Book Review: My Wife, the Serial Killer

So what do we have here? Basically, we have a book that follows the life of Fran Donoghue. Ordinary. In love with her husband. Cat lover extraordinare. Assertive. Does not like having her husband bullied in the office. Some sort of a control freak. And well, an unrepentant killer who had made it her mission to make a select group of individuals unalive. That’s Fran Donoghue for you. There’s a lot of gory details here and Fran’s detached nature after killing someone. It’s like stabbing someone to death and cleaning the bloody mess afterwards is just part of an ordinary…

Book Review: Voice Like A Hyacinth

As soon as I finished Voice Like A Hyacinth, I immediately went into a contemplative mode. I truly wondered whether I read this book wrong because it did not seem like neither a horror nor a thriller story. It’s more of a psychological story told by lesbians whose friendship was really weird. In Voice Like A Hyacinth, we follow the story of passionate art students Jo, Saz, Caroline, Finch, and Amrita who are not only lesbians but also whose friendship is as weird as they come. Perhaps, artists and their relationships are really eccentric. As the story constantly tells us,…

Book Review: Crueler Mercies

Wow. That was quite a wild read. For a standalone fantasy, I did not expect that Crueler Mercies would really live up to its title, Crueler Mercies. Get it? After finishing it, I was reeling about the different kind of emotions it provoked. On one hand, I enjoyed it a lot since there was a lot of gore involved, no mercy from our characters, it’s a standalone, and of course, the plight of our heroine, Princess Vittoria. On the downside, however, there were a lot of glaring flaws that hindered me from thoroughly savoring the whole book with gusto. Before…

Book Review: The Year of the Knife

This review has long been overdue, my bad. I requested the Year of the Knife’s ARC from Netgalley around 2017 and then, life happened. I had an oversight, forgot to download it, and yup, affected my Netgalley review rating. As an OCD, it irks me that I have pending ARCs and the math is not mathing. Heh. So here I am, writing this review. Yep, I have to buy the e-book in order to read the book. Fortunately, despite the obscurity of Year of the Knife, I found it entertaining. I was already hooked as early as the first page…