Rapid reviews on every novel I read in 2023 that was published in 2023. Two sentences or less. Let’s go.Disclaimer: Aster’s Book Hour is an Amazon Associate. It earns a small commission from qualifying purchases attached to the Amazon affiliate links in this post.All The Dangerous Things: A thriller worth reading. …
Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell
After the sudden passing of his family, Connor has struggled to write. Years after their deaths, he is able to publish an enticing thriller about the murder of a young woman. The catch? He didn’t write it. A missing student of his did, and when she appears at his doorstep …
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Even those outside of Wakarusa, Indiana know of January Jacobs, the six-year-old found dead in a ditch mere hours after her family discovered she was missing. Margot is more familiar with the case than most as she was the same age and next-door neighbours with the Jacobs when January was …
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
On an unassuming night in 1929, a triple homicide shocked the coast of Maine. Decades later, the then seventeen-year-old Lenora Hope, is still the main suspect in her family’s murders but with no proof, she’s never been charged and has remained at the cliffside mansion since that bloody night. Now …
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
Based on a true story, The Little Wartime Library, focuses on a underground library and a nation’s determination to survive. Librarian Clare Button has risked everything to transform part of the Bethnal Green tube station into London’s only underground library, helping make the station home to a thriving secret community …
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Carrie Soto is fierce. Her determination to win regardless the cost has not made her popular in the world of tennis but she couldn’t care less as she retired holding the title of best tennis player in the world. She has shattered every record, won twenty Grand Slams, and if …
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Located on a tiny island, Nana’s crumbling estate is where estranged family members have come together to celebrate her 80th birthday. All that arrive are harbouring secrets and at the stroke of midnight, a storm begins to rage. An hour later, Nana is found dead. An hour after that, another …
Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild
Ruby has killed – three times to be exact – but she is not a sociopath. She is a respected psychologist with a thriving practice, has long-lasting and meaningful friendships, and is married to a husband she adores. The Miami Beach PD don’t believe in her adoration and are convinced …
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Parents are ruthless when it comes to their children. The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger navigates the fear of parents and the achievement, failure, talent, and privilege of their children in modern-day America. Through observing a community of friends, this novel tackles good intentions and high ambitions with the newly opened …
The Change by Kirsten Miller
In the oceanfront community of Mattauk, three women discover that middle age comes with changes – and a new type of empowerment. It doesn’t take Nessa James long to figure out her childhood gift has resurfaced and that the voices calling to her, are those of the dead. Harriet Osborne’s …
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
Marin lived the perfect life – that is until her son is abducted. One year later and Marin is a shell of her former self. The case has officially gone cold, the public is no longer interested in finding her missing boy, and her relationship with her husband has disappeared. …
Hide by Kiersten White
Mack is one of the fourteen competitors selected to compete in a new reality show where all you have to do to win the life-changing cash prize is stay hidden for seven days and seven nights in an abandoned amusement park. Easy, as Mack’s speciality is hiding but as each …