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Truly Madly Guilty

“Life was all about consequences.” Author: Liane Moriarty Clementine and Sam seem to have it all: a happy family, cute children, impressive careers. It’s suburban bliss. At least, it is to Clementine’s best friend/pseudo enemy, Erika. Erika and Oliver pretend to have it all together. Erika is precise, all-business, and yet vampiric in her neediness. The untold, not-so-surprising secret is that Erika wants Clemetine’s messy suburban life. She and Oliver have been trying for years to unsuccessfully have children, endless rounds of painful IVF leaving the couple hopeless and forlorn. On the outside, however, all is well. Clementine and Sam and [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-22T19:46:51-07:00November 22nd, 2025|Tags: book review, drama, fiction, Liane Moriarty, read, reading|

Butcher and the Wren, The

“Nothing is worse than being forgotten.” Author: Alaina Urquhart After starting the Dr. Wren Muller series out of order, reading and falling hard for The Butcher Game, I went back to the inception of a killer. The Butcher and the Wren is the first in the series, and it follows Jeremy Rose’s rise to fame as the Bayou Butcher and his entanglement with Dr. Wren, a forensic pathologist who is hot on his trail and has a personal vendetta against him. Jeremy started his tendency towards violence young, dragging a friend into his escalating schemes and cover-ups. As author Alaina Urquhart [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-21T21:33:24-07:00November 21st, 2025|Tags: book review, Butcher and the Wren, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Cold Eternity

The Cold, Restless Dead Author: S.A. Barnes The Elysian Fields, a giant barge of a spaceship carrying cryogenically frozen corpses from the hopeful past, is not what it seems. But then again, neither is Halley, so how can she complain that her job as a steward of this ghost ship is not as described? Halley is on the run, and The Elysian Fields asked no questions and seems like the perfect hide-out. Every three hours she tours the ship, makes sure the dead are safe, and pushes a button. But are the dead really dead on this ship? Her boss – [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-21T12:16:26-07:00November 21st, 2025|Tags: horror, reading, sci-fi, science fiction, space|