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House by Frank Peretti

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter House – where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose…and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules...

77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse – and was rumored to be more than half mad – after his wife and two children disappeared in 1897 and were never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when...

The Silver Crown by Robert O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, YA

Summary: On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the...

The Memory of Love by Linda Olsson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force...

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Book Review, Classic, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: In the world of the near future, who will control women’s bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets in which signs are now pictures instead of words...