This Week in Books is a feature hosted by Lipsy at Lipsyy Lost and Found that allows bloggers to share:
- What they’ve recently finished reading
- What they are currently reading
- What they are planning to read next
A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.
I finished reading Murder Road by Simone St. James, and then moved on to The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown which I absolutely loved.
April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn.
They’re on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble.
They stop and pick her up. It’s only once she’s in the car that they see the blood.
And then they see the headlights, and at last, the woman speaks, her voice faint. “I’m sorry, he’s coming.”
While April and Eddie are able to escape – this time – their terrifying adventure is only just beginning.
The hitchhiker’s injuries prove fatal, and the couple are trapped in the small town of Coldlake Falls, prime suspects in the eyes of local police.
It turns out that this isn’t the first victim to die on this stretch of road, and it isn’t the first time that survivors have seen something that can’t be explained.
But to get out of town, April and Eddie are going to have to drive down that haunted stretch of road one more time…
Ingeniously plotted and heartstoppingly terrifying, are you ready to uncover the secret of Murder Road?
Because some doors should never be opened.
New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a favourite customer gives her an old book. Full of strange writing and mysterious drawings, at the very front there is a handwritten message:
This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.
Cassie is about to discover that the Book of Doors is a special book – a magic book. A book that bestows extraordinary abilities on whoever possesses it. And she is about to learn that there are other magic books out there that can also do wondrous – or dreadful and terrifying – things.
Because where there is magic there is power and there are those who will stop at nothing to possess it.
Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is Drummond Fox who has a secret library of magical books hidden in the shadows for safekeeping, a man fleeing his own demons. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .
Because this book is worth killing for.
I’m currently reading Conspiracyland: Trolls, True Believers and the New Information War by Marianna Spring.
MY NAME IS MARIANNA SPRING AND SOME OF MY TROLLS SAY THEY WANT TO KILL ME
Ever since she became the BBC’s first disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring has delved into the worlds of media manipulators and conspiracy theorists. Meeting face-to-face with architects of hate and fake news, she discovers how people come to believe that terrible atrocities are staged, and that pandemics and climate change are the tools of an invisible elite bent on world domination.
Told with curiosity, urgency and, most of all, empathy, Conspiracyland pulls back the curtain on the information battle threatening us all, and bears witness to the real-world consequences that lie beyond our screens.
My next read might be The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins.
For twelve hours each day, the Scottish island of Eris is cut off from the mainland. No way in. No way out.
The island’s only house was once home to Vanessa, whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now this remote and beautiful place is home to Grace… a solitary creature of the tides, guarding the island’s past.
But far away in London, a stranger has just made a startling discovery – a human bone where no human bone should be. And in that moment Grace’s precious isolation is threatened. How will she respond? Can she be trusted? Or is it Grace who should be afraid?
Suddenly this is a very dangerous time to be alone…
And that’s my week in books! What are you reading this week? Let me know in the comments! 😎
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Simone St. James is so good. And I’m glad to hear you enjoyed The Book of Doors. Maybe I’ll get around to reading it by the end of the year 🙄.
Have you read, and did you enjoy, Murder Road? I found it distinctly meh.
The Book of Doors, on the other hand, I LOVED. Hoping to review it soon, so maybe I can tempt you to bump it up the list 😄
Well, I don’t quite remember much about it but since I gave it 5 stars at the time I’m assuming I loved it 😄. Sorry it didn’t work for you!