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books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 038

The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White

“We should not be forced to chase closure. What we need to find are ways to coexist with our complex feelings, and to always remember that our reactions are completely normal. They’re not a sign of personal weakness.”

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Title: The Ghost Writer

Author: Loreth Anne White

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2024

Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, gothic, suspense, crime

Blurb: Grace Logan can't ghostwrite the memoir of Claudia Blackwell, a successful novelist once accused of a ghastly triple murder. Did she really do it? In self-imposed exile within her island mansion, the frail Claudia is finally bringing her notorious past to a close...but for Grace, the end of Claudia's story may be more than a sinister reveal.

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Лорет Энн Вайт "Утонувшие девушки"

На старинном кладбище найдена едва живая девушка, которую преступник оставил умирать у ног статуи девы Марии. Одновременно из горо��ского канала выловили замотанное в пленку неопознанное тело. На лбу обеих жертв вырезано распятие.

К делу приступает молодой детектив Энджи Палорино, но она берется за него с опаской. Мало того, что после начала расследования Энджи стала слышать жуткие голоса в голове, так еще и новый сотрудник Джеймс, с которым она вынуждена работать в паре, оказался ей знаком по совершенно иному поводу…

Обычно я не читаю авторов женщин, потому что они, в своём большинстве, пишут "типичные женские романы" в каком угодно жанре и обычно это не что-то шедевральное, что захочется перечитать. Этот триллер-детектив отлично зайдёт на разок, да так, что оторваться будет сложно. Не смотря на мягкий переплет и мелкий шрифт, а также внушительное количество страниц, я закончила книгу за две вечера. Сюжет захватывающий, зрелищный и динамичный, много мерзости и извращений и сцен 18+

Как оказалось, это первая из цикла трилогии книг о женщине детективе (к слову как раз гг мне совершенно не понравилась своей неадекватностью) но других у меня нет. Специально покупать не стану, но если кто-то подарит, то прочту ☺️

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Book Rec: The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White

When bones are discovered in a remote location, a cold case gets new life.

As her own life is in a tailspin, Detective Jane Munro becomes lead in a cold case with numerous suspects. Relying on scientific evidence, new technology, old eyewitness accounts and the victim herself, Munro and her team unravel the secrets held in the dark for decades.

The Unquiet Bones offers a compelling plot while keeping a brisk pace.

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See more of Beth's recs

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I’m officially a Kindle Girlie!! 🥰💖

I did not meet my editing deadline, but I have been reading like crazy. So, I’m giving myself some grace for that. AND!!! I finally bought a Kindle. This is my first baby and I can’t wait for my case and my little advent sticker box from Bookbabedesigns to come in! 😆

Honestly, I didn’t love it at first and kinda whined about wanting the colorsoft instead because I love the color of book covers; HOWEVER, it took all of maybe two hours before it grew on me and now I just want to be reading on it 24/7. I think about it at work and when I’m driving 😂 my nightly screen time has lessened, I’m not super tired in the mornings, etc.

Anyways, this wasn’t meant to be a review. I’m just so happy with this purchase and I would love some recommendations on what to read next. I just finished The Patient’s Secret and really liked it.

I’ll be going back to ACOSF when Spotify replenishes my audio hours 🥲 I swear I’m almost finished… or I think I am this time lol.

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Book Review: The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Ghost Writer (Never Tell Collection, #2) The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 5 of 5 starsKindleWow! What a twist!   I really enjoyed this story complete with psychotic killers and a remote castle island. Neat twist at the end too.View all my reviews Amazon A reclusive author with a lurid history is ready to divulge her most infamous secret to the world in a chilling short story…

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THE SWIMMER by Loreth Anne White at The Reading Cafe:

'a detailed, dramatic, gritty and raw look at madness and obsession, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, and dysfunctional family dynamics'

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Books of 2023 #36

The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

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Ooo, you should drop some book recommendations for winter break reads!

oh girl i read so much, idek where to start.

the books i’m reading right now are:

tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica

the patient’s secret by loreth ann white

behind you by mike omer

behind closed doors by b.a harris

i’ll get back to you by becca grischow

make my wish come true by rachel lippincott and alyson derrick

so yeah know yall know that i read many books at a time 😭 if u want some other book recs im more than happy to share

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april 2024

01 - Americana by Luke Healy (5/5) 📙🌈

05 - The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (3/5) 🎧📘

09 - Weyward by Emilia Hart (3/5) 🅱📘🌈🎯

16 - The Fury by Alex Michaelides (4/5) 🅱📘🎯

22 - Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod K. Anderson (3/5) 📘

24 - The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White (3/5) 🎧���🌈

30 - Winter Palace by Dennis Jones (3/5) 📘

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Ok fuck it I'm bookposting. There will be a LOT of thoughts and there will be MAJOR MAJOR spoilers. (The book in question is The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Ann White in case anyone's planning on reading it and wants to skip spoilers)

Funnily enough my favorite part of the book was before it even started. The inside cover declaring “bones are never silent if you ask the right questions,” followed by the quote about evil sleeping in your bed and eating at your table, followed by the trigger warning about generational trauma (given literally two pages after saying the book is “for my mom,” which made me say UH OH out loud upon seeing it but turned out to be purely coincidental) - in just a few pages, the author set up the themes of the book perfectly before the story even properly began.

And then I kept reading and a whole bunch of other stuff happened.

I’m being cheeky about it but honestly this was a very ambitious book and given the amount of characters and plot threads the author was juggling I feel like she did a good job tying things together and creating some satisfying character arcs. 

I think some things potentially could have been handled differently or gone more in depth? The stuff with Jill in particular (and to an extent Cora as well) was interesting to me because it brought to mind a long history of Black men being murdered because of a fear of them going after white women - ex Emmett Till, the violence spread by Birth of a Nation. After what Jill told the Hendrickses when they first started working together, I don't think they would have needed Jane’s help to be suspicious of her motivations.

That being said, it's a Canadian book and they have a different history from the States so that might be outside the author's field of reference - she made a clear effort to handle things respectfully and I personally like that she tried to broach these kinds of topics and examine them from different sides.

While I was reading I ended up spending a lot of time speculating on who the Six would turn out to be, and then wondering how their storylines connected to Knox's, and then comparing levels of blame and culpability amongst the lot of them - so as a whodunit and a page turner it was great, but I was a little sad the synergy I felt from the themes from the beginning didn't carry as strongly through the whole book. That doesn't mean the book was bad though - I was mostly just trying to get back into reading and it very much delivered on that.

Motherhood was a major focus. I like that we got to see the weight and responsibility of it, its best and worst sides. The good and bad of closure was also a big part of the story, and how something bad can cling to you and shape you over your life. The idea of ancient truths being resurfaced, ancient sins haunting peoples lives, did still feature heavily.

I like that Jane and Angela both grew over the course of the book. I felt really bad for Mary and Heather though, I hope they pulled through ok. This is really nitpicky on my part but there was a scene where the police had gotten a photo of Mary from a news story on hanging baskets and I had to close the book because I was like can you PLEASE give this poor woman a character trait beyond liking hanging baskets. Just say they got the photo from her company website or Facebook or something.

I also felt so incredibly sad for Annalise being failed by all the adults in her life, and Darryl and his family getting caught up in Annalise’s friends’ bullshit.

Not sure if I agreed with some of the narrative around punishment - people who do bad things not just being held accountable but also deserving to suffer, deserving everything bad that happens to them - but that kinda comes with the territory liking crime fiction :p

(I’m still ironing out my opinions on the matter - there should be consequences for committing crimes and being a shitty person, and people should be protected from murder and violence.

But on the other hand, I don't think doing something bad means that you can't turn your life around and grow. Some of the characters in the book did manage to do that, it just didn’t seem to matter much in the end.)

I guess the takeaway I got is that violence and trauma is messy, and a lot of innocent people get caught up in it. And like the book says, (couldn't find where so I could quote it exactly) sometimes good people do bad things.

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And now here’s me deciding which of the characters were the Worst lol.

Annalise's parents were. Pretty fucking bad. Their actions hurt so many people and ruined so many lives, including their own. The way they treated their daughter was inexcusable. And while Faith wasn't subjected to the same abuse as her sister she still was broken by the environment her parents created.

Fuck Knox. He knew what he was doing and stalking and statutory rape is bad. 

Cora didn't kill anyone, but she was willing to lie about an innocent man and destroy his reputation, and more than willing to help cover up his murder since it got her closer to Bob. She pressured Jill into lying for them too, even though Jill was otherwise uninvolved - she also as an adult pressured Jill into hosting the group at her house even though she was clearly uncomfortable. She seemed happy to push Jill's boundaries and get her in trouble with the law so long as Cora got what she wanted. She deliberately tried to ruin Bob and Annalises relationship even though the two genuinely loved each other because she wanted Bob to herself. And then when her relationship with Bob was irrevocably destroyed due to her own callousness and manipulation she decided to cut him loose and try to save herself. She didn't commit as many crimes as some of the others but she's arguably the most immoral and chilling of the Six. She just fundamentally doesn't seem to care about other people beyond their benefit to her and showed no remorse for her actions.

Fuck Claude. He turned his life around and did a good job with those kids, but he took advantage of Annalise when she was drunk, which also meant sleeping with his best friends girlfriend. He helped beat a guy he knew was innocent to death and then destroyed said guy's reputation, and lied and manipulated Mary into being his accomplice. And then as an adult, he blackmailed her into continuing to hide his secrets when she didn't want anything to do with him. And left her, a 63 year old woman, alone on a highway at night where it's illegal to walk. He did it out of fear and to try and protect his family, but fuckin yikes man.

Bob murdered Darryl and covered it up after, ruining his reputation and bringing incredible grief to his family. He genuinely loved Annalise and she genuinely loved him - he just took it to a horrific extreme. Also what he did to Rocco was fucked. But he did find out that his friends had both slept with his beloved girlfriend. And that his relationship with his wife was founded on a lie. And that he had killed an innocent man. So like. None of that makes what he did ok but I did have moments of sympathy for him.

Jill… phew. Her only crime was obstructing justice (albeit in a really racially charged way) because she wanted to fit in, she at least didn’t commit murder or assault. But the way she acted after leaves a bad taste in my mouth. She knowingly helped to cover up Darryl’s murder… and then went on to marry a man that looked like him and insinuated herself into working with his family on all her charities. Charities quite likely based on what she assumed was a major pain point in Darryl’s life.

For the others, it was unclear how much Darryl’s Blackness influenced their actions. It likely affected Claude some, just at a level he seemed unaware of and never closely explored. But for Jill, it was like that one aspect of Darryl’s identity consumed her. She couldn't move past his Blackness, the foreignness of his relatives. It was like she was so afraid of (gasp!) being racist that she was unable to fully hold herself accountable for what she did. She tried so hard to convince herself she couldn't possibly be Like That, she's a good person actually, she swears - that she ended up just making everything weirder.

Rocco hurt Darryl badly. He also took advantage of Annalise and betrayed Bob. But the utter guilt and misery he experienced over his life… He served his punishment. And the fact that he was an addict and in a fragile mental state and his friends used that to take advantage of him and make him their scapegoat sucks. They just lied to him and let him blame himself for everything. He wasn't a great guy but I do feel bad that he tried so hard to crawl out of the pit he was in and never quite managed to succeed.

Mary lied to the police about Claude's alibi. She became an outcast, a pariah, after what happened. Many people blamed her for Annalises disappearance and the rest of the Six just stood by and let her take the fall. She didn't know the group was responsible for Darryls murder, she didn't fully understand what she was protecting them from. Cora made the choice to tell Jill the truth when she pressed; Claude didn't do that with Mary - possibly because he thought she wouldn't go along with it if he did. He made the crime seem smaller, more reasonable. And once she did realize things were worse than what she'd been led to believe, what could she do? Who would believe her word against all of theirs, especially with the public backlash she'd already faced? She was just trapped in a bad situation. It wasn't until the night the group met as adults that she learned the full truth, and at that point it was only a few days before the police would find them regardless. She could have gone to the cops and spilled, but she was too worried about her daughter and too used to not standing up for herself to reach out. And the sad thing is, when Isaias talked to the cops, he acted like Mary was on the same level of culpability as the others even though… she was kinda just a victim of circumstance? She did obstruct justice. She did make some bad choices. But Faith did that too, and wasn't shown to be arrested or charged (though that could have happened offscreen).

Then again, Faith never outright lied to the cops. She steered the investigation away from her parents, but at the time she only knew about the abuse and the pregnancy - she didn't know they were the ones who'd killed Annalise. And while she burned the journal, she kept the most important entry from it intact. I don't know that I would have been as protective of her parents as she was, knowing what she knew. But I can also understand not wanting to go through any more pain.

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k i n d l e

✿ The Invisible Life of Addy LaRue | V.E. SCHWAB | 448 | Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Novelist as a Vocation | HARUKI MURAKAMI | 224 | Essay, Autobiography

✿ Dark Matter | BLAKE CROUCH | 352 | Science Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction

The Ghost Writer | LORETH ANNE WHITE | 300 | Gothic Suspense

The June Paintings | MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD | 38 | Short Story, Fiction

✿ The Cruel Prince | HOLLY BLACK | 416 | Fantasy Fiction, Romantasy

The Wicked King | HOLLY BLACK | 368 | Fantasy

We'll Always Have Summer | JENNY HAN | 321 | Romance, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fiction

✿ Bride | ALI HAZELWOOD | 416 pgs | Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Vampire Literature

p r i n t

sadly, none as of yet. i have started and dnf'ed far too many.

a u d i o

same as above :?

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s h o w s

Apple TV's "Dark Matter" | episodes and length | director and script writers

✿ Prime's "My Lady Jane" | episodes and length | director and script writers | sent me on a three month hyperfixation spree all because of some slutty necklaces, witty banter and hungry pining

Prime's Adaptation of Jenny Han's "The Summer I Turned Pretty" | episode and length | director and script writers | I have rewatched this silly little series about dumb teenagers riddled with poor communication skills and being messy drunks far more times than I can count on my fingers

Season 4 of OBX | Was slightly dissapointed with the lack of Rafe Cameronness to the season, he was sooo tame and evolved. Also disliked the creative decision to split the season into halves and space them apart weeks (what a way to kill the momentum!). Did NOT watch part 2 after spoilers revealed major character death - bc therapy is expensive.

f i l m s

A Quiet Place : Day One

Deadpool & Wolverine

A Family Affair

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Hey! I hope it’s okay that I sent an ask (it seemed like the easiest way to ask without worrying about character limits), but I would absolutely love some psychological thriller, mystery, and crime novel recs on Kindle Unlimited! I hope that you’re doing as well as possible, and honestly thank you so much for offering recs in the tags because I really appreciate it. 💕

Hello!! Don't worry about sending an ask, I hope you're doing great too ❤️

Alright so reccomendations. Though now that I think about it these edge more towards crime and thriller than straightforward mystery, as a note.

By Loreth Anne White:

1.The Patient's Secret

2. The Maid's Diary

3. The Devil's Bridge

And by Freida McFadden:

1. Never Lie

2. The coworker

Both of these authors have a lot of books in genre and most are pretty good! I've been going through their works the last couple months. These are my favourites among them, appended with my mom's favourites because we're also sharing our Kindle unlimited.

This one I'm still reading so I can't fully reccomend yet, but The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry is very interesting so far.

I really hope there's something here you enjoy!! Kindle has a pretty decent algorithm so if you download a few of these, it'll probably become quite easy to find more.

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See What I Can't-Wait For ~ The Unquiet Bones by Loreth Anne White ~ 12/06/23 (Can't-Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday) @wishfulendings #CWW #WOW

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine. If you’re continuing with WOW, feel free to link those up too! Find out more here. This comes out on March 5,…

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The Unquiet Bones

Title: The Unquiet Bones Author: Loreth Anne White Genre: thriller Thank you, NetGalley, for this book. I’m a fan of White’s and have read several of her books including Beneath Devil’s Bridge, A Dark Lure, In the Dark, and The Lucky Ones, and am always excited to read a new one. However, this one fell flat for me. The main character and plot were fine, but this book had way too much going on…