The Sudden Appearance of Hope

The Sudden Appearance of Hope
author: Claire North
published: May 17th 2016
pages: 468
my rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Listen.
All the world forgets me. First my face, then my voice, then the consequences of my deeds.
So listen. Remember me.
My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. We've met before - a thousand times. But I am the girl the world forgets.
It started when I was sixteen years old. A slow declining, an isolation, one piece at a time.
A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A teacher who forgets to chase my missing homework. A friend who looks straight through me and sees a stranger.
No matter what I do, the words I say, the people I hurt, the crimes I commit - you will never remember who I am.
That makes my life tricky. But it also makes me dangerous . . .

The Merciless

The Merciless

author: Danielle Vega

published: June 9th 2015

pages: 279

my rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned

Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream.

Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. They said they wanted to save Brooklyn. They wanted to help her. Sofia didn’t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed.

Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn—but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. But there is no way out. Sofia can’t go against the other girls . . . unless she wants to be next. . . .

This was another book I read for the BookTube-A-Thon. I didn't use it for any particular challenge but I did find out about it through BookTube. And although I heard many great things about it, I had little to no idea what it is about before reading it and I think that's the best way to get into this book.

The Woman in Cabin 10

The Woman in Cabin 10
author: Ruth Ware
published: June 30th 2016
pages: 352
my rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Thanks netgalley for giving me this book in exchange for an honest review!

This was meant to be the perfect trip.
The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship.
A chance for travel journalist Lo Blackwood to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse, and to work out what she wants from her relationship.
Except things don’t go as planned.
Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next door cabin. But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.
Exhausted, emotional and increasingly desperate, Lo has to face the fact that her sleep problems might be driving her mad or she is trapped on a boat with a murderer – and she is the sole witness..

I liked this book from the very beginning I started reading it. Before reading it, I had no idea what it was about but I had heard some good things about the author so I really wanted to read it.

Mr Mercedes

Mr Mercedes
author: Stephen King
published: June 3rd 2014
pages: 436
my rating: 5 out of 5 stars



In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the "perk" and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.

Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again.

Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

This is definitely my favourite Stephen King book yet (I only read three but still). Even though it took me forever to finish, it was really gripping and I was definitely invested in the story.

Night Film

Night Film
author: Marisha Pessl
published: August 20th 2013
pages: 602
my rating: 5 out of 5 stars














Everybody has a Cordova story. Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn't been seen in public since 1977. To his fans he is an enigma. To journalist Scott McGrath he is the enemy. To Ashley he was a father.

On a damp October night the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Her suicide appears to be the latest tragedy to hit a severely cursed dynasty.

For McGrath, another death connected to the legendary director seems more than a coincidence. Driven by revenge, curiosity and a need for the truth, he finds himself pulled into a hypnotic, disorientating world, where almost everyone seems afraid.

The last time McGrath got close to exposing Cordova, he lost his marriage and his career. This time he could lose his grip on reality.

ONCE WE FACE OUR DEEPEST FEARS, WHAT LIES ON THE OTHER SIDE?


This may be one of my favorite books I've read this year. As a regular YA reader starting this book was a bit haunting since it has 600 pages and I wasn't used to the narrative in the beginning. I did end up reading this for a whole week which is way to long in my opinion but it was worth it for sure.

Dark Places

Dark Places
author: Gillian Flynn
published: May 5th 2009
pages: 349
my rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars














Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice" of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club—for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.

Wow, this book was amazing. I've never read a book by Gillian Flynn before but everyone seems to be obsessed with them so I had pretty high expectations. Let me just say those expectations were definitely met.

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train
author: Paula Hawkins
published by: Riverhead Books
released: January 13th 2015
pages: 325
my rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars



I think it is best to go into this book without knowing anything about it. So even if I personally think this review doesn't contain spoilers you might still want to stop reading here and come back after you read it. I highly recommend this book!






A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people’s lives.

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”

One thing you can learn from this book? Nothing is as it seems. Nobody in this book is perfect and I think thats one reason why I like this book so much. I know I didn't give it five stars but I have a feeling "The Girl on the Train" will stick to my mind for a while.

Rachel feels like she knows the two people living in the house she waches from the train but when she actually learns more about them she has to realize that the perfect couple she imagined doesn't actually exist. I found it fascinating to see how the seemingly happy and perfect wife "Jess" slowly transformed into Megan, a woman with lots of problems, so many, not even her husband knew about them all. Her story made me want to cry in more than one occasion, that's how sad it is.

"This isn't a good idea. I know it's not a good idea. But what harm can it do?"

When I first started reading, I thought Rachel herself was happy and content with her life but it turns out fairly quick that this isn't the case either. Personally, I couldn't help but feel with her while she struggles to get herself together but I was also glad to see that it wasn't displayed as to easy. She is an alcoholic and also depressed and doesn't get better over night. Also she does make lots of mistakes throughout the book and sometimes I felt like shaking her, yet I continued to like her.

Another thing I liked about this book was how quickly Paula Hawkins managed to make me hate Tom and Anna, Rachel's ex-husband and his new wife. I especially loathed Anna and the chapters written from her perspective made me hate her even more. Really I don't think I despised someone that much for a while but Anna managed it without problem.

Something every thriller should do is keep you guessing. At least for me this was no problem. Maybe I'm just bad in catching plot twists, but I had no idea where the story was going until the very end and even though it seems logical now and I think I should have known earlier, I didn't.

I think you should be in a good mood while reading this, because it is a little depressing at times but other than that I highly recommend this book!