Michelle Sacks

I have a lot of feelings about punctuation and the lack thereof. It is not very challenging to do punctuation correctly, thus I have little patience for silly errors. It is a huge decision to choose to ignore conventional grammatical standards, and if you are going to make this decision, the payoff better be worth it. (And yes, sometimes it is. Of recent memory--SEVERANCE, I'm looking at you.) But I think this is becoming a trope, a device authors are using to make something because they think it makes the book more unique or more gripping. It doesn't. Unless it's done really well and it adds something. Which is not the case with this book. (Look, I'm defying grammatical conventions myself and using choppy sentences--I'm such a hypocrite.)

This book was pretty eh, but it ended exactly a stop before I had to get off the train, so that was nice. Again with the thriller thing--too many are not living up to my expectations right now.… (meer)

YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS is a thriller that really gets under your skin. You feel that something is wrong right from the start, really really wrong. And as the story progresses do you just know that it will get worse.

Sam and Merry live happily together with their little son Conor in a small cabin in the forests around Sigtuna. Everything is perfect, life couldn't be better. Merry is the perfect wife and mother and she loves life in Sweden. Together with Sam, the breadwinner in the family is Merry now looking forward to seeing their son grow up in idyllic Sweden.

Is everything really that good and why is Merry worrying about her best friend Frank visiting? Is life in Sweden really that good as they are trying to make it out to be?

The book is told from three POV, Sam, Merry, and Frank. And the picture they are showing is not that idyllic, vice versa instead. The last part of the book is actually quite chilling and really shows that the image we have of a person can be horrifying wrong.

YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS is a frightening thriller about the masks we humans are wearing that you can never know everything about each other. It also shows that childhood traumas can have consequences later in life. Who knows what kind of person you have married or do you really know your best friend?

I want to thank Southside Stories for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (meer)

Dolly’s dad, Joseph Rust, tells Dolly they are going on an adventure. Dolly grabs her toy, Clemesta, a plastic horse, who also is Dolly’s conscience, and is excited for the adventure with her Dad. Clemesta and Dolly “speak” to each other, and Dolly gains confidence from Clemesta. After a few days on the road, and amidst Clemesta’s warnings, Dolly starts suspecting that they aren’t really on an adventure, and she wants her Mom.
Told from the perspective of a 7 year old, with memories of words overheard, and a big imagination, this is a story of desperation, anguish, and the love between a child and her father.… (meer)