Hitting The Books-February 2025

This Month’s Featured Book Pairings…

This month’s read-a-likes are curated for the release of Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister. The story of a wife who awakens to find her husband gone with only a note left behind. She struggles with understanding the why of it all and when the truth begins to reveal itself, she will long to a return to a blissful state of ignorance.

You know what they say…fool me once.

SERIAL KILLERS GUIDE TO MARRIAGE – ASIA MACKAY

Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they're murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant. Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.

MAKE ME FAMOUS – MAUD VENTURA

Ever since she was a child, Cléo, the daughter of two academics, has had only one obsession: becoming a famous singer. Over the years, to everyone’s surprise but her own, she overcomes every obstacle and becomes a global superstar. But as any celebrity will tell you, getting to the top is one thing; staying there is another. Now thirty-three years old, Cléo is taking her first real vacation in years, on a remote island with no one else in sight. Where she can work on her fourth album in peace. Except that with so much time to think, she can’t help but ruminate on her past, including how, just six months earlier, things started to go very, very wrong…

THE ONCE AND FUTURE ME – MELISSA PACE

Pace’s amnesiac heroine, locked up in a mental institution and subjected to strange experimental procedures, must escape her padded prison and find out what exactly she’s forgotten, and what role her husband has played in all this, well, madness. I cannot tell you more without spoilers, but even as someone who reads 100+ books a year, I was genuinely surprised.

& So On…

Twisted: A Love Story – Samantha Downing

The Death Of Us – Abigail Dean

The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave