I Am No One

from erikschreppel

Good suspense leaves you engaged and tense even when nothing is really going on. Alfred Hitchcock said it best when describing surprise vs suspense, paraphrasing but surprise is when there is a bomb and it goes off, suspense is when you know there is a bomb and it isn't going off....yet. "I Am No...

from Crazymamie

"Truth may be beautiful, but it lacks the artistry of lies." Okay, so I seriously wanted to like this one. It sounded right up my alley, and it almost delivered. The blurb about it says that after teaching for over a decade in England, an American college professor returns to New York to teach at...

from angiestahl

This book is squishy and a bit tricky to review. It's chief strengths are that it's well-written and intelligent. The main character tells the story from his POV and he's often a little bit late to his own party. He's not unlikeable but came across to me as intelligent, kind (or well-meaning) and...

from MisterMelon

This is a hard book to review without spoilers. I'll try to leave them out, but still, consider this your spoiler alert. Ultimately for me, the main draw of the book was the persistent question of whether the events in the novel (government surveillance, mostly) were really happening, or if they ...

from amaryann21

Jeremy is a professor at NYU and recently back from about a decade at Oxford. The strange events start small, a missed appointment with a student that his email says he rescheduled, but he doesn't remember sending or receiving any email. Then he keeps running into the same guy over and over... Is...