[REVIEW] The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a holy guacamole book!
I have to confess I did not predict the end, which was something that does not happen often due to the huge amount of thriller I have read in the past -- but hey, I didn't see this coming and I loved it!

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[REVIEW] The Great Alone

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy Guacamole...
What this book does so well is to describe the decay of Leni's father mental health with the reduction of sun light... It also shows how difficult it is to live in extreme weather, but humans are amazing creatures and adapt...
Respect for Alaska, honestly. By reading this book I felt like a city girl (which I am), screaming at the smallest spider (which I also do) and completely unable to adapt and survive in temperatures below -10C (also true).
I am curious now, is it possible for anyone in Alaska to be vegetarian?


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[REVIEW] Faithful Place

Faithful Place by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What I think Tana French does really well in this Dublin Murder Squad series is the fact that we´ve met all protagonists in the previous books, so it´s like we already have a relationship with them and in each book we get to know them better...
In this particular book, I cared for Rosie and Francis, I cared for the whole Mackie family who has been trapped in the consequences of alcoholism for their entire lives...
I won´t give away anything from the plot, just say that it is a nice entertaining story to read on raining sunday afternoons or at the beach.


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[REVIEW] The Likeness

The Likeness by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Nice mystery/thriller, it kept me engaged until the end... I find it hard to believe how someone can be someone else entirely in a few days, but for the purpose of the murder story behind it, I pretend I believed it...

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[REVIEW] In the woods

In the Woods by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was my first Tana French, and it had been a long time since my last mystery/thriller... So right before the book ended, I was thinking "wait a second, there are not enough pages to figure out everything that happened in this book..." and apparently that's the way Tana French's books are --> the characters are flawed, they make mistakes, not all their issues are solved and they definitely do not live happily ever after.
This is kind of refreshing for me, much more realistic!
So in this one, Rob is a troubled guy, something terrible happened when he was young and it basically ruins him. He might be a good cop, but at some point he let's his fears and emotions gets in the way.
I am giving 4 starts to this book, because it managed to make me angry and frustrated with some characters while keeping me engaged in the story.
I am definitely going to read the rest of the Murder Squad novels!

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[REVIEW] "After the crash"

After the Crash by Michel Bussi
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

What a disaster... I should have DNF-ed this book around page 100 or 150, when the writing became annoying... not sure if the problem was the author or the translator, but annoying nevertheless...
I don’t like when narrators give clues, click bite style, and then say “but I am greeting ahead of myself” or “but you will see what I mean”... the story was not motivating me at all, I had no sympathy by any of the characters, so those clues felt like a desperate way to keep me reading.
I also did not like as women were portrayed in general: good characters are beautiful and a body like a model (or big boobs!), bad characters a ugly and the body is weirdly developed, bitchy characters don’t want kids... [rolling my eyes]
Than, so many shots fired but no ones calls the police! A very noisy-gossipy neighbour knows all the cars parked in his block but did not hear the gunshot... oh, for Christ sake... what a waste of time...

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[REVIEW] The good girl

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I have to confess: I was missing a thriller in my “book roadmap” for 2019 and this was exactly what I needed! In 2 months I will probably won’t remember the details, but it was so gripping... this book made me suffer from Stockholm syndrome, for God’s sake!!
I had to give it 4 stars!!

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