⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The psycho babysitter is a bit cliché so I worried it would be another “been there, read that” situation, but nope; this book is written well and plot advanced quickly. The “domestic thriller” has become a difficult one to navigate since Gone Girl but Watch Out separates itself by being a bit less “shocking” and more character driven with constant questioning of which of these well-painted characters are trustworthy. Full ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ one of my best of 2022! This taut, suspenseful what-the-whaa book reads like fiction until you pause to remind yourself: THIS. IS. REAL. 100% REAL, and that‘s why the heeby-jeeby factor runs high. 😳And along with this smack-me-in-the-face reality comes crushing sympathy for the families and friends who lost loved ones in truly terrible ways. How they pick up those pieces is a testament to the human spirit. Full review ScrappyMags.com

I was 100% insulted by this book as a female reader. Women are not magnanimously stupid so please stop writing them as such. Here‘s my chief review point, spoiler be damned: the author portrays not 1 but 2 women who suffer physical abuse who then convince themselves they aren‘t abused, in favor of them being… “drunk” and/or “crazy.” Yup. I really just read that. In 2022. Full review ScrappyMags.com

A book about people I kinda wanna slap. HARD. 😆 Marissa & Matthew are the Golden Couple until Marissa reveals infidelity & they seek out Avery, a 10-session “therapist.” Oh, then everything goes completely cray-cray.
𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: I may be a bit (𝐀. 𝐋𝐎𝐓.) over the domestic poor-beautiful-rich-chick-with-problems-she-causes-herself-boo-hoo thriller books that I‘m eye rolling this one hard. VERY. Hard. ScrappyMags.com for full review

I said brrr, It‘s cold in here! Val is an anxiety-fighting linguist grappling with the suicide of her twin Andy, when fellow scientist Wyatt calls for help. In Greenland. He claims to have thawed a native girl from ice who speaks an unknown language. Cue the cocoa! Everything about this book is chilling - from the location, to the cold demeanor of some characters, to the biting plot. 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐲‘𝐚𝐥𝐥. ScrappyMags.com full review

Yikes, let‘s NOT party like it‘s 1999! Three teens are dead, one left alive. Flashback fifteen years ago, New Year‘s Eve 1999 and the same crime occurred at a Blockbuster video. Many interesting characters and a few hmmms and ooooohs, questions and drama - all the elements that mixed together made a well-seasoned, perfectly-paced, minute-by-suspenseful-minute enjoyable mystery. Full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dark missive that touched this teacher‘s heart… From the first page, author J.J. Bola wants the reader to see Michael separate, all the way to the telling of the story - dual viewpoints: first person from Michael in London versus third person Michael in America, almost as if the moment he arrives in the U.S., a disconnect is established and someone else has to tell his painful story. It IS painful. And raw. And REAL. ScrappyMags.com

I avoided all reviews on this book once I realized it was an “IT” book to read, and so happy I did. I felt like I had to keep looking over my shoulder the whole time, so either I‘m paranoid or this book grabbed my senses and didn‘t let go. Deliciously twisted. Just how I like it. 😈 full review ScrappyMags.com

Ohhhh man this one was good fun. If you‘re weird like me and consider a weekend murder read “fun” (yep I do, I truly do), this won‘t disappoint. You want to hate so many characters in the book - rich, spoiled, annoying, but find comfort because you won‘t be alone. Many characters in the book are right there hating‘ on each other. You just have to unearth the “why?” Happy digging. ScrappyMags.com for full review

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 The word I would use for this police procedural mystery is “basic.” It‘s basically good. Basically quick. It‘s basically effective and plot-driven. Copenhagen. 15-year old Oscar is missing, & everyone is asking, “Did he run away?” Or did something nefarious happen? Enter Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, the duo of detectives who swim through family secrets, hidden notes, clandestine messages, and Some really dead bodies. ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A bit overhyped for me, but a solid psychological read that had me guessing. Twist! Wondering how many of the writers here would jump at the chance to ghost write for a crazy famous author? 🤔 Full review at ScrappyMags.com

Love! Molly Gray is used to being misunderstood. The only person who helped her understand this crazy, verbally-confusing world was her dear grandma, who died some months ago. Molly absorbs herself in her work as a hotel maid until one day a maid nightmare comes true - finding a dead body. Suddenly Molly is thrust into an investigation- one that‘s firmly pointing the finger of guilt at her as the #1 suspect. Full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Pure paradise page-turning murdery, evil fun here! This is the COVID society antidote right here - shameless, guilty-reading pleasure with paradise as the setting. Hawkins has found her stride in this novel and what I‘m discovering is she takes RISKS in her writing (YES!!!!), and I‘m in the front row applauding. Full review at ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ballard will always be Olivia Benson to me… 😂 Connelly nails what it‘s like during the pandemic- masks, those who don‘t wear them and working in the public - being a cop in 2021. I related as a teacher to all of it including the career fatigue all mixed in with an edge-of-the-seat mystery (2 actually!)… one of Connellys best. Full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️. Bit “been there” for me - full review ScrappyMags.com. Dani Callahan lost her daughter Tinsley 5 years ago - taken. Right from school. A parents‘ worst nightmare. This traumatic event propelled Dani into a new life as a private investigator, helping others to find their loved ones. Divorced now and working with her side-kick-chick Quinn (whose mother went missing), they take on the case of a missing 17 year old named Ali

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diana O‘Toole is the proverbial New York “has it all” girl: amazing job, dedicated boyfriend, a wondrous, goal-oriented life planned out in pristine perfect detail. Until she doesn‘t have anything. COVID interrupts and Diana is separated from it all - stranded on the Galápagos Islands. Diana makes due, makes a few friends, adapts to her new life, and in the process questions every one of her life choices… full review ScrappyMags.com

Man, this has Hollywood movie script, M. Night Shyamalan written allllll over it! I haven‘t enjoyed twists this good since I binged some Twizzlers yo! Okay now that I‘ve got that out of my system, ugh my reading has been side-lined due to a new job. Absolutely LOVED the angle of this one - a past in a foreign country, crazy weird events, and there‘s me, just lapping up mystery like a dog in his bowl. Full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review Scrappymags.com Annalisa Vega is a legacy cop, and that legacy includes finding The Lovelorn Killer, the same serial killer her father hunted 20 years ago. Now, the killer has gone after Grace, an avid member of an online amateur sleuth group, and Vega has drawn Lovelorn‘s attention in her pursuit to uncover what it was that Grace knew and why that resulted in her death…

In 3: “Friendship in words.” 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: Theo and Joel have a long history, all the way back to high school where they promised one day to hike the Thames Path together. But then they never spoke… until now at age 30. Joel seems the epitome of success while Theo is its antithesis. But Joel is hiding a secret - the reason he truly wants to spend time with Theo. Full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: William Melville, the now-deceased queen‘s personal bodyguard, uncovers a nefarious plot to kill the Kaiser of Germany at the queen‘s pending funeral. He teams with Gustav Steinhauer - his contemporary from Germany to unveil who is the assassin “Akushku” before the funeral proceeds… full review at ScrappyMags.com!

🌟🌟🌟🌟 MM is a new favorite and Quiet does NOT disappoint. If you‘ve been side eyeing some neighbors doing COVID this one‘s for you! 😂 Ruby Fletcher is acquitted of murder and returns to live with her roomie in their quiet neighborhood… except everyone still thinks Ruby is guilty. Is she? Check out the full review at ScrappyMags.com!

🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 (scrappymags.com for full review). 🤯!!! I am not a big Sci-Fi reader but I‘m starting to vastly appreciate this genre of Sci-Fi Mystery. 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 is inventive, intelligent, and ingenious - a fast ride that had me gripping the book handlebars from first page to last. Truly a mind-bender, blower, exploder. Summary: Madison May has this tiny little problem; she keeps getting murdered across different worlds by the same man…

When you kinda hope they all die? Not a good sign. My main issue was the unrealistic “final girl” aspect - it‘s a movie trope, not a REAL thing. Who knows ANY final girl IRL? They have stalkers and weirdos who try to get them? Uhhh I‘m pretty sure this would be on Dateline. It was implausible and each chapter ended with some like “a scared girl. Running girl. Final girl.” CHEESE. Full review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3846573838

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Kindergarten 101: Never, ever, ever talk to strangers. (Full review scrappymags.com)

⏰ 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: It‘s 1991. After the murder of her roommate and as a serial killer stalks the campus, Charlie Jordan desperately needs a ride home to Ohio, so she enlists the help of Josh Baxter whom she meets at a ride-share board. But the further she drives the further she suspects something isn‘t quite right with “Josh.”

An English teacher 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A tale, a fable, and some bangin‘ good literature… 🔥 There‘s a fairy-tale, “other world”, almost pagan quality to this novel. A dash of Mysticism. A pinch of Magic. It feels something like a dream in places, but then realistic and down to earth in others. Symbolism is rampant in the forest, the river, and all the nature elements. Full review at Scrappymags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ꪮꫝ ᦓ᭙ꫀꫀꪻ, ᦓ᭙ꫀꫀꪻ rꫀꪜꫀꪀᧁꫀ... If you‘ve ever thought for a split second of having an Angela Bassett burn-your-cheating-husband‘s-stuff-up-in-his-Mercedes moment (Waiting to Exhale, BEST. REVENGE. SCENE. EVER.), and you saw that movie and cheered with your SO side-eyeing you the entire time? Oh this book is soooooo for you. Scrappymags.com for full review

🍸 𝙄𝙩‘𝙨 𝙖 𝘿𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙠, 𝘽𝙞-𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨! 🍸 Sophie O‘Neill has a gorgeous hubby and an adorable son, but her ho-hum upper middle class Texas life needs some kick. Enter Margot Banks - the Regina George with minions, money, and martinis! Sophie can‘t help but fall under her spell and soon becomes embroiled in murder. http://scrappymags.com/2021/05/22/book-review-the-hunting-wives-by-may-cobb/

Best of 2021!! Please read my review on this - scrappymags.com Jenny Lawson battles many things - depression, anxiety, cock chafers... say whaaaa? Life is tough, yo. Yup, welcome to Lawson‘s world where she combats mental illness, conquers her fears (um... ok maybe one), and engages is a war of words with her hubby Victor (spoiler: Lawson always wins). Strange and hilarious thoughts are discussed in her irreverent, hysterical way.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Even detectives can‘t run away... perfect summer-is-almost-here mystery read! Anna, a San Francisco detective is running away, to the only place she feels roots, Northern Cali. But if she thought she‘d clear her head she‘s mistaken because girls are missing and things are looking “sus.” Anna joins up with local police to nab the culprit while battling her own demons and depression. Scrappymags.com full review!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Even detectives can‘t run away...Anna, a San Fran detective is running away, or getting away... to the only place she feels roots, Northern Cali, where she resided with her loving foster parents. But if she thought she‘d clear her head she‘s mistaken because girls are missing and as my middle school students would say, things are looking “sus.” Anna dives in and joins up with local police to nab the culprit... full review scrappymags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Edwardian urban dictionary? 🤔Historical fiction - a woman who loves words & discovers more thru life. Add in the tumult of the Suffragists and I‘m in literary heaven! Full review Scrappymags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I never suspected love and forgiveness could be so layered, but this book reveals shades like the dawning of a new day. Full review at ScrappyMags.com Caroline finds out thru DNA testing she has a 1/2 sister named Sela. While Caroline comes to terms with dad‘s infidelity, Sela wages a war against chronic kidney disease.This book explores what family and love mean. To someone like me with chronic illness? This book hit a soft spot.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ makes Regina George look like a nun. ScrappyMags.com full review. Amb returns to Wesleyan (10 yr reunion) where whispers abound, rumors are reborn and fake kisses and hugs prevail. Amb is married, but she has kept this part of her past in the past. One problem - someone is sending “I-know-what-you-did” letters to her..This one is SINISTER. Get ready for the muck of wicked people. Wade in it. Watch out for the sharks. They are circling.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 I applaud Oliva for creating a novel that tickles my cerebral side while still offering the exciting escape of an intense mystery! If you grew up abandoned by your mom, uncertain what happened to your sister, left to fend for yourself... and then everything crashes back. Full review ScrappyMags.com

This is a book that made me mad, sick, and troubled - which is what it should be. I was engrossed in every shocking turn and several moments forgot I was reading non-fiction. I‘m off to go hug my mom...Liza has a pretty awful mom who drags her around working jobs, partying, and leaving her kids w/random people. One of these random people was serial killer Tony Costa. Liza‘s recollection is captured here. Full review on ScrappyMags.com

Out March 2!!! “Pulse-pounding mystery...the entire book strips layer by layer a fascinating, captivating tale of a family that simply wants truth, even if the price to pay is their lives. “” - ScrappyMags.com Starred review! (I‘m needing my blood pressure meds on this one!)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Hugging my neighbors... even THAT one!

Shortest Summary Ever: There‘s a group of neighbors on Long Island. A queen bee named Rhea. A giant sink hole. A child falls in. And the neighbors lose their minds. This book is the big WHAT IF. what if you were with THE world‘s worst neighbors, in a neighborhood that‘s literally and figuratively being swallowed by blackness and depravity. The book isn‘t for Ev1 but full review ScrappyMags.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Creepy British countryside church? Strange airings? I‘m soooo there. Weird and horrible things happened to the last vicar and now Vicar Jack and teen daughter Flo are experiencing strange moments as well. The townspeople are secretive and quiet and Jack sets out to discover the story...no matter the consequences. ScrappyMags.com for full reviews

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All these feels - wrecked and uplifted all in one. Psychologist Tallie stops a man about to jump off a bridge. Talking him down, she offers him a ride... the story evolves from there as Tallie befriends Emmett. Full review on ScrappyMags.com but this is a close to home with my own battles with mental health. Recommend to those who struggle or those who wish to understand...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It‘s about the black sheep. Brothers. Parents. It‘s about how those roles can be the biggest assets and the largest curses. And there‘s a murder. John Hart is a favorite time and time again. Fan-girl swoon! Full review at ScrappyMags.com! @StMartinsPress

This was good - a wonderful medium mystery but it wasn‘t a super WOW for me. Sadie is a wanna-be professional actress struggling to pay rent when a job lands in her mailbox - a murder mystery at Raven Hall. Flashback to Beth who lived in There as a foster child. Beth reveals strange incidents...What darkness lurks in the dark of Raven Hall? Full review: http://scrappymags.com/2021/01/12/book-review-the-perfect-guests-by-emma-roys/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So much to discuss if you read this! Kezi, a popular YouTube influencer, dies mysteriously and becomes a rallying case for a BLM-type movement. Kezi left behind a legacy and a family that wishes to preserve it, so sister Happi, older sister Genny , and Kezi‘s bestie embark on a trip Kezi had planned out using the Greenbook for Negro Motorists as a map. And then a crazy, life-altering ride begins... full review: http://scrappymags.com

Domestic Fiction retelling of Jane Eyre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me. Highly recommend if you like a little sassier Jane. Don‘t recommend to Eyre purists. Full review here: http://scrappymags.com/2021/01/03/hmmm-did-you-hear-that-book-review-of-the-wife...

Legal drama at its finest! Mickey Haller is now the defendant after a body is discovered in the trunk of his car. Riveting! Man I love these books and sooooo want a movie!

Fans of Ozark... this one might be for you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review Scrappymags.com Charlie Parker has a score to settle. His wife and daughter murdered, he finds himself in Cargill, AR an “armpit “ of America. Girls are dying in horrifying ways - some prefer to sweep them away and save the town‘s image. Parker is pulled in to help a local officer - while most don‘t want him there & go to lengths to keep Parker away and the town secrets hushed

So there‘re are idiots. And I loved them. I hated them too because, well, they are idiots. And the worst hostages in a failed bank robbery - EVER. Full review Scrappymags.com but I‘ll say this / it‘s refreshing in a time I see some of the worst in people because I‘m failing to notice the good that hides in terrible times. ❤️❤️💕❤️💕

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ one of my Best of Fall 2020 picks! Just who IS the bad guy? Saffyre is a troubled teen. Roan is her former therapist in an idyllic, posh London neighborhood with his pretentious wife and their kids. Owen Pick is that oddball neighbor across the street - ya know the one who is quiet and “keeps to himself”All 3 become entwined when Saffyre disappears. Secrets lurk and someone knows more than they are saying...full review ScrappyMags.com

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Yeah this one had me at “demon” lol... it‘s more mystery (not horror) and not too grisly (eh... 6/10 on that scale) but it‘s on a ship during the witch fervor of the 1600s. A historical fiction mystery that will definitely please lovers of the genre! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review at Scrappymags.com

Never ever sleeping again. Ever. Nope. Nope. Nope. Thoroughly horrified... and I like it! Lol! For all the lovers of psycho books... here‘s one for you! Full review at Scrappymags.com ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shortest Summary Ever: Lena has been held hostage along with her 2 children. One night the unthinkable happens - she‘s free, only to wind up in hospital, hit by a car. What happened, who is she, and is the nightmare truly over?