Welcome to Litsy!

An intense page turner about a female friendship spanning many years and continents. Their travel adventures bring them to points a reader couldn‘t imagine. Told in an unconventional timeline with flashbacks and true to life memory fog turned clear. I was glued to the pages. Suspense, friendship, & introspection abound.

At 50%, I was really annoyed. I hate repetition. It makes me feel like the author doesn‘t trust me to put things together on my own. But! I was invested enough to find out if I was right about the ending. I actually guessed most of the plot twists, but the ones I didn‘t gave me whiplash. I think we‘ve all had that toxic friendship (or several) that we desperately wanted to end, but then found filled some unidentified need. Spot on!

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Happy Thanksgiving All! Hope everyone had a food filled relaxing day 🦃 #TimeForWatsonSnuggles #NewEnglandIsGettingChilly

What if a crime on foreign shores revealed your BFF was not who she seemed? Travelers can relate to the wanderlust, and things get very intense, very quickly! Great thriller so far. #loveit #audiobook #tension

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😳 If you've read this, let's talk about that ending!

Trying to read but…….. #dogsoflitsy

Starting a thriller for Halloween week! 👻 another Reese‘s book club recommendation, they never let me down! #andreabartz #wewereneverhere

Emily and Kristen are best friends who would do anything for each other. Even help hide a dead body.

Literally.

This story was a shining example of gaslighting and had a very strong opening. Certainly an easy read but the ending left me wanting something…different. I just was not completely satisfied - probably because I felt like the build up was worth something more!

Loved the “ride or die” friendship mentality the girls had with each other.

Started this one today!

#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter #LittenListen #bookspinbingo #spookoweenreadathon #screamathon #wickedathon #readlikhellathon #Halloweenreadathon @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @TheSpineView @4thhouseontheleft @StayCurious

I've seen a lot of mixed reviews on this one but I quite enjoyed it! Solid premise - what happens when you realize the relationship with your best friend is toxic, and there's no good way to end things because she's controlling and literally knows where the bodies are buried. Things slowly begin to unravel, and the tension built nicely. I just thought the ending dropped the ball a bit. I see why Reese picked it up, would be a good movie! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Starting the tagged book and this graphic is so accurate! I think Moxie likes the smell of library books 😂🐾

I really enjoyed this one!! I haven‘t read Bartz‘s previous novels but I want to now! This is about the dark side of friendship & traumatic events that bind them. I really enjoyed Emily‘s narration & u could really root for her. As the story unfolds her BFF Kristen becomes more & more possessive & suffocating. The tension really escalated throughout & then it all comes to a head. This would make a great movie or mini series. I recommended it!

Read in one day - had to know the end and could not put it down

Loved the suspense and the build. Ending was a bit meh but overall fun read. Perfect beach/plane ride book. You never know who you can trust!

This was fine. There were times it lost its way a bit, but the pacing was good, and the buildup was also. Something about had me struggling, took me much longer to read then a light thriller like this normally would.

Another audiobook hold became available. 😫

While I believe I can get through them all, I'm nevertheless feeling the pressure.

#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

September month of books. See previous as well. Loved Intimacies and Deacon King Kong. On to October.

DNF- this book starts great, but quickly dies plot-wise and character-wise . At 50% I am struggling to even want to pick it back up. Life is short. I quit.

Mayhem cats looks disappointed in my ambitious #weeklyforecast stack. I hope she is wrong. I had hoped to finish the tagged over the weekend but didn't get there.

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This one started it pretty slow but the last 1/4 kept me in some suspense. It wasn't completely predictable, which was nice. It wasn't bad - just not overly great.

#twofortuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the Tag @DarkMina

1. Teal/blue
2. No, but I looked at my shelf for color trends to confirm: I think there‘s typical just trends in merchandising. Female driven mysteries/domestic thrillers are typically blue hues with pink or yellow pops and male driven action/horror are red and black.

So if I want to read a family drama murder mystery (I do), it‘ll probably be my favorite color.

Tagged a rainbow cover

*Somebody* doesn't want to let me read tonight.🙄

A pair of bffs plan a yearly escape to an exotic locale (written w/enough detail to transport you there, but not bog the book down). In Cambodia, 1 of the duo invites a male traveler for a romantic encounter &he turns violent. He ends up dead(no sympathy from me)&they disappear. then something similar happens in Chile.. are they a beacon for bad luck? who is really to blame?
Enjoyable
A few loose details that left me ⁉️
But over all a wild story.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ This one really latched onto my brain and dug in; very enjoyable slow burn thriller. ...But. That ending. 🤯 WHAT?! Cannot process. I don't even know what to do with it. It brings up so many more questions of HOW, then WHY, and more HOW?! Idk. 🤷🤔😲🤯

The best way to spend a Sunday afternoon. ❤

End of summer vibes with this story of friendship, travel and… murder. ☀️✈️🔪

I had an eye exam at Target and this book was on sale 🤣📚📚📚📚 so now it‘s here

What a disappointment! I was into the premise of the story with such a strong beginning! I delved into the first five chapters-and then-it took a downward fall full of uneventful dialogue and details. I felt like narrator was just dragging on with no direction. This story could have been cut by 100 pages or so, which might have made the plot more eventful and thrilling.

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I slogged through this and the narrator annoyed me to no end.. I think I‘m in the minority here, but I couldn‘t wait for this to be done; and not in the suspense-is-killing-me way 🙃 #botm

Me, convincing myself not to stay up until 3am to finish this!!! 😂😂 64% and I am hooked!

I started this one late last weekend but only had time for a few chapters. Diving in fully now! 🤓

Whenever Reese Witherspoon decides she loves a book, I see that book everrrryyyywhere. There is no escaping a Reese Book Club pick! There are MANY things I cannot be brainwashed by, but books, nope. Show me the same book over and over and eventually….I‘m reading it lol so Reese (and big tech who constantly promote it) I‘m reading this one for you. #botm

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I was filled with slow-building anxiety and dread while reading this, but couldn‘t look away! It‘s a psychological thriller that‘s both pulse-pounding and thought-provoking; a chilling look at toxic friendship and power with razor-sharp insight to how the world tries to keep women‘s lives small and fearful.

I would love to hear what others think about the ending - I‘ll post my spoiler thoughts in the comments! #reesesbookclub #BOTM

It's taken a week to slog through this & now I'm finished I don't know what to say. The premise is good but it didn't quite live up to its promise. For a thriller it was a bit tedious. The MC was as limp as they come, until the last couple chapters when we're left even more unsure of the truth rather than having things cleared up. And that last line...WTF???
Also Reese and Modern Mrs Darcy have really been letting me down this year. I think ⬇️

I feel meh about this one. I don‘t get the hype or the 5 ⭐️ reviews. I mean it was ok but not one I‘d say rush out and pick up. Once again wondering if I want to continue blindly picking up a Reese Book Club selection. Emily and Kristen take girl‘s trips and dead bodies seem to turn up around them. Is it a case of self defense or something else? ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Attempted to start ‘The Scarlet Letter‘ today but that lasted about 15-20 minutes before I noped that and went with the tagged book. So far interesting. I‘m waiting for a big big twist to happen.
If the office was anything like today I‘ll get a lot of time to listen. I‘m a blue thinker/person in a deeply red area. 😵‍💫🙄🤯

This thriller has so many twists and turns that you feel gaslighted just like the main character much of the time!

Two best friends go on a trip to Chile and end up with a dead body in their room, but this has happened to them before…

#Libby #ebook #Kindle

This book was okay. Two friends go traveling together and someone dies and then repeat for next year. Not really surprising how it turned out. Mostly the cover is really pretty 🤷🏼‍♀️
Trigger warning for various reasons but mostly sexual assault.
#LittensDressedInBlood @MidnightBookGirl

I'm starting this tale of creepy friendship while I have just a few more hours in the mountains I love. I've seen very mixed reviews, here's hoping I like it. 🤞🏻

I enjoyed it.

I know this is the month of the thriller for me, but I‘m not a fan of this one. I got 50% in and it was obvious from 10% in where it was going. Do I care to stick around for a final twist? Not really. 👎🏻 Sorry not sorry Reese.

Another fun meeting of the Reese‘s Book Club.

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A fun thriller although somewhat nerve-racking...

This thriller has riddles and commentary about how women live in a constant state of fear. What regular micro-harassment and gaslighting that we all deal with can eventually do to our psyche. Though it can be slightly predictable, I think it stands on it‘s own.

Kristen and Emily are best friends on a trip to Chile, trying to shake off a violent episode the happened on their last trip. When a similar event occurs, Emily starts questioning things and a bit of a cat and mouse game commences. I really liked this thriller and loved the ending, which is pitch perfect.

Book 94/150 of the year.