Description: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from … [Read more...] about Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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Pretty Little Secrets by Sara Shepard
From the back cover: Rewind to junior year in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, to a winter break no one has ever heard about. Fat snowflakes fall onto manicured lawns, quilted stockings hang over marble fireplaces, and everyone is at peace, especially Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer. Now that Alison's murderer is in jail and A is dead, they can finally relax. Little do they know … [Read more...] about Pretty Little Secrets by Sara Shepard
The Lying Game, Books 2-3 by Sara Shepard
In which I catch up on The Lying Game and circumvent the fact that I don't have much to say about these frothy books by offering two short reviews in one post. Never Have I Ever Former foster child Emma Paxton has assumed the life of her privileged (and murdered) twin sister, Sutton Mercer. The only person who knows her true identity is hunky loner, Ethan Landry. In … [Read more...] about The Lying Game, Books 2-3 by Sara Shepard
Conspiracy 365: January – March by Gabrielle Lord
For 2012, the three of us at Triple Take have decided to focus on YA fiction from Australia and New Zealand. First up is the first volume (January) of Gabrielle Lord's Conspiracy 365 series, in which a teenage boy named Cal must survive attacks on his life for the next 365 days whilst investigating his father's mysterious death. The publishing schedule was pretty nifty for this … [Read more...] about Conspiracy 365: January – March by Gabrielle Lord
Unbelievable by Sara Shepard
From the front flap: Behind Rosewood's grand façades, where the air smells like apples and Chanel No. 5 and infinity pools sparkle in landscaped backyards, nothing is as it seems. It was here, back in seventh grade, that five best friends shared everything—Seven jeans, MAC makeup, and their deepest, darkest secrets. Now someone named A has turned their charmed lives into a … [Read more...] about Unbelievable by Sara Shepard