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I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, YA

Summary: John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those...

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all....

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her...

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 12, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history,...

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 15, 2021 | Book Review, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams,...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a...