Genre: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

The Silent Watcher by Victor M..

Posted 07/10/2026 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

A while ago I requested to read a couple of Victor Methos books through NetGalley. One was The Silent Watcher and the other was The Grave Singer. Unfortunately, at the time, I couldn’t get into either of them and because I had no good reason for it, I chose to mark them as DNF on NetGalley. But, I’ve been seeing a couple of the people I follow on TikTok talking about how much they enjoy Victor Methos’ books and so I decided to use my Kindle Unlimited subscription to give him another chance. I am quite glad I did. Characters There are four main characters in this book that I’m going to talk about and none of them are our villain because, I don’t want to talk about that piece of scum, thank you very much. First we have Piper Danes – a guardian ad litem for the city of […]

The Bachelorette Party by Cari..

Posted 05/31/2024 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

I just want to thank HarperCollins for sending me this book – I got it late September/early October last year and just now got around to reading it. As per usual when it takes me awhile to get around to reading a book, I wish I’d read it sooner! I could not put this book down. I think I started it around 8PM and finished it just after midnight. Ms. Lynch wrote this book with so many secrets, twists, and turns that I couldn’t stop reading because I had to know what was coming next. We have six main characters: All of them come with their own sets of secrets, reasons why they might be a murder victim or why they might have committed the murder. Oh, by the way, you don’t find out who was actually murdered until nearly the end of the book… even though you start off […]

The Close by Jane Casey

Posted 10/25/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

By now we should all know that if a book is a horror, thriller, or mystery, I’m probably going to want to read it. So when HarperCollins reached out and asked if I’d like to read The Close by Jane Casey, I said yes pretty quickly. Thank you to HarperCollins for sending me this book and facilitating my honest review. Characters The Close has an interesting cast of characters, beginning with Maeve Kerrigan. I admit, I do quite like our main character and I love the leading man, Josh Derwent as well. They’re well written and even though this was my first encounter with them, I found myself full immersed in their story. As for characters that should be unique to this particular book, my annoyance with Rhys Vonn has rarely been matched with other characters. Trust me when I say, he’s an ass. Not overly fond of Mike Knox, […]

Duplicity by Shawn Wilson

Posted 07/11/2022 by Charli in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

I’m going to be quite honest – this review will be short. I’ve been trying to keep to using the CAWPILE headings for my reviews, but for this book, I think I’m just going to keep it short and sweet. Duplicity is a decent book – it earned 3 stars, but it’s honestly nothing to write home about. For one thing, we start out with one plot line, then are slapped with a second plot line. We spend the majority of the book working on solving plot line #2, then go back and finish plot line #1 in a hurry. To me it almost felt like Shawn Wilson couldn’t figure out what he wanted to actually do with this book, so instead of separating the two plot lines into separate books, which I’d have preferred, he just did them both and hoped for the best. For me, the characters are […]

The Sacrifice of Lester Yates ..

Posted 06/23/2022 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

I know my last couple of reviews have been romance novels, but this time, I’m pulling out a mystery/thriller for you. I’ve been a fan of mysteries and thrillers for years and if you look back at my review history, you’ll see that I’ve reviewed my fair share of them. So today I’m bringing you a new one – The Sacrifice of Lester Yates by Robin Yocum. This one has been in my NetGalley queue for far too long. I’m honestly disgusted with myself for not having read this book sooner. Characters Allow me to preface this characters section by saying there are a LOT of characters at play here. I’m only going to touch on a couple of them for the sake of my dear readers not having to spend hours reading a review. Hutchinson Van Buren Our illustrious main character, from whose point of view the story is […]