I had the chance to read three great books during vacation and my recovery week! I recommend all three if you like a thriller, you like to have your pulse race, your heart beat fast. If you like to not be able to put down a book because you need to know what happens next! These three books are for you!
RATTLESNAKE ISLAND BY JENNIFER VAUGHN
The first book I finished in less than two days, written by NH's Jennifer Vaughn. I love her writing so much and as soon as Rattlesnake Island came out I purchased to have for a vacation book. Jennifer tells a great story as always, and I just love her details of the characters. She draws you in so much with her writing. This was a thriller and I didn't want to put it down. Here is the description:
What really happened on Rattlesnake Island in the summer of 1987?
Investigative reporter Marley Kassell wants the true story behind the cult-like rumors of a supernatural creature and a dozen boys killed in the water. She is determined to flush it out, if only the one person who survived agrees to tell her.
For almost four decades, Grady Whitmore has remained silent about the horrors he endured as a teenaged juvenile delinquent shipped from a Boston detention center to a remote island on a sprawling Maine lake. Meant to expose them to the great outdoors and foster independence, the trip is doomed from the start, as though some unspeakable evil loomed.
In granting Marley his first ever interview, Grady sweeps her into a gripping tale of terror unleashed by a monster with shark-like teeth and a serpent’s body, hunting their canoes from beneath the water, and striking them down one by one.
Marley free-falls into Grady’s past, back to 1987, his memories as spellbinding as they are wicked. His account of being spared from the savage creature’s unthinkable violence almost writes itself.
IF YOU TELL BY GREGG OLSEN
The next book I read, If You Tell, written by, Gregg Olsen was the hardest book I have ever read emotionally. It's based on a true story and although the content was so hard to process with the abuse by a mother on her family, I couldn't put it down. I needed to know how it ended. I needed to know how everyone survived. As I lounged by the pool with all these families having fun I felt so guilty reading of the lives of three women and what they went through during their childhood. I will say it is an amazing story and although horrifying it so worth the read. Here is the description:
A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.
Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolute evil―and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today―loving, loved, and moving on.
ALL THE LITTLE RAINDROPS BY MIA SHERIDAN
The last book I read is All the Little Raindrops, written by Mia Sheridan. This was another thriller of a story; a book you don't want to put down. Another story that your skin crawls when you read it, but you just can't get enough, because you need to know how it ends, you need to make sure everyone comes out of it in the end. There were so many questions when reading this book and I was very impressed how everything was perfectly wrapped up by the end. The author really did a great job making you the reader feel their emotions and pain. I. held my breath countless times during this book. She really made you feel the pain of the characters. Here is the description:
The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, years later, bring them back to the scene of the crime.
It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped. Neither knows why they were chosen, only that they share a tragic past: Evan’s father got away with killing Noelle’s mother, effectively ruining her family when the death was ruled an accident.
Despite the connection that should have made them enemies, the teens instead unite to face their other common denominator―their abductors. Noelle and Evan survive one sadistic circumstance after another, eventually making a harrowing escape. But every happy ending comes at a price…
Years later, Evan, now a private investigator, revisits the crime when he learns it may be ongoing. He reaches out to Noelle for help, and they discover that the answers lie with a man known only as the Collector. To close their case and solve the ones that followed, Noelle and Evan must unmask this mysterious spectator―the only man who knows enough secrets to take their captors down.