Review Brianna Labuskes delivers a sophisticated, suspenseful crime thriller with Clean Slate. I haven't read any of Brianna's work before, but she is now an author that I have faith in when it comes to great storytelling. With multiple POVs and flashbacks, readers are led through FMC Olive's investigation into how the victims and her… Continue reading Clean Slate by Brianna Labuskes
Hank Phillipi Ryan delivers a thought-provoking, eerie, psychological thriller with All This Could Be Yours. Right from the prologue, we know that Tessa Calloway is driven, intelligent, and a caring person for her family and community. Years later, when she instantly becomes a bestselling author, we learn that there’s a darker side to her past. She definitely has skeletons in her closet, and any possibility of them becoming public could definitely destroy her new life just as it began.
Kelsey Cox had a great idea for this potential spin on a murder mystery. And I will admit that the story kept me glued to the very end. However, some of the story fell flat for me. The book is marketed as a high-stakes, locked-room whodunnit. But that’s arguably misleading. We don’t learn who the victim is until the very end, and there is no on-page investigation. And while much of storyline is meant to confuse and misdirect readers from predicting the end, a lot of it seemed like filler. While I liked the short chapters, there were unnecessary breaks within that chapter that disrupted the flow of the story.
