Categorie: book review
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De Mensenzoon
Synopsis: Na vele jaren van afwezigheid duikt een man zonder enige uitleg weer op in het leven van zijn zoon en vrouw. Hij neemt ze mee naar het diepst van de bergen, naar het afgelegen Les Roches, een verwoeste boerderij, half overwoekerd door planten en bomen. Het is de plek waar hij zelf opgroeide met…
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D.I. Helen Grace 1. Eeny Meeny’
Synopsis: The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dreadful word of it. Days later, another desperate escapee is found – and a pattern is emerging. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then faced with a terrible choice: kill or be killed. Would you…
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Focus Puller
Synopsis: Focus Puller offers an insight into one man’s life over a span of decades, as he faces questions about life: family, relationships, sexuality, commitment, health/well-being and the choices we make. The non-linear and flashback sequence highlights the value of the seemingly small experiences of life and also reflects the imperfect nature of life experience.…
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Haunted Souls
Synopsis: Death brings January Miller home, back to a house that’s taken so much from her over the years – Stone Acres. After years away from the manor, January finds herself drawn back there. To a place soaked in horror and tragedy, the scope of which she cannot imagine…Samuel M. Hallam’s debut novel will bring…
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Andrea Oliver 2. Gewetenloos
Synopsis: De nieuwe standalone topthriller van #1 bestsellerauteur Karin Slaughter. Emily Vaughn maakt zich op voor het hoogtepunt in haar schoolcarrière: het eindexamenfeest. Maar Emily heeft een geheim. En dat geheim wordt haar aan het eind van de avond fataal. Veertig jaar later is de moord op Emily nog altijd niet opgelost. Niemand is ooit…
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De Plot
English Synopsis: (Dutch below) Hailed as breathtakingly suspenseful, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to…
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More happy than not, Deluxe Edition (read along)
Synopsis: (according to author’s website) In the months after his father’s suicide, it’s been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again—but he’s still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he’s slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his…
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The Lunchling
Synopsis: The Lunchling: A Novella by Jay Alexander Orville and Ellie Taylor would do anything to get their son to eat his dinner. Lennon’s an exceedingly fussy kid, and desperate times call for desperate measures. Which is why they started using the puppet. “The Lunchling”, they called it: an ugly little wooden doll with a…
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ARC review ‘The Cotton Candy Massacre’ (ARC)
Writer: Christopher Robertson Publisher: independently published Publishing date: 1 July 2022! Number of pages: 275 (Tolino e-reader) My rating: 5/5 Synopsis: The book you are about to read is an account of the tragedy that occurred at the reopening of Bonkin’s Bonanza one day in the summer of 1989. Some came looking for fun, like…
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Danny Ryan 1. Stad in brand
English review ⬇️ Synopsis: Weergaloos eerste deel in nieuwe trilogie van een van Amerika’s grootste verhalenvertellers. Providence, 1986. De negenentwintigjarige Danny Ryan is een hardwerkende havenarbeider, een liefhebbende echtgenoot, een loyale vriend en af en toe ‘mankracht’ voor het Ierse misdaadsyndicaat dat toezicht houdt op een groot deel van de stad. Danny wil niks liever dan…
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