Where The Reader Grows
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Where the Reader Grows is a New York City and book-centric blog sprinkled with life. You will find posts about recipes, my musings, a collective jumble of whatever is on my mind at the time along with discussions on ALL THINGS BOOKS. Mostly these will include crime/psychological thrillers and horror novels, but will include different genres peppered in to keep things spicy.
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
Point Last Seen by Christina Dodd
From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes a brand new, standalone suspense about a reclusive artist who retrieves a seemingly dead woman from the Pacific Ocean...only to have her come back to life with no memory of what happened to her. With a strong female protagonist, a chilling villain, and twisty secrets that will keep you turning the pages. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Karin Slaughter and Sandra Brown, POINT LAST SEEN, will have readers keeping the lights on all night.
LIFE LAST SEEN
When you’ve already died, there should b ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
From the Deep
by Kateri Stanley
Thank you Rachel's Random Resources for this gifted copy for review.
Publisher: Burton Mayers Books
Publish Date: May 6, 2022
Kindle Edition
294 Pages
Standalone
Genre: Fantasy
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Julian Finch, widower and fisherman, awakes to learn that the bodies of two colleagues have washed up on the beach of Drake Cove. The close-knit community is under fierce public scrutiny due to a long-standing tradition called "The Culling", the annual slaughter of pilot whales for consumption. An act which divides the nation.
The suspects ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
Good Husbands
by Cate Ray
Huge thank you to Park Row for this gifted book.
Publisher: Park Row
Publish Date: June 7, 2022
Hardcover
384 Pages
Standalone
Genre: Thriller
Three wives, one letter, and an explosive secret that will change everything.
He said, she said. Who do you believe?
Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they’ve each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
Counterfeit
by Kristin Chen
Narrated by Catherine Ho
Thanks so much to William Morrow, HarperAudio and Libro.fm for this #giftedbook.
Publisher: HarperAudio
Publish Date: June 7, 2022
Audiobook
7 hrs 20 min
Standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Money can't buy happiness... but it can buy a decent fake.
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she's built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degr ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by Miranda Raison & Pandora Sykes
Thanks to Random House Audio for this delightful gifted audiobook.
Publisher: Random House Audio
Publish Date: April 5, 2022
Audiobook
11 hrs, 55 min
Standalone
Genres: Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the l ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
1y ago
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by Kiersten White
Thanks so much to Del Rey Books for these gifted copies.
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Publish Date: May 24, 2022
Hardcover
256 Pages
Standalone
Genre: Horror
The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that.
It's the reason she's alive, and her family isn't.
But as the people aroun ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
2y ago
Our Crooked Hearts
by Melissa Albert
A huge thanks to Flatiron Books for this gifted book.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publish Date: June 28, 2022
Hardcover
352 Pages
Standalone
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
THE SUBURBS, RIGHT NOW . . .
Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mothe ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
2y ago
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
by Darcy Coates
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Publish Date: October 7, 2021 (first pub 9/7/21)
Paperback
340 Pages
Standalone
Genres: Horror, Paranormal
Leigh Harker's quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep.
Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home, Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
2y ago
Dark Lines
by Jack Harding
Thanks so much to DarkLit Press for this gifted copy.
Publisher: DarkLit Press
Publish Date: May 2, 2022
Paperback
Standalone
Genres: Horror, Short Stories
From the author of Ripper Country comes sixteen tales of psychological horror, each more frightening than the last. Venture into a dark and brooding world of twists and turns where things are rarely as they seem, and terror reigns supreme…
A mother is haunted by an apocalyptic vision…a husband banished to the couch is awoken by a bump in the night…a vampire catches up with an old friend…a brooding man-child suff ..read more
Where The Reader Grows
2y ago
Just Like Mother
by Anne Heltzel
Huge thanks to Tor Nightfire for these gifted copies.
Publisher: Nightfire
Publish Date: May 17, 2022
Hardcover
320 Pages
Standalone
Genre: Horror
A girl would be such a blessing...
The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything—and everyone—at a safe distance.
When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she’s ever had. Soon she’s spending more time at Andrea’s remote Catskills ..read more