Tag: thriller

Posted in Book Review, Lauren Biel

Wanted: A Look into Dark Themes and Complex Characters

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Wanted by Lauren Biel

Wanted is a DARK GRAY romance novella with high spice and low plot. This home invasion story will leave you questioning if you should leave your door open at night.
I’m wanted.
On the lam, running from the law and my mistakes. The house tucked into the trees seems safe—an excellent place to hide out.
Once inside, I find something unexpected. A nurse that can do more than heal my wounds. But the longer I’m awake, the more reality starts to blur, and I can’t tell what’s real and what’s not anymore.
Plagued by ill fantasies and temptation, I try to keep her safe from me. It works until the lines between us also begin to blur.
Vanessa, like her home, will never be the same once I get inside.
Wanted is a dark, spicy novella with a plethora of content advisories. It’s part of Lauren Biel’s “after dark” collection, and warnings on LaurenBiel.com should be taken seriously.

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Posted in Book Review, Tate James

The Steamy Dark Conclusion to the Madison Kate Series; Kate

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Kate by Tate James

Kate is the fourth and final book in the Madison Kate series, barring the novella Vault, which Tate James recommends reading after the Hades series, see below screen grab.

Kate sees everything from the past 3 books concluded, we find out who ordered the hit on MK which sees MK and the boys injured but alive thank goodness. We also find out who MK’s stalker is that was a twist for the books and most importantly we get the happy ending we all need.

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Posted in Book Review, Tate James

Madison Kate’s journey gets even darker in the third installment; Fake.

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Fake by Tate James

Fake is book 3 in the Madison Kate Series. This book finishes off where we ended in Liar. Madison Kate has just found out that her father sold her to Archer, and she is married to him. Madison Kate left with Zane, and the beginning of Fake MK is back in Shadow Grove after being away in Aspen with Bree. MK has her own apartment in a building with some of the Reapers, including Cass, whom MK starts going to the gym and learning how to punch. In Aspen, they met Scott, whom they became friends, and he transferred to SGU to be with MK, even though she had told him she wasn’t interested. They remain friends, but Scott is acting creepy. Archer, Kody & Steele are trying to win her back, and she, of course, crumbles. More attempts are made on MK’s life, and her stalker is still active. She believes the stalker to be Scott when he barges into her home and she shoots him, killing him, only for her stalker to say whoops, wrong person, and her stalker shoots Steele.

I never miss

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Posted in Book Review, Tate James

Madison Kate’s Dark Journey in Liar: A Five-Star Review

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Liar by Tate James

After finishing Hate, which is book one in this series, and you can find my review for it here, I knew I had to jump straight into book 2. If you have not read book one, you may want to skip this review, as there will most likely be book one spoilers.

This book follows directly on from book one, where our FMC, Madison Kate, is in the hospital after being attacked. She believed that Archer was the one who stabbed her, and the boys were banned from the hospital. Madison Kate then decides to discharge herself early and stay at a hotel instead of coming home, but obviously, Archer finds her and drags her home. In this book, we see more of MK’s stalker, and the relationship between MK & the boys is heating up. We also learn more about Zane, who is Archer’s brother, and more attempts are made on MK’s life.

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Posted in Book Review, Tate James

Madison Kate’s Journey: Love, Revenge, and Bad Boys

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Hate by Tate James

The first thing that drew me to this book was the cover. That neon green and pink against the black just spoke to me. I had seen that my friends on TikTok had read the series, and I trusted their views. When I saw the set at a good price, I had to pick them up.

Hate is the first book in the four-book Madison Kate series. It is followed by Liar, Fake, and Kate. I believe these are reverse harem.

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Posted in Book Review, Harleigh Beck

Exploring Love and Violence in Obsession by Harleigh Beck

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Obsession by Harleigh Beck

Obsession is a book which focuses on Robbie, an inmate on death row convicted of killing multiple women and Savannah, a journalist who Robbie requested to interview him before he is given the lethal injection. Savannah is drawn to Robbie despite his being a notorious killer and being the same age as her dad. Robbie is likewise drawn to Savannah and will stop at nothing to have her. This is a dark thriller romance which contains graphic sexual scenes and graphic violence, check the trigger warnings.

Rule number one: Don’t fall for the sob story.

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Posted in Book Review, Brooklyn Cross

Exploring Derek’s Dark Story in the Consumed Trilogy

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Consumed Triolgy by Brooklyn Cross

At the end of 2024 I asked 12 friends to each recommend me a book, as I wanted to partake in the 12 friends, 12 months, 12 books challenge that I saw on TikTok but I wanted to not just create a post, I wanted to add it to my book journal and read one of the books each month.

My beautiful friend Corina gave me the Consumed Trilogy as her recommendation. Now I technically only needed one book and was just going to read book one, but I ended up reading all three.

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Posted in Book Review, freida-mcfadden

Thrilling Short Story Review: A Must-Read from Amazon First Reads

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I downloaded this book because it was the bonus read for May’s Amazon First Reads, I didn’t know if I would ever read it but it was free so I downloaded it.

I have previously read the Housemaid Series by Freida McFadden and I enjoyed book 1 and 2, book 3 not as much but I wasn’t blown away by them enough to think about picking another one of her books up, I have some on my shelf but these were purchased before I read the Housemaid Series. Don’t get me wrong she isn’t a bad writer at all, just quite predictable I feel, but like I said I haven’t read any other books by her.

I had just finished a thriller that I didn’t enjoy and thought why not give this a try it’s only 79 pages.

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Posted in Book Review, Maria Frankland

Booktok Group Reads: Our Thriller Experience

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I Don’t Like Mondays by Maria Frankland

There’s a bit of a story behind how this book got chosen, so bear with me. Me and a group of friends who all met through booktok, have a WhatsApp group where we talk about books and also lots of other stuff, but it centres around books. Each month, we decide to do a group read. This month, we each picked a genre and put it in a spinny wheel, as we usually chose a Dark Romance read and wanted something different. These were the genres up for grabs: Thriller, Gothic Horror, Rom Com, Romantasy (this was my genre), Cowboy Romance and Erotic Horror.

Thriller was the genre that the wheel chose, and then we each had to put forward a thriller book to go into another wheel. These were the choices:

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