Showing posts with label psychological. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychological. Show all posts

17 January 2016

Review #319: Taking on Water by David Rawding

By    18:37 // No comments


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.”

----Renee Fredrickson


David Rawding, an American author, pens his new psychological thriller called Taking on Water that portrays the story of a happily married couple- a social worker and a local cop, set in a small American fishing town, who tries hard to protect the young teens from abuse and drug addiction and use, all the while trying hard to fight with their own past issues as well as present. In the process, they get to meet a lobsterman and his wife and teenage son, who then become very close friends. This is a story about friendship, betrayal, drug trafficking and child abuse.


16 August 2015

Review #301: The Drowning (Fjällbacka #6) by Camilla Läckberg

By    18:53 // No comments


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.” 


----Mark Vonnegut, an American pediatrician and memoirist



Camilla Läckberg, an international bestselling Swedish author, has penned yet another bone-chilling thriller, The Drowning in the Fjällbacka/ Patrik Hedström series, and this book is the sixth in the series. This story revolves around a debut author when he publishes his book, followed by threatening letters and that also jeopardized the lives of people in his whole social circle around him. Meanwhile another bestseller author is pinning hard for the unspoken past of this debut author that finally leads her to an adventurous as well as captivating journey through some cities of Sweden.


14 August 2015

Review #299: The Wrong Man by Kate White

By    15:42 // 1 comment


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”

---- Aaron B. Powell, an American author



Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author, pens her latest suspense novel, The Wrong Man, which is a heart-stopping thriller about an interior decorator who on a business cum pleasure trip to Florida gets conned by a man about his identity, and little did she knew that a simple stolen identity case would land her up in a dangerous game of illegal medicine trading scam which will put her on the hit list.



12 August 2015

Review #298: Find Virgil by Frank Freudberg

By    18:14 // 2 comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."

----David Byrne, a Scottish-born American musician


Frank Freudberg, an American author, has penned a compelling and thoroughly gripping thriller, Find Virgil, which is about a serial killer who goes on a killing spree after his detection of lung cancer due to a second hand smoke, finally resulting in challenging him to shut down all the major cigarrate-making companies, and he doesn't care for if he need to kill in this process.




8 August 2015

Review #293: Mortom by Erik Therme

By    20:55 // 1 comment


My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

----Anonymous



Erik Therme, an American author, has penned his debut novel, Mortom, which accounts the story of a brother and a sister who are left a huge estate by one of theirs distant cousin who committed suicide in a small town, upon reaching they discover a letter with a key that leads to a "treasure" hidden somewhere in that strange town.





25 July 2015

Review #284: Baby Please Don't Go by Frank Freudberg

By    15:11 // No comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”

----Stieg Larsson



Frank Freudberg, an American novelist, journalist and ghostwriter, pens his latest psychological thriller, Baby Please Don't Go , that accounts a heart-stopping and thoroughly intensifying tale about a recovering alcoholic who only desired for one thing in his life- a family, which he gets through his job, only to find out that he has to pay a hefty price to be happy again with a family.



23 July 2015

Review #281: Clara's Song (Haunted Minds, #2) by John Hennessy

By    16:10 // No comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 


----Friedrich Nietzsche


John Hennessy (my friend), an English writer, pens a bone-chilling as well as inspiring and quite thrilling tale about marriage, Clara's Song that is the second book in the Haunted Minds series. Now as the title of the series says, Haunted Minds, the book in the series actually keeps haunting our minds not only while reading but also long after we have finished reading the book.



22 July 2015

Review #280: Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway

By    15:10 // No comments


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.” 


----Amit Kalantri, an Indian author


Jessica Treadway, an American author, pens a compelling as well as heart-wrenching tale of a mother and a daughter in her new psychological thriller, Lacy Eye that accounts the story of a family where the husband and the wife were brutally beaten on their bed, due to which the husband died whereas the wife suffered memory loss and physical injuries unfortunately three years later, the man who did this to them is seeking an appeal to the court and that wife must put all her energy to try to remember that horrific life. And surprisingly this man was the wife's daughter's boyfriend.

21 July 2015

Review #279: Housebroken by The Behrg

By    14:55 // No comments



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Better be the devil you know than the devil you don't.” 


----Jack Heath, an Award-winning Australian author


The Behrg, an American author, pens his debut thriller, Housebroken that accounts the story of a family who are taken hostage by two psycho kidnappers who only wanted one thing from that family- observe the normal daily routine of that family for a week. Sounds weird as well as thoroughly creepy!

Warning: This book is not for those who have a faint/weak heart that can't handle too much creepy and dark violence and horror! Look Away...



17 July 2015

Review #274: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

By    15:56 // No comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” 


----John Holmes



Mary Kubica, the national best-selling American author, pens her new psychological thriller, Pretty Baby, that unfolds a gripping and mystifying story about a woman who helps a homeless teenager and baby by providing them shelter and food in her own home, thus resulting in a unbreakable marital distance between herself and her husband, but when this teenager's story started surfacing up, things take a wrong turn thus making the woman question her decision about providing shelter to that teenager on the first place. After all it has been rightly said, "Do not judge a book by it's covers!"


14 June 2015

Review #242: Someone Out There by Catherine Hunt

By    18:52 // 2 comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” 



----Elie Wiesel, a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent



Catherine Hunt, an English journalist/writer, pens her debt psychological thriller, Someone Out There that is centered around a divorce lawyer whose life goes haywire or rather say becomes deadly when she takes up a particular case of a woman trying to get a divorce from her claimed to be abusive husband.

6 June 2015

Review #238: A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson

By    20:50 // 4 comments



My rating: 5 of 5 stars



"Every father should understand that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. "


----Unknown



Ben McPherson, a television producer, director, and writer, pens his debut psychological thriller, A Line of Blood that traces the life of Mercer family after the father and the son discover the dead body of their neighbor which thoroughly changes their lives or rather say fills up their minds with lots of questions and doubt about one another.


12 April 2015

Review #187: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

By    20:06 // 4 comments



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

----Gillian Flynn


Gillian Flynn, the American best-selling author who rose to fame with her debut book, Sharp Objects and with her latest psycho thriller centered around a broken marriage, Gone Girl, has woven a bone-chilling and mind-numbing psychological thriller, Dark Places which is her second book after Sharp Objects. Honestly, I never heard of this author before Gone Girl's release. And after the movie installment of her third book, Gone Girl, it seems that the sales of her first and second books have sky-rocketed.

17 November 2014

Review #79: Roadrage by M.J. Johnson

By    12:35 // 2 comments


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Nenia Campbell, an American author, has been quoted while saying:

“It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.”

M.J. Johnson, an English author, has spun a spectacular psychological thriller in his new book, Roadrage . And honestly, if you ask me how the book was, I'd rather say that I never ever read anything so dark, vulnerable and so sick!! M.J. Johnson has not only written it from the view point of creating a sick trauma and fear in the minds of his readers but he has delivered the whole book with a hell lot of compassion, thus it made me completely hooked to the story till the very end, and after reading this book, I'm now an official fan of Martin and will be looking forward in reading his next book.

Synopsis:
Gil Harper is traveling home in severe weather conditions when he encounters another car on a deserted motorway. The other driver provokes him into a dangerous race at high speed. Although deeply shaken by the experience, Gil eventually gets away and completes his journey safely. A short time afterwards there begins a series of apparently unrelated events. What seems at first to be a vindictive game escalates into a terrifying ordeal with lethal consequences, not only for Gil, but for all those he loves and cares about. Trouble isn't always personal.

12 November 2014

Review #71: The Black Hour by Lori Reader-Day

By    17:15 // No comments



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, who was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, has quoted "violence" as:

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”

Lori Rader-Day, an American author, has spun a spectacular tale about violence in her debut book, The Black Hour. The author has extended the horizon to let us see through the very lives behind the campus corridors and classrooms and playground, where every day without our any knowledge, a student-teacher relationship blossoms which might sound very significant from their perspective but we never get to know the end of those relationships. And the author has not only focused on those forbidden closed-door relationships, but has also made us enlighten with the reasons behind the petty violence occurring every single day!


Synopsis:
A sociology professor named, Amelia Emmet, who gets shot, be one of her fellow student and after shooting her, that boy shot himself to death. Now a year has passed, Amelia Emmet is back into her teaching profession, but it seems adjusting with her old curriculum sounds quite challenging. It's getting hard for her to handle those weird stares in the hallway, sinister looks in the staffroom, etc. Then comes, Nath Barber, who is her new Teaching Assistant and wants to do his dissertation on the attack on Amelia. Two human beings, searching for the same answers, and hence they find themselves on the crossroads where they need to learn to trust and believe each other to move on the same path, which is not only excruciating, but also dark, challenging and infernal. Will their journey be fruitful and be able to find all the hidden pieces to the puzzle?
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