Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna

I simply cannot resist an apocalypse story. Especially one grounded in real life, rather than fantasy / horror tropes. So Breakdown was a must! It’s very different from the usual premise. A virus wipes out a critical portion of the world’s population, meaning that the survivors have to painstakingly reconstruct society (oh, how I loved theContinue reading “Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna”

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Last year it seemed like everyone was reading Gone Girl, and I just never caught on. So I thought I’d try Sharp Objects, Flynn’s first novel, before catching up with the rest of the universe. It’s a disturbing read, both in subject matter and in the resonance to relationships many of us have experienced inContinue reading “Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn”