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Siri play, Kaien Cruz Dangerous.
Poe Webb has built a career on secrets. As the host of a wildly popular true crime podcast, she invites people to anonymously confess their darkest deeds—no guarantees, no protection, just the thrill of an audience hanging on every word. Once the episode ends, she wipes the slate clean. No names, no faces, no lingering guilt.
Until he shows up.
The voice on the other end of the mic isn’t just any confessor—he claims to have murdered Poe’s mother years ago. But there’s one glaring problem: Poe already knows who killed her mother. And she knows he’s dead. Because she made sure of it.
Now, the past Poe thought she’d buried is clawing its way back, and she’s forced to question everything. Who is this man? What does he really know? And most terrifying of all—what if she got it wrong?
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling psychological thriller that dares to ask: Are murderers always the villains? Or are some truths better left unspoken?
I didn’t expect this book to grip me so fast. I hoped with all my heart that it would be good—I’d just slogged through two or three bad thrillers after reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. And it wasn’t just because her book was amazing. Those others were just bad.
But Tell Me What You Did? It unlocked something in me—curiosity and fear. The curiosity to figure out what the hell was happening and how Poe’s life would unfold after that infamous episode with her mother’s real killer. And the fear of the unknown. Poe sits comfortably in her little house, talking to all sorts of weirdos—if not outright murderers—and somehow, that made me feel unsafe in my own home, miles away from her reality. This is a hardcore thriller, guys.
Alice Feeney may have opened the door for my 2025 reading, but wow—this is my second five-star book in two months, and that amazes me. I just finished it, and I’m still thinking about it while painting my nails with 151 Warm Cacao by Sally Hansen—because my mom raised me right.
I decided to take a break at midnight, turned on the coffee machine, and made myself a cup. I needed a girl break after this book.
I’ll definitely read more from this author. I loved the protagonist—even if she wasn’t the best person out there, I understood her perfectly. I wouldn’t change a single thing she did. The ending surprised me—not gonna lie—and her interactions with the killer throughout the book… wow. They made me question everything—my instincts, my beliefs, even myself.
This is a flawless 5/5, sharp as sterling silver—an absolutely gripping read. Highly recommend!
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I spent all Christmas eagerly waiting for Alice Feeney’s Beautiful Ugly because I just knew it was going to be incredible. It helps that she’s one of my favorite authors. But even so, I didn’t expect the story to hook me as deeply as it did.
The story is narrated by Grady, a man in his 40s who’s trying to win back his wife’s affection. His wife is a successful journalist who covers controversial topics, and she goes missing on her way home. She was supposed to arrive early to celebrate Grady’s return to the New York Times bestseller list.
Her disappearance wasn’t entirely shocking—after all, she often stirred up the lives of the rich and powerful. But I expected her to come back. Instead, things spiral for Grady. He loses their home because, before vanishing, his wife withdrew large sums of money from their joint account. Now, it’s just Grady, his dog, and his literary agent, Abby’s aunt—a fierce, wealthy woman in her 70s who has seen it all in the publishing world.
To help Grady get back on his feet (and out of his grief), she offers him access to a secluded cabin on an island—a property inherited from another famous author she used to manage. With the keys in hand and some financial backing, Grady heads to the island with his dog, hoping to write his next bestseller.
The island is… odd, to say the least. With only 25 residents spread across 10 square kilometers, it’s eerily quiet. Things take a turn when Grady starts seeing his missing wife around the island. Is it her? Or just his mind playing tricks?
As Grady begins to settle in, he meets the local sheriff, who invites him to dinner with her sister. During the evening, her sister mentions that a woman vanished from the island a year ago under mysterious circumstances. Shortly after, the body of an unknown man is discovered—someone no one on the island seems to recognize.
It’s a bit chilling if you think about it. Even more so when you consider that Grady isn’t exactly in the best mental state—he’s sleep-deprived and drinks a little too much.
The island is fascinating, full of mysteries and an odd collection of quirky residents. Interestingly, there are far more women than men living there. Sure, the natural beauty of the place makes sense, but I wouldn’t want to stay on an island like this, no matter how picturesque it is.
The book itself is fantastic. I loved every twist, and the horror elements added an extra layer of tension that worked so well. The ending wasn’t what I expected—though I had partially guessed what might happen—but it still managed to surprise me.
For me, this book is a solid 5/5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey, and it might just be my favorite book of the year. That said, I’m still processing how I feel about the ending.
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For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life. But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
A thriller that got my attention from the start, it’s a super good one because it’s super fast paced which I love. The fact that the sister weren’t even sisters… they grew up together at Miss Fairchild’s house of horrors who abused them shamefully and the story goes between a talk at the therapist, the on going investigation to find out who was burried under the house and the girls’s childhood. A shaking story but a good one.
I’ve believed for half of the book that Miss Fairchild is the body under but when the girls have to stay the night in the tiny town they grew up in for further questioning they end up meeting with the rest of the girls in a bar where at some point Miss Fairchild appears. It’s such an intense feelings of how abuse can fuck you over even years after, even if you live in a different reality now… it’s shocking.
Okaaaay, I loved this book, the story in itself is wild, it’s good but the last 2-3 pages… fucked me spinning. Gosh it was so good! The characters were on point, a novel, a crime novel about 3 sisters bound from their abused childhood omg… It’s so scary to think that these kids lived with Miss Devil in itself Fairchild.
Highly recommend.
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I love seeing the moon at dawn, when the sun just disappeared and the moon smiles on the sky, when the day turns into the magical and full of stars night. Love seeing it with my chest against the steering wheel and my eyes wide open in the summer sky. Listening to rock’n roll songs from the old radio, love songs… The desert surrounding me. The moon compeling me. The sound exciting me. Cheap motels near by, diners all around me, the smell of summer intoxicating me. I am free. Mountains of sand all around me… The night is young and so am I and I drive by, listening to songs of freedom.
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