What I’ve Been Reading: October 2024

Hello!

How was your Monday? I hope your week is off to a great start.

Well, like I usually say at the end of the month…how is it already time to share what I read…but here we are!

I read two books this month, and they were both mystery/thriller books, which I really enjoyed for the month of October. #spookyseason

{As always, book summaries are from Goodreads…}

The Girls in the Garden:

Summary:

You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses.

You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly.

You think your children are safe.

But are they really?

Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Quick Thoughts:

I’ve read a few Lisa Jewell books, and I always enjoy them. London with a garden behind the house was the perfect setting for a bit of mystery. As I read this book, I could really visualize the setting. I like the characters and the sense of mystery in the plot. The ending was just as you would expect a mystery to end…with the plot was wrapped up but there was still a bit of creepiness.

Rating:

I rate this one 3.5 stars.

She’s Not Sorry:

Summary:

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller.

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. 

But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin  pushed  and if so, by whom and why? 

Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.

Quick Thoughts:

Like with Jewell, I’ve read quite a few books by Mary Kubica too. This book caught my attention from the first page. I’d almost forgotten how it started until part two of the book started and it was full circle. This book definitely kept my interest and kept me on my toes with a few twists and turns. I really enjoyed it.

Rating:

Both Jewell and Kubica are your “go to” girls for mysteries and thrillers.

Unfortunately, I’m thinking two books a month is my average, but who knows…hopefully I will have a bit more time to read now.

What have you been reading lately?