★★★★★
A train stopped at midnight in the snow. A dead body found in a compartment. Twelve stab wounds leave no doubt it was murder. And Hercule Poirot, tasked with solving the crime, is certain the culprit is a passenger on the Orient Express.
★★★★★
A classic study of shallowness, vanity, casual cruelty and hedonistic selfishness, all presented as a suspenseful Gothic horror novel
★★★★★
Dark and twisted horror novel with a slow build-up of a sense of unease, with both the reader and the protagonist asking themselves, "Is there something ominous, or are we reading too much into nothing?"
★★★★☆
Story detailing the lives of a group people living before, through and after a pandemic wipes most of humanity. 'Survival is insufficient' - Star Trek Voyager
★☆☆☆☆
Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.
★★★★★
Influential murder-mystery that is clever and suspenseful. This gem will keep you guessing!
★★★★★
Fear, obsession, paranoia... this book is the stuff nightmares are made of. It is noir psychological suspense at its finest.
★★★☆☆
The Handmaid's Tale is an incredibly well-written dystopian tome, presented as a diary of "Handmaid", living in an extremely misogynistic, horrifying world.
★★★★★
The origin story of sparrowhawk, the greatest wizard of Earthsea. As the young boy learns to be a wizard, his pride and ego causes him to take some mis-steps; and as a young man, he uses his skill and resourcefulness to rectify those mis-steps
★★☆☆☆
For the greater glory of God, but does that apply when dealing with alien creatures with even more alien cultures?
★★★★★
Arguably the best work by Stephen King. Seven teenagers first stumble upon the horror one summer, and now they are grown-ups who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name...
★★★★★
Caught in an war he doesn't want to be in, and completely disconnected from the very world he is fighting for, Mandella's war goes on... forever!
★★★★★
Another collection of short stories, following the adventures of the collection The Last Wish. Geralt forges ahead, battling monsters, demons and prejudices alike...
★★★☆☆
A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who has become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.
★★★☆☆
First book of a YA fantasy series with excellent and rich world building and complex characters who are not all stark black-and-white.
★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.