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Confidence by Rafael Frumkin
“It seems now like everything I’ve done in my life I’ve done because of love, a useless, gutting love that left me devoured from the inside.” Fans of books exploring white-collar crime and/or conmen & scammers should definitely give Rafael Frumkin’s sophomore novel Confidence a shot. There were aspects of the storyline that reminded me…
1st pov, 3.25 stars, Adult, America, American dream, bad love, Confidence, Contemporary, CRIME, cults, disabilities, gay, heartbreak/breakups, jealousy, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, Longing, m/m, masculinity, morality, obsession, prison, PRIVILEGE, psychological, published in 2023, queer, Rafael Frumkin, read in 2022, rich people, SEXUALITY, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, summer camps, toxic relationships, unrequited love, wellness culture, white-collar crime -
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel — book review
“But they were citizens of a shadow country that in his previous life he’d only dimly perceived, a country located at the edge of an abyss. ” Emily St. John Mandel’s prose in The Glass Hotel is certainly striking. She deftly weaves realism with a dreamlike atmosphere, while also adding an elegiac touch to otherwise…
2000s, 3 STARS, Adult, affairs, ARTISTS, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, canada, canadian author, class, Contemporary, drama, Emily St. John Mandel, female authors, ghosts/spirits, LITERARY FICTION, MAGICAL REALISM, MEMORY, MYSTERY, prison, published in 2020, read in 2020, rich people, sea, ship, The Glass Hotel, Vancouver/Vancouver island, white-collar crime, work culture -
The Law of Lines by Hye-Young Pyun — book review
“The future was a dark corridor. And though she would grope her way through it, the door at the end would be locked tight.” After reading that Hye-Young Pyun’s novel The Hole won the ‘Shirley Jackson Award’, I was intrigued to read her work. Thanks to NetGalley I was able to read The Law of…
3 STARS, Adult, CRIME, DEATH, family, female authors, GRIEF, Hye-Young Pyun, Korea, Korean, korean author, morality, netgalley, psychological, Psychological thriller, published in 2020, read in 2020, revenge, SISTERS, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, Sora Kim-Russell, SUSPENSE, The Law of Lines, THRILLER, TRANSLATED FICTION, violence, white-collar crime, work culture -
A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen — book review
A Beautiful Crime is a tantalisingly suspenseful part thriller part romance, one that brilliantly captures the landscape, aesthetics, and politics of Venice. “The love of the city had killed its people. Quite simply, Venice had been visited to death.” The opening of the novel has a terrific hook. We know that someone at some point…
4.25 stars, A Beautiful Crime, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, ART/CREATIVITY, cheating, Christopher Bollen, class, Contemporary, CRIME, gay, heist, Italy, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, m/m, male authors, museums, MYSTERY, NEW YORK, politics, published in 2020, queer, read in 2020, rich people, social issues, SUSPENSE, THRILLER, travel, Venice, white-collar crime
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