⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a great title! Unraveling Oliver is just that. It starts off with Oliver and his wife, Alice, in the throes of an argument where he beats her u conscience. After that we get go back to the beginning of Oliver. We get each persons POV of Oliver through the years as well as narration by Oliver to understand the makings of a sociopath.

I loved the lead up to how it all unfolds or unravels

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is how you do a twisty thriller!!!

I love complicated, complex people, being manipulated by POV all to enhance an exceptional plot! I‘ll definitely be reading more of this author.

This is what Riley Sager attempts to do but doesn‘t quite make it there. Hopefully that author will improve but for now I‘ll keep reading this guy.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😢this book is terrifying!!! Imagine a world where AI will dictate your marriage and Alexa type devices listens to your lives and other end is the government. Marrs never disappoints and his fears about our not so distant future makes The Black Mirror seem like child‘s play.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️five big stars for this deeply dark and disturbing book they explores the psychological damage left by abuse from 2 different perspectives. I found this extremely captivating and devastating at the same time. I‘ll definitely be reading more of this author.

⭐️⭐️appreciate the try and loved his latest book but being inside this characters head was way too long. I‘m not sure what this book is going for but it didn‘t really work for me.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️this guy knows what scares!!! Another new horror author on the scene delivers in atmosphere, dread, creeps and wholly interesting monsters!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️how anyone survived what she did is a miracle. Maybe not unscathed but going forward she gets to decide how tidy or messy her life is. She‘s a grown ass woman. Shame in her family for doing more harm than good😡. Parenting is loving and supportive. Not facilities and Corning someone to work for you. Burns my ass when he says “I‘m Britney Spears now”.

⭐️⭐️unpopular opinion coming. I love this author but this one just wasn‘t for me. It‘s not a bad book! I wasn‘t the audience for it. Too many platitudes and too easy and quick redemption arc.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️a strange, weird, odyssey/Alice in wonderland/wizard of oz bizarreness. I enjoyed the journey, the laughs, the darkness and the 🦀.

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 I can literally feel the influence this author and this story had on H.P. Lovecraft. For me the true horror comes in the feel and atmosphere of dread. And nothing gives off those vibes like being along in the woods. Nature has a way of being terrifying just by being in their realm.

Blackwood had influenced many of our cosmic horror authors and yet they all seem more famous than he. . This was a most satisfying read.

🎃🎃for the most part I found this boring and unsatisfying. Plague, runaway, drive, drive, drive, eat food get to destination and never find out what the hells going on! Cool concept that‘s about it.

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃a perfect fall read for the spooky season. Who knew apples could be so sinister. Move over Stephen King s new boys in town.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I felt like I was reading my own life story! The similarities from book selling, trivia buff, anxiety, serial reader to finding your lost family after being an only child made my heart swell. What a delight!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟this was definitely one of the best memoirs I‘ve read. Succinct, heartfelt, honest and open. Demi Moore grew up scrappy and ended up with serious grit. Being a fan since General Hospital, I feel I‘ve grown up with her.

🌟🌟🌟I feel the subject matter for this was lightly handled. The subject of police shootings of black men is way more complex than this. The tidy ending between the friendship of Jen (white) and Riley (black) I feel would@have been more deeply wounded in the real world. Having been around these conversations with both black people and with cops, I feel my exposure may have allowed me to see that the realities are way deeper.

🎃umm this book was a hot, boring mess. Waste of time! Never really explains anything and throws a bad dog death in there to break your heart for no damn reason. Author needs to do research cause millipedes don‘t bite. Not sure I‘ll read him again. Wasted opportunity.

🎃🎃🎃🎃folk horror at its finest! A perfect book for spooky season.

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Aww this was the perfect book for the fall, Halloween, spooky season!!! Five big pumpkins!

This follows Salem almost a century after the witch trials. Alice and her young daughter come to Salem to find Alice husband who went missing. What she finds is a boatload of mystery, history and spooky shenanigans!

I loved this story with its perfect atmosphere, mystery and some historical elements.

🌟🌟🌟1/2 A pretty good shot at an old, well used trope. Definitely@had some good scary scenes but followed up by some cringe worthy lines of old.

🌟🌟two stars for cover and atmosphere. Other than that, this was a hot mess!

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If you like your fairy tales a bit dark, whimsical and twisty with a side of humor, this is your pick. Some very good elements here with magic, although I found the quest a bit boring at times, which left me putting the book aside.
The characters were fine, the world needed to be explored more deeply for me to get a good handle on it. would have liked more scenes like the goblin market with more magical beings like the toothetaker.

🌟I can‘t pan this book enough! Beyond ridiculous cartoon villains and one dimentional, cliche detectives. Just cause you make it gross doesn‘t make it good. And if your gonna be gross don‘t make it so unrealistic and silly. I mean, I totally laughed and eye rolled my way through this.

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Once I got my sea legs, it was a wild ride! Great characters and interesting creatures, Gullaime has my ♥️. Looking forward to getting back into@the ocean with this awesome trilogy.

🌟🌟 I get it! Perseverance, tenacity, never giving up, pining for youth etc. with that said, there is also a time for letting go.

I love the classics but this one was a huge snooze fest for me. Not a fan of him or his writing system.

The 2 stars is mainly because I gave it a listen and Donald Sutherland‘s voice made me feel cared for.

🌟dipped my toe in extreme horror to see what all@the controversy surrounding this sub-genre is all about. YouTube wars between an author and YouTube reviewer. Well, thank goodness this was short. I love horror, but don‘t need to be grossed out. Nothing scary about it. Cheap thrills. But cool for those that do. Not for me, first and last one.

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A dark and haunting story of the Icelandic convict Agnes Magnúsdóttir. A woman convicted in the 1800s of murdering 2 men along with 2 others in a joint conspiracy.

These Nordic books are definitely something in atmosphere and buildup. This one is based on the true story of Agnes. Told with compassion and ♥️.

🌟what utter trash of a book! I mean can‘t we get a decent shark book and not some rapey, cartoon villain nonsense.

🌟nope! I love a closed room mystery, isolation, trapped in cold books. Unlikeable characters if you can tell them apart, using slasher one by one trope like a bad horror movie. Also, what is the point when you guess who it is by the 3rd chapter of a 10 hour book!!! Ugh! I‘ll read her again and give her another chance.

🌟🌟1/2Tjis was just ok. The main character was unlikeable, which is fine but didn‘t want to be all@in her head so much. Also it lacked world building. I couldn‘t figure out if I was in the future or why they were cloning. No background. Ending was unsatisfying. But the premise was solid.

An absolute snooze fest! I‘m not sure if it was the writing, the bad characters or lack of any tension. But I came away feeling nothing at all.

🙄🙄🙄only 3 because listening was entertaining as far as a story with cartoon people and over the top silliness lol! Perfect for summer walks in the park. For eye rolling and laugh out loud nonsense I give this 3. If I‘d read it, it would definitely be one 🌟

🌟🌟🌟the whole concept of this book was brilliant and unique. However the execution and lack of connection with any of the characters made this book just ok. I couldn‘t feel anything for any of them. But I love the idea of eating a book and absorbing all its knowledge, especially a foreign language lol. The mind eaters were a more horrific. Kind of vampire. Overall I liked but didn‘t love it.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟five big stars! Dark, gothic, mysterious, romance! This is how YA should be done! Absolute favorite!! Beautifully done can I please have another 🥀

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Road trippin giraffes meets Grapes of Wrath only more joyful.

A wonderful coming of age story about the long road trip from New York to San Diego carrying 2 giraffes to the zoo during the dust bowl era

Meet young Woody NIckel and his adventures across the states hitching a ride with to get 2 giraffes to the San Diego zoo. Such colorful characters and lovely life lessons and a fierce love of animals can get you through anything. 🦒🦒

🌟DNF. Started out great! Then by 100 pages in started meandering in the dullest of places. It never gained the steam it had in the beginning so I tapped out. Too many books 📚 to waste time.

🌟🌟🌟a bleak look at small town life in Texas in the early 1950s through the eyes of 3 teens coming of age story. Well written story studying the microcosm of small town American. Wow! It wasn‘t the American dream people go on about. More like American nightmare.

🌟🌟🌟this was mostly a meh for me. But 3 stars for gothic atmosphere, keeping me turning the pages and keeping me super intrigued. And yet the last 100 pages or so ruined it all. Why so many damn twists. One good twist is all I need!!! One good one that leaves the jaws dropped. Not 10 twists that become silly with coincidence.

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John Marrs has not disappointed me yet! So far I can definitely depend on him to entertain me from prologue to epilogue

A deeply engrossing page-turner with twist after crazy twist. My only grumble is the author may have gone on too long with the story, because I started piecing things together a lot earlier than maybe I should have. But that‘s ok, I loved it anyways as I have all his books

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I devoured this book! absolutely loved it! Yes you‘ll know right away that this is a bit like Charlie and the chocolate factory and yes you may figure some things out along the way, but it‘s such a wonderful journey you can‘t help but feel good all over and fall in love with it.

I thought the dialogue and writing style was wonderful. Gave me all the feels. Sometimes you have to just read something that makes you smile 😊 📚📖📙👍🏼

🌟🌟disappointing! If you want good stories read Circe or Ariadne. Medusa was hardly in this. I didn‘t like the modern tone to the language or the portrayal of Perseus. Skip this one.

🌟🌟ok 3rd book by this author and not sure why she‘s rated so highly. Ive listened to them all and they like a campy movie, or feeding on junk food then feeling guilty for afterwards lol. The stories are way unrealistic, cringy in parts and eye rolls everywhere. The characters in this book are unlikeable so who cared. Especially Claire! Not one person responds like normal people would. 🙄i just don‘t get the hype.

🌟blech🤮. Texas Chainsaw massacre meets Old Boy. Predictable, old tropes,no character development so I just don‘t care. If you‘re gonna do horror, don‘t reuse old stories. Be original!

🌟🌟🌟 I honestly think her books are ok. They are sort of not very realistic but are entertaining. I‘ve decided these are best consumed via audiobook. They are too light to engage me fully in a read but do pass the time when listening to them.

Mr. Cosby had done it again! Another tightly woven mystery set in the Deep South that has many layers to peel back. An African American Sheriff fights off racism, secrets, and a dark mystery lying in its grounds. Highly recommend this and all his books!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟beautiful, atmospheric, melancholy. Lyrical. I loved this wonderful retelling tragedy of Ariadne. Recommend!

🌟🌟only because I finished it. The most un-thrilling thriller I‘ve ever read. 🙄

🌟🌟🌟keeps@you turning pages but it‘s pretty predictable. Characters are pretty shallow and not fleshed out well which makes you not really care.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A perfect ending to a brilliant trilogy!

🌟booo! Awful book! I‘m. It here for delusional moms who refuse to see her kid for what he is! She even so much as almost blames the little girls. Also, who throws a dinner party to tell parents their daughters were molested by their son and think it‘s all@gonna be ok. Ugh

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I loved this twisty, atmospheric, trapped in the woods tale. It was super creepy in all the good ways.