Yes - if you like monster of the week horror! Yes - if you root for queer joy! Yes - if you like tiny robots! Yes - if you wish you could rage against the algorithm! Yes - if you like Hollywood insider baseball! Yes!

If the lyric “give me back my girlhood it was mine first” was a thriller.

Tore through it with delight at its quirk. Loved the little connections between stories.

This is my favourite #netgalley read this month so far. I love a closed door mystery and this one had me hooked. Alfred runs a Hitchcock themed hotel and invited his college friend group (and their secrets) for a weekend. Death ensues. A slow burn.

It felt a little too repetitive for my liking. As a librarian, I loved the concept and the themes.

Beautiful setting, solid premise, clunky execution

A big bucket of popcorn summer blockbuster of a book. Heavy on the action and light on character development. As advertised.

In this quietly heartbreaking sequel, Ailis returns to Ireland to contemplate leaving her husband Tony. She reconnects with Jim; both men are terribly flawed. I couldn‘t put it down.

My husband really likes Catholic horror and this book provided an interesting take on the subgenre. The characters- except Sophie and Barghest - were a bit bland for the story to have any real emotional heft. Thank you to #netgalley for providing me with an eARC.

My first #netgalley audiobook- Apparently I have a thing for hockey romances. This one was a bit dark and both MCs obviously needed therapy more than a new relationship. I found Nick‘s combo of athleticism and artistic talent super hot.

Completely compulsive true story. I was shocked and outraged and utterly hooked. I am glad these women can find healing with one another. (Pictured: my neighbours try and invite themselves for breakfast)

Paul Tremblay is soooooooo good at his job. It‘s very very rare that I do an audiobook in a single day but I simply could not stop. Can‘t wait to read it again.

I love horror when it walks the line between the supernatural and humans doing their messy best. Bonus points if it has dual timelines (I blame It). So this was right up my street: Ethan returns to the cul de sac where he was raised and tries to solve the cold case of his best friend‘s disappearance decades before.

A fictionalized and relentlessly terrifying account of Putin‘s rise to power.

I really really really liked this audiobook. Elle Fanning is excellent as Margo - a young single mom who turns to Only Fans to make ends meet.

A soft soapy pick. The ending dragged a bit for me and I thought Eden had more chemistry with Freddie than Rufus.

What a fantastic and complex audiobook

I tore threw this eerie thriller and was there for it every step of the way. Thanks #netgalley

An intriguing to read dual timeline thriller about the dark side of female friendships. The 2008 timeline was much better than the 2018 mystery.

Fun but way too long

I liked: the concept and the narrator‘s voice. I didn‘t like: the pacing, the lack of fright, how vaguely drawn the secondary characters were, the climax

My first Alvarez. It had a dreamy quality of reality I really liked and was not afraid to get dark.

A historical family saga centred on one man‘s secret shame. I was utterly riveted.

A fun quick listen - both a murder mystery and a love letter to the genre.

A riveting vampire police procedural until the last quarter when it all kind of fell apart for me. A soft pick. Pictured: current mood.

My kids say my thorough enjoyment of this book means I‘m officially old. Pictured: the owl that used to hang out in our yard.

A younger woman and an older man have a love affair that turns dark amid the dying days of East Germany.

I bailed less than 100 pages from the end. Somehow this book made an overpopulated sprawling mess of a most excellent concept.

This fish out of water romance will give lots of people cosy good feels. I found it a bit lukewarm despite liking the two MCs.

Seeing such mixed reviews, I slept on this one for a long time. But I‘m glad I finally went for it because I completely loved it. The plot is ‘things were bad and then they got worse‘ told through a fanatical prior and two monks in 600s Kerry.

Could not put this work of historical fiction down! Loved the setting (rural Norway during a witch hunt) and the characters. Parts of it reminded me of The Miniaturist - high praise indeed.

A debut novelist has trouble finding a publisher for her YA zombie novel until she attributes her work to a masculine pseudonym. Daphne hires someone to play the author on the book tour and they fall for each other. I really had a good time with this one - both Daphne and Chris were sweet and good together. Loved the Canadian settings too! #netgalley

How did I sleep on this one for so long? It‘s a thoroughly entertaining read about two unlikely comrades on an even unlikelier quest set against the backdrop of WWII Russia.

I loved the narration in the audiobook. The first half was excellent. Journalist Rika seeks an interview with a famous female serial killer / gourmand. Like Clarice Starling before her the killer gets deep into Rika‘s head. The initial promise of the novel is squandered as it drags on too long (and sometimes inexplicably).

An absorbing family story that takes us to several continents and different tumultuous times. All the characters felt like real people.

A young refugee‘s reality is coloured by fantastic stories her aunt tells her. A dreamy dark read.

Grenville fictionalizes her grandmother‘s story as a way of examining mother‘s mother‘s life so she can understand who she was besides a cold parent. Empathetic and healing.

This audiobook did not let up! When a teen girl is found injured and with amnesia, her father comes to the police station to claim her, but is he who he says he is?

An exaggerated portrait of the dark side of new motherhood. It had an archetypal feel to it that didn‘t always resonate with me - a soft pick.

A kind of low stakes Fleishman is in Trouble. The pages turn themselves.

Thoroughly enjoyable collection of short fiction dealing with climate anxiety, technology, indigeneity and more.

I was curious about this #manbookerinternational longlister but not expecting to like it as much as I did. A mixed race polyamorous woman comes to terms with who she is, the structures and relationships that helped form her, and who she‘d like to be.

Loved 90s music and still do. (Hi Evan!) This fond look back was a bit too scattered to be a full pick.

Two awkward teens create a piece of art that takes on a life of its own. Really fun and interesting listen narrated by Ginnifer Goodwin.

Darkly hopeful and unputdownable novel about an adopted young woman trying to find out the circumstances around her biological brother‘s death by drowning

Finally finished this one after three weeks. It was well done and I feel like I should have really liked it (Hoffman, forgotten woman of history, art, family saga) but I didnt connect with it in any meaningful way so it felt a bit like a slog by the end.

While I enjoyed how story driven this book was, and liked the time period and subject matter, I didn‘t really care about any of the characters too much. The audiobook narration was excellent and the time flew by, but in the end I was lukewarm on the experience.

A brief, heartbreaking, hopeful book about a twin left behind in grief when her brother dies by suicide. The first of my Man Booker International shortlist reads. #manbooker

Unputdownable journalistic memoir with loads of insight into the tech industry and a very low tolerance for bro culture and BS

Some of the most unflinching writing I‘ve ever read. And that last line is a gut punch. (Pictured my old метро stop)