Book Reviews & Recommendations
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Vigdis Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead is a deeply psychological and unsettling novel that examines the tangled emotional terrain between mothers and daughters. Set in Oslo, it follows Johanna, a sixty-year-old artist who returns home after decades abroad to prepare […]
Lucinda Berry, bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Secrets of Us, returns with another dark psychological thriller, Under Her Care. Set in a small Alabama town simmering with secrets and suspicion, this story digs deep into the disturbing intersection of […]
Lucinda Berry, a former clinical psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma, brings her expertise vividly to life in The Secrets of Us. This gripping psychological thriller dives deep into the fragile bond between two foster sisters whose shared past refuses to […]
Lisa Genova, the acclaimed neuroscientist and author of Still Alice, returns with another emotionally rich and scientifically grounded novel, More or Less Maddy. This time, she turns her compassionate lens toward bipolar disorder, crafting a story that is as illuminating as it […]
Invisible by Eloy Moreno is one of those rare books that leaves an imprint long after you’ve turned the last page. Told through the eyes of a young boy, it’s a powerful and emotionally charged story about bullying, loneliness, and the silent […]
Few writers capture the fragile interplay between memory, melancholy, and meaning as masterfully as Georgi Gospodinov. In Death and the Gardener, translated with remarkable sensitivity by Angela Rodel, the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter turns inward, tracing the final month […]
In Jävla karlar (Damn Men), Andrev Walden delivers a brilliant and darkly funny debut that transforms chaos and trauma into sharp, lyrical storytelling. The novel, which won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize, recounts the author’s unusual childhood seven different fathers in seven years […]
The Millennium series once defined a generation of readers. Stieg Larsson’s original trilogy was bold, politically charged, and unforgettably raw, anchored by the enigmatic Lisbeth Salander and the moral journalist Mikael Blomkvist. But with Lokattens Klor (The Lynx’s Claws), the eighth installment […]
Ruth Ware, the queen of modern psychological thrillers, steps into new territory with Zero Days, a pulse-racing blend of action, technology, and suspense. Known for atmospheric mysteries like The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ware takes a […]
Tana French has long been celebrated for her masterful blend of atmosphere, psychology, and moral complexity, and The Hunter is no exception. Returning readers to the small, vividly drawn Irish village of Ardnakelty, French crafts a story that simmers with slow-burning tension, […]