Categorie: thriller
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Creature Feature Collection: Big Bad
Review: I have to be completely honest, this was not my favourite story from the six Amazon originals. The first half of the story was slow and just couldn’t get my attention. It’s a wonder I made it to half the story (of it would have been a book of 200 or 300 pages I’d…
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Creature Feature Collection: Best of Luck
Review: A joke, that’s what starts this story. A joke about a man who has a string of bad luck. A joke told from one friend to another, while pointing a gun to that friend. Life is hard when your life is one misfortunate event after another, when that one friend you’re friends with for…
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Creature Feature Collection: In Bloom
Review: Best one so far in this collection of shorts!Heidi is on her way to Jimmy Lang who will tell her the story of how his father disappeared after an encounter with algae.Heidi is writing for newspapers the stories about climate change and the appearance of blue algae in ponds and such.Jimmy Lang was twelve…
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Creature Feature Collection: It waits in the Woods
Review: Brenda is fifteen when her younger sister Amanda disappears in the woods of Michigan, UNF (aka Ucatanani National Forest)For three years no one finds any trace of her and no one even considers the impossible possibility of Amanda being taken by Opso, a faceless demonlike creature of legends.When Brenda turns eighteen she leaves the…
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De Opportunist
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402712834/de-opportunist/ Review: Ik moet iets toegeven… dit boek was waarschijnlijk nooit op mijn radar gekomen aan de hand van de coverafbeelding. Integendeel, ik zou ‘chick lit’ vibes hebben gekregen. Maar toen de uitgeverij me vroeg of ik het boek wou lezen en reviewen, dacht ik… ‘what harm could it do?’ En geloof me, dit is…
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Creature Feature Collection: Ankle Snatcher
Review: The stories are true! That monster hiding in the closet? The one underneath your bed? Parents tell these stories to scare their kids. But what if the stories were true? What if something ís hiding there, wanting to get to you?When Marcus has a second date with the woman he thinks could be the…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Review: Grief and obsession, two themes that are often the reason for great horror stories. When Willy and Marianne level behind Brooklyn to move to rural Maine in an old farmhouse, they leave behind pain and grief for a never born baby. Their inability to have children is harsh and they want to start a…
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V for Vendetta
Review: Who doesn’t like a dystopian future where a fascist movement takes over control and there’s one person in a mask trying to overthrow the government? Well, I do… kind of… because after I finished V for Vendetta, I felt empty… I felt like I had been wrung out… this is such a stomach churner……
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Holly Gibney 3. Holly
https://www.boekerij.nl/producten/holly-9789402321777 Review: Stephen King is back! En hoe! Dit is een waar festijn, een buffet van heerlijke echte Stephen King personages in een ruim vijfhonderd tellende turf die ik uitlas op twee dagen… ja, echt zo goed is ie! En wat maakt hem supergoed? Holly Gibney is terug! De heldin uit de Mr. Mercedes trilogie,…
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Nefilim 1. In het Spoor van onze Voorouders
https://www.standaarduitgeverij.be/product/1-in-het-spoor-van-onze-voorouders-9789086771769/ Review: Camden, Arkansas 1864, de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog woedt volop. De strijd om slavernij af te schaffen verdeelt het land en de ‘Blauwen’ (Noordelijken) vechten tegen de ‘Grijzen’ (Rebs, de zuidelijken). Een groepje zwarte soldaten in het leger van de noordelijken merken echter hardhandig dat de strijd ook aan hun kant van de oorlog geen…
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