December 2022 Releases

(NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Goodreads links to my star-ratings and thoughts.)

Cassie Alexander: Shapeshifted: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads

V. C. Andrews: Out of the Rain: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback & Mass Market Paperback: Goodreads

Kelley Armstrong: The Deepest of Secrets: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Janet Edwards: Sol 2781: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Mina Hardy: We Knew All Along: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Paula Hawkins: A Slow Fire Burning: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Tiffany Reisz: A Wolfe in Winter: Kindle Edition

Beth Revis: Museum of Magic: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Andrew Shaffer: Feel the Bern: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Lisa Unger: The Dark Door: Kindle Edition

Rachel Vincent: Living Dead Girl: Kindle Edition & Paperback

June 2022 Releases

Better late than never, right? So here are some books you may have missed, released June 2022. All are US publication dates, and all buy links are to Amazon US. (NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Goodreads links lead to my star-ratings (out of five) and any thoughts.

Keri Arthur: Sorrow’s Song: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Claire Askew: Cover Your Tracks: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads

Amy Ewing: Lucien’s Story: Kindle Edition

Mina Hardy: After All I’ve Done: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads

Zakiya Dalila Harris: The Other Black Girl: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

Kim Harrison: Trouble with the Cursed: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Paula Hawkins: A Slow Fire Burning: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Samantha Hayes: The Ex-Husband: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Carrie Jones: The Fear That Returns: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Tara Moss: The Ghosts of Paris: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Tom Perrotta: Tracy Flick Can’t Win: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Jodi Picoult: Wish You Were Here: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Riley Sager: The House Across the Lake: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Erica Spindler: Last Known Victim: Kindle Edition: Goodreads

Francesca Zappia: Katzenjammer: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

August 2021 Releases

Better late than never, right? So here are some books you may have missed, released August 2021. All are US publication dates, and all buy links are to Kindle Editions. (NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Goodreads links lead to my star-ratings (out of five) and any thoughts.

AUGUST 2021 RELEASES

Megan Abbott: The Turnout: Buy: Goodreads
Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell: Suns Will Rise: Buy
Paula Hawkins: A Slow Fire Burning: Buy: Goodreads
Carrie Jones: Saint: Buy
Kate McLaughlin (previously published as Kady Cross): The Girl with the Windup Heart: Buy
J. P. Pomare: The Last Guests: Buy: Goodreads
Sara Raasch & Kristen Simmons: Rise Up from the Embers: Buy
Madeleine Roux: Reclaimed: Buy
Lilja Sigurðardóttir (translated by Quentin Bates): Cold as Hell: Buy

[REVIEW] The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train
Random House Doubleday (AU: 2nd January 2015; CA: 6th January 2015; UK: 15th January 2015); Penguin Riverhead (US: 13th January 2015)
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I decided that 2015 would be the year that I read what I want when I want, and not just read particular books because I feel like I “should”. It’s early in the year, and I’ve already strayed from my intention with various results. (Sorry, but I wasn’t interested enough to finish Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.) But I’m so glad I decided to try Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.

The comparisons to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl are inevitable: “Girl” in the title, unreliable narrator, crime from the POV of someone who’s NOT a professional investigator, “unlikeable” female lead character… But I warmed to The Girl on the Train much more. Often times I struggled with Rachel Watson due to her alcoholism, but she really does try to do the right thing, though often for the wrong reasons.

Paula Hawkins has crafted an intoxicating story with flawed-yet-familiar characters and page-turning twists. The Girl on the Train is an international best-seller for a reason: it’s bloody good, and should appeal to fans of Brit crime. An intriguing read that’s left me impatient for news about the author’s next novel.