Harlan Coben is great!

Other authors to check out if you haven't:

Ruth Ware, Riley Sager, Lucy Foley.

Mystery novelists. 

 

5 hours ago, Melroser said:

Harlan Coben is great!

Other authors to check out if you haven't:

Ruth Ware, Riley Sager, Lucy Foley.

Mystery novelists. 

 

Thank you for the recommendations. 😊I'll check all of them out and pick some titles that sound interesting. Goodreads is my savior.

 

Probably one of the best novels I've read the past 5-10 years. I'm still in the middle... but last night It read from 11 to 3 in the morning without stopping. Breathtaking. 

7 hours ago, Maxim said:

Probably one of the best novels I've read the past 5-10 years. I'm still in the middle... but last night It read from 11 to 3 in the morning without stopping. Breathtaking. 

Update - just finished it. Cried like hell. 10/10. Jump straight into my top 10 books of all time list. 

Currently reading. Horrifying so far. I was not prepared for this to be so disturbing. 

"Emma's the one that got away. The only survivor of a serial killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren't convinced. Nor is her husband. She never even saw her tormentor properly, but now she recognizes him in every man. Questioning her sanity, she gives up her job as a doctor in the local hospital and retreats from the world. It is better to stay at home. Quiet. Anonymous. Safe. No one can hurt her here. And all she did was take a parcel for a neighbor. She has no idea what she's let into her home."

Riley Sager always knows how to write a mystery... even it's horrible and/or over the top... his books are very readable.   I would describe him as a Ron C of mystery thrillers.

1 minute ago, Soaplovers said:

Riley Sager always knows how to write a mystery... even it's horrible and/or over the top... his books are very readable.   I would describe him as a Ron C of mystery thrillers.

I've put one of his books in my amazon basket - Home Before Dark. Have you read it? I'm on such a thriller-books binge right now... Started about 10 days ago... and I've gone through 6 already... reading the 7th right now. 😂

7 minutes ago, Maxim said:

I've put one of his books in my amazon basket - Home Before Dark. Have you read it? I'm on such a thriller-books binge right now... Started about 10 days ago... and I've gone through 6 already... reading the 7th right now. 😂

In the Riley Sager fandom... Home Before Dark and Lock Every Door usually compete for most favorite.

I liked it just fine.

Just now, Soaplovers said:

In the Riley Sager fandom... Home Before Dark and Lock Every Door usually compete for most favorite.

I liked it just fine.

I'm going to order it!  😍 I still have 100 pages left from "The package".  

My husband bought me this as a present in the store yesterday... and so far it's breathtaking. 

Update - I didn't think it was possible to cry every single chapter of a book... but "A little life" proves me wrong. 

Final Update on "A little life" by Hanya Yanagihara.

 

After taking a huge... almost 2 week pause somewhere after page 200+... (Mostly because I needed time to process what I had read, since it was so powerful.) I finished it in 5 days. 5 days I didn't even sleep that much... I was reading the book every free moment I have between work and chores. It's nearly 800 pages, so that was 600 in 5 days in the second phase of my reading. So many of the pages were left smudged from my wet fingers (too much crying and touching my face). I feel uncomfortable letting anyone else read this book, maybe with the exception of my husband... because you could see where I was crying every time it happened.

I am rating it 10/10. And it's been impossible to read anything else since.  I'm currently waiting on a hardcover copy of "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates... It should arrive in couple of days and I hope I'm ready by then for something else.

Edited November 11Nov 11 by Maxim

Started today. 50 pages in. Mind-blown so far. 

The Goldfinch - 250 pages in already... Some of the best stuff I've ever read. I think I'm hitting literature jackpot these days.

Edited November 16Nov 16 by Maxim

Just finished the Goldfinch. Read it in 4-5 days... and it's a huuuuge book. Well... I would rate the first 500 pages a solid 10 out of 10... but then the next 300 were kind of a letdown... so the overall impression is something like - 7/10. It's just very hard to give something a full 10 after reading A little life. 

Still... loved it immensely and would probably re-read it in the future. There is a movie adaptation... starring Nicole Kidman... that I haven't seen. 

Edited November 19Nov 19 by Maxim