MellowDrama

If you would want to give your system a shock or a jolt then this book is for you. If you are facing a reader's block and thrillers are your thing then read this book. Pick this book if you want to have a good time page after page. *********************************** The Plot No Time for Goodbye by the Canadian author Linwood Barclay is a nail biting thriller that is as simple and humane as it is complex. As a 14 year old Cynthia Bigge is dragged from her boyfriend's arms by her father who finds her sloshed in his car one night. Next morning Cynthia wakes up to find that her parents and brother have disappeared without leaving a single trace or note for her. The house is spic and span as her mother likes to keep it, nothing is out of place or amiss to suggest any kind of foul play and still no one can seem find anything about her family. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of this event, Cynthia agrees to feature in a documentary about this. A few days later strange things be...

Read this book if you are looking to not tax your brain and a happy place to be in. Pick it up if female friendship and solidarity brighten your day and lift your spirit. Read it if you have or crave friends who stick with you and don't falter in calling out your self-harming (if any) games. ******************************* Sassy and charming, as well as a social commentary of sorts that the over-the-top setting of the book would allow, When Life Gives You Lululemons by Laura Weisberger of the Devil Wears Prada fame, was a 'New York Times Bestseller' and among Best Books of Summer 2018. I don't remember how I got to it but am I glad that I did. It is a light read, pacy and with a kickass heroine and co-heroines who are all set to bring down a man who has set up one of these three friends. If you have read either of the two Devil Wears Prada books or seen  the movie then you will be familiar with Emily Charlton (played by Emily Blunt in the movie), the former firs...