Thriller

Guest Review: Cuckoo, Julia Crouch

October 4, 2012 Maeva Guest Review 3 Comments Post em Português

This is not a review by Guta nor Maeva.
Guest Review is written by our contributor, Julia Pedroso,
and she will tell you her opinion about a book she read.

A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all – the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose’s cosy world starts to fall apart at the seams – her baby falls dangerously ill, her husband is distracted – is Polly behind it all? It appears that once you invite Polly into your home, it’s very difficult to get her out again…

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Fiction, Headline, Julia Crouch, Rated 5 books, Thriller 3 Comments

Review: Insurgent, Veronica Roth

May 9, 2012 Maeva Reviews 8 Comments Post em Português

Attention! If you haven’t read Divergent yet and don’t want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

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Divergent series, Dystopian Future, HarperCollins, Rated 4 and a half book, Thriller, Young Adult 8 Comments

Review: Divergent, Veronica Roth

June 9, 2011 Maeva Reviews 22 Comments Post em Português

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.

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Divergent series, Dystopian Future, HarperCollins, Rated 4 books, Thriller, Veronica Roth, Young Adult 22 Comments

Review: The Father’s Child, Mark Adair

June 2, 2011 Maeva Reviews 2 Comments Post em Português

John Truman, a bright, introverted, college student belongs to the New Dawn… he just doesn’t know it yet. The plans of the 300-year-old, Oxford-based, secret society revolve around him, the final piece in their puzzle. He struggles with almost everything—the girl he loves, the extroverted uber-social best friend, his estranged father, and the recurring visions that compromise his ability to interact with others. All John wants is to get through today; all they want is to rule the world.

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Mark Adair, Rated 3 books, Smashwords, Suspense, Thriller 2 Comments

Review: I Am God, Giorgio Faletti

March 10, 2011 Guta Reviews 3 Comments Post em Português

A serial killer holds New York in his grip. He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that. The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead the police to face up to a dreadful reality: some of New York’s buildings were mined at the time of their construction.

But which ones? And how many? A young female detective hiding her personal demons behind a tough appearance, and a former press photographer with a past he’d rather forget, and for which he still seeks forgiveness, are the only hope of stopping this psychopath.

A man who does not even claim responsibility for his actions.

A man who believes himself to be God.

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Corsair, Giorgio Faletti, Rated 3 books, Suspense, Thriller 3 Comments

Review: Digger’s Bones, Paul Mainsfield Keefe

October 27, 2010 Maeva Reviews 1 Comment Post em Português

Archaeologist Angie Cooper’s colleague and friend, Tarek “Digger” Rashid, is murdered in front of her. But not before giving her cryptic photographic clues to a hidden tomb and the two thousand year old bones within. Angie must battle a ruthless hitman, hired by a U.S. senator with presidential aspirations, and a sociopathic religious zealot while overcoming severe acrophobia. Caught in a web of lies, deceit, and betrayal, she works to unravel the secret of Digger’s bones. Bones that affect the lives of all they touch.

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Independent, Mystery, Paul Mainsfield Keefe, Rated 3 books, Thriller 1 Comment

Review: Pandora’s Succession, Russell Brooks

October 11, 2010 Guta Reviews 9 Comments Post em Português

Where would you hide if you learned the CDC and a major pharmaceutical company unleashed a hyperdeadly microbe on the human race? The action/thriller Pandora’s Succession encompasses a real threat: Biological Terrorism. It can occur at any time and perpetrated by people that we’d never suspect.