I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately. I’ve read lots of ok books but nothing that really wowed me. October is spooky season and there’s something about the fall that makes me want to light candles, make a giant cup of coffee, and settle in with a fantastic thriller!

Last winter I discovered Samantha Downing by reading her first book, My Lovely Wife. That book shook me like Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. Gillian Flynn walked so that Samantha Downing could run! Her second book He Started It was just as twisty as the first. She has a thing for sinister family dynamics, unreliable narrators, and unlikeable characters that are very compelling. I just finished her latest novel, For Your Own Good. It’s a thriller set at a prestigious private school where people suddenly start dying. It’s very heavy on the unlikeable characters. You’ve been warned! As a graduate of a prestigious private school, I’m not saying that I wished death on a classmate but I wouldn’t have been upset if a wicked bout of Mono rendered a few of them unable to attend school for the rest of the year…I’m just sayin’

I have a few more thrillers on my TBR for the rest of the year. Have you read anything good lately?