Hot off the Shelves Reviewed by Luanne Oliver
If you love suspense novels, you’re going to want to pick Amber Cowie’s new book – The Off Season . The set up for this tale was perfect! Jane has just married a man she’s known for only six months, he’s thirteen years older, has a teenage daughter and has been married already. Jane doesn’t want children and is rebounding from something that went very bad in her work. A recipe for disaster? Maybe. How about adding in being caretakers for a
I’ve seen so many positive reviews of Freida McFadden’s suspense novels, so I thought it was about time I read one. Her latest is The Housemaid is Watching . McFadden starts off with a prologue guaranteed to hook the reader. We now know what awaits us in further along in the book. What we need now is the who and why. Millie, her husband Enzo and their two children have just moved into a house on a quiet cul-de-sac. The neighbors are a bit ‘off’, but that can’t take
remote lodge in the winter? Oh definitely yes. The setting is wonderfully described. The lodge is large and luxurious. The forest surrounding the lodge beautiful – but also dangerous. And this crossed my thoughts...Redrum... Cowie’s character building is perfect. The dynamics between Jane and Dom are still in the honeymoon stage. But relations between Jane and Dom’s daughter Sienna, are fractious. The past is also a character in the plot. But is anyone telling the truth at all? Oh my gosh – with every chapter Cowie builds and builds the tension in the lodge. There was no way I was going to stop reading! The plotting is great – I had no idea how things were to going to play out. Cowie kept me guessing right through to the last pages.
Read more from Luanne at luanne-abookwormsworld.blogspot.co m away from their happiness of owning a house at last. Or can it? McFadden is a master of misdirection. She had me looking at one set of events, while I should have been looking at another. Bravo! I love being unable to predict what is going to happen next in a plot. Almost every chapter ends with foreshadowing, which means I just had to read just another chapter and another. My perception about Millie changed quite a few times as the book continued. It was the same for many other characters as well. McFadden gives us some crazy twists that were unexpected – but very welcomed! While this was my first McFadden tale, it won’t be my last!
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