I am a bit upset with the voting this week, there was one book I really wanted to keep but you guys voted it out ? But a promise is a promise so I will be taking it off my reading list…it may go back on if I ever clear my list to a respectable number. At the moment, my TBR list is currently at 2,222, and I think the number is just going up and up and up!! Doh!
There is a new option this week on voting…..GET RID OF THEM ALL lol. Just in case the ruthless ones of you out there, not naming names…. (Kelly and Eva) felt that way inclined!
There is a clear clear winner this week, with some bringing up the rear. I am going to include an option to just get rid of the lot! As I know some of you struggled with the list last week and I never had the option lol.
Wow!
So which three are staying? So in case it was not clear, who was staying (!!) here you go!
Well, what do we have here for this week?
Hold Tight by Harlan CobenGoodreads
Also by this author: Dont Let Go
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son - 'Just stay quiet and all safe.'
Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range; but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question they must answer is this: when it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much?
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan
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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs—a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts— five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
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Three sisters, one birthday, one little problem ...
It happens sometimes that you accidentally star in a little public performance, your very own comedy, tragedy or melodrama.
The three Kettle sisters have been accidentally starring in public performances all their lives, affecting their audiences in more ways than they'll ever know. This time, however, they give a particularly spectacular show when a raucous, champagne-soaked birthday dinner ends in a violent argument and an emergency dash to the hospital.
So who started it this time? Was it Cat: full of angry, hurt passion dating back to the 'Night of the Spaghetti'? Was it Lynn: serenely successful, at least on the outside? Or was it Gemma: quirky, dreamy and unable to keep a secret, except for the most important one of all?
Whoever the culprit, their lives will have all changed dramatically before the next inevitable clash of shared genes and shared childhoods.
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
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#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful thriller from one of the finest suspense writers working today.
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
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For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.
I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.The lucky one. As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row. Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue. What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared, fragile girl she was have built a fortress of secrets. As the clock ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity, but even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old ghosts and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really happened that night. Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.
I really can not wait to see what way the voting is going to go this week – exciting!
Look forward to hearing your thoughts and thank you as always for voting!!!
Until next time xxx
likeherdingcatsblog says
I’ve voted for Coben but Sharp Objects is very good too
Zoé says
You can vote for as many as you want lol ?
likeherdingcatsblog says
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Kelly says
Great that you’re not naming names ? It’s been ages since I last told you to chuck the lot! (Your choices must have improved ??)
Zoé says
Ha ha I have also culled a lot before they got listed. Anything rated less than 3.8 didn’t get added I was ruthless lol. ?? these are books I added back in 2014 onwards still loads to cull !!
nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog says
Highly recommend Black Eyed Susans I loved it when I read it years ago and think I gave 5 stars on Goodreads!
Zoé says
I have had it for ages and not got round to reading it ??♀️ oh I’m glad you like it!
calturner says
I haven’t read any of them, but I love Harlan Coben so have voted for him to stay. ?
Zoé says
I do enjoy his books! Thanks for voting lovely x
Hayley at RatherTooFondofBooks says
Ooh which book do you wish you’d got to keep last week? I’m intrigued.
Zoé says
I really wanted to keep Love,Rosie as I loved the film ?
Hayley at RatherTooFondofBooks says
I voted for you to keep that one, so I reckon you should cheat and add it back on your TBR! 😉 x
Zoé says
Oooh sneaky! I LOVE IT!! lol xx
nsfordwriter says
I haven’t voted, sorry – not having read any of these, I feel I’m not qualified enough to say which ones to keep 😀
Zoé says
Ha ha no worries! You can vote to throw them all ?