Pretty Ugly Lies
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What causes a woman to murder her whole family? Jo's idyllic life would make most people jealous....
Girl Made of Stars
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"I need Owen to explain this. Because yes, I do know that Owen would never do that, but I also know...
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Goodbye,Perfect
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When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild - what am I? Eden McKinley knows she...
Earth Unaware (The First Formic War, #1)
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The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto....
Keep You Close
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She knows her teenage son isn't perfect. But when the FBI starts investigating the kid she thought...
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Claimed (Lair of the Wolven, #1)
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Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Ghostwritten in Books
Dec 17, 2023
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Ghostwritten
By Ronald Malfi
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BOOKS CAN BE DEADLY
From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe!
In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths.
A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride.
In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book.
A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality in The Story.
I really enjoyed 3 out of 4 of these stories. My favourite was This Book Belongs to Olo about a lonely boy just wanting to make friends granted he goes the wrong way about it but hey he’s creepy. These are all from the same universe and are all linked in one way or another, they all include a creepy or possessed book. The writing is just brilliant.
David McK (3791 KP) rated Silk Road (Epic Adventure #1) in Books
Jun 29, 2025
I'm glad I did.
Set (initially) in the Holy Land not long after the Third Crusade, this follows Templar Knight Josseran Sarrazini as he is tasked with accompanying the Domincan Friar William as an envoy to the Mongols, just as their previous Khan dies necessitating a journey along the Silk Road of the title towards the Mongolian capital Xanadu - further than either have ever travelled before, and with new experiences for both - and just as a civil war is about to break out amongst the Mongolian nation itself over who will be next Khan.
I may read some more of Falconers's 'Epic Adventure' series in the future.
ClareR (6225 KP) rated Lowest Common Denominator in Books
Feb 10, 2026
LCD bounces around somewhat in time from toddlerhood to the present day. It’s auto fiction, really, although I had to double check that. So I suppose it’s a mix of Saisio’s autobiography that has been fictionalised in places.
I found the details of a child growing up in Finland, Saisio’s communist parents, along with 1950’s Finnish life, fascinating. It also made me curious about the war and occupation of the Russians in Finland, and I consequently did a bit of background reading about that.
I love reading translated books, and the translator, Mia Spangenberg, has made sure that this has lost none of its humour. The relationships between the narrator and their family members are so well drawn. Their experiences, traumas, upbringings and their expectations of this small child make for an engrossing read.