HOME BEFORE DARK by Riley Sager

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
My goodreads rating: 4 of 5 stars
My Personal rating: 3.5 Stars - 7/10 (B) ENJOYABLE

This is my introduction to Riley Sager as an Author. I had heard so many good things about his writing and they are all true. He is an excellent writer - What I will say is that I adored this book until the ending. The ending just fell flat for me. There were too many red herrings that just made things confusing and then truth was disappointing. It was just not what I was hoping for in an ending but can appreciate what this book had to offer. I thought it was eerie and spooky and held my interest, wanting to know more. The story gives the right amount of intertwining of the scenes out of the book in the story along with the current timeline. It was engaging and exciting to read and unveil.

I still very much enjoyed the ride and will definitely read more of Riley Sager.


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October Wrap up

I can't believe October is over already, where are the days going. I'll be wrapping up some of my Group themes and creating new ones for November as well as summing up the books I've read in October providing Links to my Reviews.

All in all October was a very good month for me, a lot of new authors were read and some old favorites. Here are My October Reads:

Violets are Blue by James Patterson 4/5 Stars

Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger 5/5 Stars

The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 3/5 Stars

The Perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 4/5 Stars

The adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson 5/5 Stars (Favorite)

Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland 3/5 Stars

The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 3/5 Stars

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 3/5 Stars

My favorite for the month was definitely the Adoration of Jenna Fox, it was just a very well written book and I loved the uniqueness of the story. I would like to read more my Pearson.

The following are the group themes and/or challenges that are now closed.

BOOKTIVITY HALLOWEEN THEME Wrap Up

The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Headless Horseman)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Princess costume)

PBT OCT TAG: CONTEMPORARY FICTION

The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Violets are Blue by James Patterson

PBT OCT ADMIN TAG: DEBUT

Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger

PBT OCT TAG: OTHER

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The 6th Target by James Patterson

I was disappointed that I didn't read anything from the Author Author choices this month as I have a few in my TBR pile. I did however attempt to read Never Let Her Go by Ishiguro and couldn't get through it. I felt like something was wrong with me because so many people rated this book 5 stars that I thought I may as well not finish it now and some other day try again.

AUTHOR AUTHOR

Kazuo Ishiguro
Kurt Vonnegut
Philip K Dick

November brings new themes and challenges from my groups and here they are:

Booktivity November: Activity (Anything in the title that is an activity/verb), I'm looking forward to this one.

Booktivity November Special: I thank for... (November is the month when Thanksgiving is celebrated (not in Germany though). Because of this occasion we are going to celebrate too! If you read any book with something in the title you would want to thank for please post your review for this book here.)

PBT Nov Tag: Thriller (Books that are tagged Thriller on Shelfari.com) - I have a lot of thrillers in my TBR pile , so hopefully I'll hit this a lot this month.

PBT Nov Tag: Other (Books read that are not tagged Thriller on Shelfari.com)

Author, Author Group

Featured: Nora Roberts

Alternate: Anne Rice

Alternate: O Henry

Looks like I'm in for some good reading this month. Also have a few ongoing challenges that I have to really kick up my reading plans for.