sunday spotlight







carpe librum 

seize the book - what a perfect thought! 

welcome book lovers


Each Sunday myself and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers
will be featuring /shining the spotlight on a book or book related themes.  Maybe it's a book we read and loved or maybe it's something we can't wait to read or a burning question we have...well you get the idea!

We also blog together on Book Club Thursdays (aka BCT) and on Fridays (various features).

Today my feature is:

taking chances

so - i'd love to know- what makes you take a chance on a certain type of book or author you have never read before? 

a review, recommendation, the cover, title, blurb, any, all or none of it? 

for me- the book basically just has to appeal to me and i've read a book based on all, one, or a combination of what i just mentioned above. 

i just featured this book on on happy release day and bought it, taking a chance on it because it just sounded so damn good. 



Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.
But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either.
Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate?
The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .



i am so happy i bought this book. i don't think i've ever quite read anything like it and that's a good thing. i'm half way thru it and am a HUGE fan. 

i can't wait to check out mr swanson's backlist. 

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