A Well-Read Tart

A Food and Book Lover’s Blog

HIDE (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the horror/thriller novel Hide by Kiersten White. Fourteen people arrive at an abandoned amusement park for a life-changing opportunity. All they have to do is play an elaborate game of hide-and-seek, and the last person standing will win $50K. But, if they're all hiding, who's the seeker? Why is there blood on the...

STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent. After throwing her father’s corpse into the family trash incinerator, Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why her neighbors are treating her weirdly. But, it's fine; she's used to be on her own, and she has memories of her dad to keep her...

MY MURDER (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel My Murder by Katie Williams. After being brutally murdered, wife and new mother Lou is brought back to life via cloning, along with several other victims of her serial killer. She gets to return to her happy marriage. Her daughter. Her old job. All the parts of her life she was told she...

Quick Look Books: Thrillers (March 2019)

Thrillers. Easily one of my new favorite genres. For a long time, though, I wouldn't touch them. Although I love me some supernatural thrillers, I had no interest whatsoever in suspense, mystery, or "whodunits." I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I haven't always been so great at picking books to read. I was an English major, so I've read a lot of novels. I eagerly devoured whatever titles were assigned for AP English and Lit back in...