothesis: did the preponderance of serial killers (Ted Bundy, BTK Killer, Green River Killer, I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker etc) in the 1970s & 1980s around the American Pacific Northwest have links to the high levels of environmental pollution of that time? Lead, cadmium, & arsenic were just some of the pollutants belching out of industrial smelters & Tacoma, (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf Washington seems to have been 'ground zero' for serial killers. So far, so good right?

Unfortunately the way this book is written makes it a very difficult read. The vital information needed is buried underneath an avalanche of superfluous information - just what is the fascination with bridges? What do road traffic accidents on said bridges have to do with serial killers? Interesting stats maybe, but not relevant here.

2w

OutsmartYourShelf I stuck it out because, as I said, it's a really interesting hypothesis, & I really wish the author had written the book focusing on that aspect. It took me 2 weeks to read this & it really shouldn't have. 3⭐

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7976572468
Read 8th - 21st Dec 2025

#ReadAway2025 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

2w

DieAReader A shame, it sounds interesting🤷🏻‍♀️👋🏻 2w

29 likes3 comments

MsRadioSilence

Tourist Season: The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy | Brynne Weaver

so-so

I didn‘t love this one. I think it reads as a mystery/thriller with a dark romance undertone, which…m/t has NEVER been one of my preferred genres. The pacing was off, and the characters are…fine. I think I‘ll read the next one, but if that one doesn‘t hit….

3 stars | #darkromance #mystery #thriller

MsRadioSilence Immediately pulled that sticker off, I forgot it was on the dust jacket until I took the pic 😤 3w

19 likes1 comment