Karin Slaughter: Fractured

 

Abigail Campano, the mother of teenager Emma. comes home from her tennisclass and finds her daughter killed and the killer still in the house. The killer sees her and comes running towards her with a knife on his hands.  Abigail does what her survival instincs tell her to do: she kicks the killer so that he falls down, she gets on top of him and strangles him to death. 

But in reality he wasn't the killer and the girl lying dead wasn't her daughter. 

Her daughter has been kidnapped and the person she just strangled was probably the only person who could have helped her to find Emma. Instead the police and the agent Will Trent have trouble to realise what this crime is all about. The small secrets start to reveal themselves and the case seems sometimes even more complicated than in the beginning. 

Do they find the real murderer and what were the real reasons behind these several murders that occur in the book?!

Read to find it out, in my opinion this was the best crimenovel i've read in the past couple of years!

Suzanne Collins: Catching fire

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This is the second book of the Hunger Games-trilogy and it continues around the same subject.

Although this time around Katniss has survived from the Hunger Games and believes she would be coaching the next gamers for the game just as Haymitch did for her and Peeta.

Unfortunately it doesn't happen so. She and some other old survivers are put back into the game and for the second time they all have to fight for to come back alive from the game... Read yourself what happens..

Cecelia Ahern: The book of tomorrow

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Tamara Goodwins dad commits suicide and therefore she and her mother has to move from Dublin to stay with relatives in Kilsaney. Her mother is devastated and seems tired all the time. Her relatives does everything to keep her and her mother apart, so she starts to wonder if there is something most definitely wrong.

After meeting Marcus, the person who drives librarybus she gets her hands on a book that is locked. After getting the book opened, she realises that the pages are empty until suddenly it's filled with her own writing. Writing tells the story of tomorrow and now she has the chance to follow the leads her "diary" tells her to do, or follow her own path forgetting the diarys advices.

The first hundred or so pages wasn't that addicting to me but as the story got deeper, the more hooked i was. I'm glad that she found the empty book, i'm not sure how her and her mothers life would have ended without it.

Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic and baby

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This was probably the best shopaholic book i've read (so far). Becky is still the same overspending person but the situation is a little different and therefore after reading a lot of quite similar books, this is a nice change.

As you might assume from the title, Becky is having a baby. She hears that there's a maternity clinic who has (almost) only famous customers and she is determend to have her baby over there. What she doesn't realise is that the doctor is actually Luke's ex who wants Luke back and maybe in the end she isn't that happy she wanted to be among the famous.

Agatha Christie: Five little pigs

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Classic Agatha.

I'd like to say she never fails, but i've read one book where she in my opinion fails, so i can't really say that anyways. But this book didn't fail. Yet again it was hard to think of who could be the murderer because the way obvious suspects never end up being them.. Don't really know what else to say.

If you like Agathas books and Poirot, you'll like this one as well... Maybe this was different from the others in that sence that a lot of the parts consisted of letters sent to Poirot by the 5 people who were suspects of in a old murdercase.. So this one had less of the thinking of Poirot and his old gray cells, but to me it didn't bother.

Sofi Oksanen: Puhdistus

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For a really long time i stayed away from this book. A lot of people recommended it for me and everyone had something to say about it. I believe it was some sort of a pierpressure that drove me into reading it. And i'm glad it did happen.

The story opens up the history in Estonia and follows the tragic memories of Aliide Truu and other women whose lifes in the country hasn't been easy. The story itself is rough and you'll probably get grossed about it. Still it's a strong statement of a piece of history that i didn't even know it really existed.

Patricia Cornwell: Scarpetta

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I have almost all of these Kay Scarpetta-books but somehow along the way, i lost my intrest on them.. but my mother kept buying me these books anyways.. I didn't read them in years but this summer i read this one and yet again i found myself hooked and now i want to get my collection filled and read them all over from the beginning!

Katherine Neville: The Eight

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I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Dan Browns books. This has a similar storyline - she didn't copy him, this was written in the 1970s! And... Just a hint for someone who wonders/is scared: you don't have to know anything about chess to be able to follow the books storyline ;) Truly amazing storytelling!

John Boyne: The boy in the striped Pajamas

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Bruno is a young boy who with his family moves to the countryside. There he gets to know this other boy and they'll get really close friends. The other boy lives on the other side of a fence, he has dirty clothes and he is always hungry. Bruno brings him food and wonders what is life like over there on the other side. Little does he know that his father is a Nazi officer and the fence is around a concentration camp...

I'd say this is the most waking book about this certain subject. The innocence of these two boys is so heartbreaking and the ending made me sick to my stomach for days. 100 times better than the movie so go read it now!

Katy Gardner: Losing Gemma

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This is a book i've read over and over. It doesn't matter that i know how it ends i always tend to find something more out of it. I'm not sure if it's a bad or a good thing, but the couple of first pages already proves me to never go to India. People like Esther and Gemma go there to find themselves, but people like me either stay home or go somewhere where they don't have to think so much...

Sue Monk Kidd: The secret life of bees

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Co-worker of mine recommended this book to me with the words:" you just got to read it, i can't tell you anything about it because otherwise i'd give up the real point behind it.. But it's about bees and a girl. Go read it now!". And i read it, and i can't describe it to you guys either. You just have to read it yourselves.

The movie was good as well, Dakota Fanning makes so much justice to the character. Very well done. Can't actually say which one was better, the book or the movie..

Sarita Skagnes: Vain tytär (just a daughter)

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"Over half of the girls in India, die before age 15", "45% of the girls are physicaly abused at school, every other girl gets physicaly abused at home"...

Book is a self-biographical of the writers childhood in India and teenagelife in Norway after getting the chance to move over there and live with the rest of the family. Life in both India and Norway consists of hard work and violence from the familymembers. She doesn't want to approve the acts that are portraited towards her and she stoods up - what happens next?! Read and find out..

Kat Von D: High Voltage Tattoo

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Eventhough i don't have any tattoos of my own, and eventhough i don't even want to have - this book was amazing. All the different stories about each tattoo was as interesting as the story of Kat growing up to be a tattoo artist.