Gosh, the premise of this is terrifying! We go on such a journey of obsession and revenge! To find one day that your death has been announced on Facebook but yet you are still breathing and very much alive and then there is the obituary in the paper and then a death certificate and it's just crazy! Well welcome to Laura's life! It's happening to her after a panicked phone call from her daughter, and then her life spirals, spirals, spirals out of ... Read the Post...
#BookReview of The Better Mother by Emily Shiner @authoreshiner @inkubatorbooks #TheBetterMother #ZooloosBookDiary
This was an intense game of cat and mouse! Zoe is adjusting to a new life when the son of her husband turns up one night. She welcomes him into the family, and all seems rosy…until it’s not! As ever with a book by Shiner, you can’t put it down! Well, struggle too! I managed to read it in the car on my travels, intrigued to see where and how dark her mind would go! Cleverly done with alternating chapters, and a lot of misdirection, leading to a ... Read the Post...
#BookReview of Doll House by John Hunt @JohnHuntFiction @brwpublisher #DollHouse #ZooloosBookDiary
I have to take a moment with this book! I was so on edge with this book, I was living the fear that Olivia was. Oh my days amount of times my heart was in my throat. The dark and twisted minds of these characters, left me with a sense of unease long after I had finished the book! From the beginning it held me, it was soft, but you knew something was building, and I was on edge straight away. The vivid descriptions by John meant that reading ... Read the Post...
#BookReview of It’s Your Turn Now by Theo Baxter #TheoBaxter @InkubatorBooks #ItsYourTurnNow #ZooloosBookDiary
This book will definitely need a few trigger warnings, and I am not one who normally does them. It was a brutal book and it was hard to read in some places as Cole depicts an unsettling reality of domestic abuse. It's wrong to say I enjoyed it because of the content but I actually did enjoy the story. It was very dark, gripping, intense and well-written. I can say that this new book did not disappoint me. I was rooting for Daisy for the ... Read the Post...