Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
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One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico,...
I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army
Erin Baines, Evelyn Amony and A. Buck Kachaluba
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More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel...
The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
Andrew Pickering and Keith Guzik
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In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a...
Reverie: A Lesbian Romance
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Small town love isn't always quaint: A lesbian romance... with some twists. Lucinda Hamilton...
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Hidden Valley Road
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the...
Merissa (14003 KP) rated Beautiful Facade in Books
Feb 2, 2021 (Updated Aug 7, 2023)
This was a thoroughly enjoyable novel, told from the first perspective of the main female character. It was pretty clear from the start that Winter wouldn't end up with Liam, and their picture-perfect life wasn't as good as she imagined. I did enjoy the question mark over who was with him and was glad I was wrong. I won't say more as I don't want to ruin it!
The scene-setting was very well done, with a bunch of flawed characters as the supporting cast. If I had to say anything negative about this book, it would be the copious amount of alcohol that was drunk for the majority of the story, plus the number of texts and missed calls Winter had. If I had that many from one person in that amount of time, I'd be worried about their mental health!
On the whole, this was a great, smoothly-paced story that held my attention from beginning to end, that I have no hesitation in recommending.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Feb 2, 2021
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Silent Patient in Books
Sep 2, 2023
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The Silent Patient
By Alex Michaelides
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The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
This was so so good!! It kept you completely sucked and and that ending was a WTF moment for me I did not see that coming at all! Brilliant!
This Boy
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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was...
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
Sarah Death and Astrid Lindgren
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'A breathtaking read' - Die Welt One of the twentieth century's greatest children's writers - and...