•The beautiful one
•The golden couple
•The volatile one
•The new parents
•The quiet one
•The city boy
•The outsider
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is a proper whodunnit. Friends from university and a couple significant others on their annual holiday. There is also the staff at the remote Scottish highlands getaway and a couple from Iceland. Which one of them is a murderer? It’s a slow burn … Foley navigates each of the character’s pasts and their relationships with one another. Who is presenting themselves as someone other than who they are? Or better yet, who isn’t? The tension is dialed up by alternating chapters between the days leading up to the murder and the day of. Solid A.
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Sometimes staying alive is the only form of resistance you have.
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris is the companion book to The Tatooist of Auschwitz (read January 2021). The heartbreaking story of a woman freed from Auschwitz-Birkenau only to end up in a Siberian gulag, accused of being a Nazi sympathizer for impossible choices. Beautiful Cilka Klein is fated to be in situations that draw unwanted attention … some to her benefit and others most definitely not. Morris deftly weaves Cilka’s past - as a girl, in the concentration camp - with current circumstances to create a layered, complex character. I especially loved the family-of-choice amongst the women prisoners. Solid A.
TBR List
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- A Beastly Kind of Earl by Mia Vincy
- The Good House by Ann Leary
- The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle
- This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
- Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
