no one to hear you scream by julia madeline

Title: No One To Hear You Scream
Author: Julia Madeline
Pages: 268
Published: March 22nd, 2011
Rating: 5 /5
Source: Provided by the author

Synopsis (Goodreads):

In upstate New York, Brett and Pamela Jameson find the house of their dreams on twenty acres of land. Bucolic and serene, it is the answer to all of their prayers. But their dream soon turns into a nightmare when violent ex-gang member Rory Madden, the property’s former owner returns, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the home he lost to foreclosure. Rory unearths the secrets hidden within the Jameson family, and begins to leverage his knowledge to slowly drive wedges between them. When their seventeen year-old daughter Justine falls prey to Rory’s advances, she becomes a co-conspirator, setting about a series of increasingly treacherous events that could forever tear the Jameson family apart. A terrifying odyssey into the dark side of the American dream, No One to Hear You Scream captures the fear of the modern middle-class, the alienation of those left out, and the heart-stopping terror at the realization that it can all be taken away in an instant.

What I Think:

This is actually a very good book since I've read the last thriller book and review it on the blog. The author really got me hooked with all the suspense and twists. The book is more like a psycho-thriller book that would make you wonder and keep guessing what is going to happen and who's the culprit. The mysteries of the past also mysterious to the readers. The plot is well organized and so detail but not too dragged to make you lost interest. The storyline of dysfunctional family, with every members have their own issues, makes the story well-blended and resulting a great thrill. Am definitely will wait for her next book in future.

About the Author:

Julia Madeleine is the youngest daughter of Irish immigrant parents from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born in Canada and raised in a small town in southern-western Ontario on the shores of Lake Huron, Julia honed her dual passions for art and fiction writing from the time she was old enough to hold a crayon. As a teenager she moved to Toronto and graduated in Media Writing from Sheridan College. She wrote for a number of entertainment magazines, while spending all her free time writing fiction, and then in 2000, her passion for art led her, quite by accident, into a career in the tattoo industry.

Visit her at: Website | Goodreads | Blog

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy from the author for an exchange of fair review. Receiving a copy in no way will ever reflected my review and these are my honest review.

Note: The book review joins Cym Lowell Book Review Wednesday.

i'm back and snailly is my new best friend!

Hello dear friends! I know that no one ever miss my absence on the net but I feel very haapy because now I can go back to my old life. Blogging, reading and reviews, reding at leasure etc etc etc.

However, working life is very challenging. I don't know why I ever want to study so hard and get a very pathetic and boring, very boring job. Haha. It's not that I don't lik my work by I kind of in a way, trying to adapt with it. God, being collage student is way too easy than working. Welcome to independent life folks!

So that being said, my everyday schedule is very tight, plus, I'm a newlywed bride! Having 2Ws (Working and Wife) is not easy. And imagine I cook everyday! So there you have it, working, being a wife, cooking, reading, extra workload from office, and planning to be a student again, oh-oh...

I can't imagine if I have kids in future. So bookworms out there who is a wife, working, being a mum, you are gems! Super bionic-woman!

Then I need to update a lot of things. I hosted a challenge last year and still not updating the it (participants, please forgive me and promise will let you know something about it!), my own challenge for 2012 (I didnt finish any of the book challenges last year, so it was very pathethic and I still can feel how lame I am right now), also need to catch up with other blogger buddies (if they still remember me lol) and etc etc etc.

I change my blog layout. I know it's too girlish and too pinkish, but I dont care. Haha. I still think a professional layout is better but I need something colorful and bright to cheer up my every boring day.

Keep in touch dear friends and hope I'm still welcomed in this big wide world community. =)

Darlyn.

lovesick by spencer seidel (arc)

Title: Lovesick
Author: Spencer Seidel
Pages: 376
Rating: 4.5/5

Summary (from arc):

THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH LEE…

Late one night out on the Eastern Promenade Trail in Portland, Maine, the police discover an incoherent teenager sitting in a pool of blood, holding the body of his best friend and the murder weapon. The girl they both love has been missing for weeks. Dr. Lisa Boyers, forensic psychologist, receives a call from an old friend, a connection to her troubled past. Attorney Rudy Swaner wants her to interview the young killer, Paul Ducharme, who is claiming he doesn’t remember the events leading up to the murder.

In her jailhouse interviews, Lisa helps Paul to recover his memories. But Paul’s disturbing love story forces her to confront her own ugly, violent secrets. Lisa soon finds herself the focus of an over-zealous reporter and media hype that drags her unwilling into the spotlight and threatens to uncover secrets she’d rather not share.

My Two Cents:

I'm totally glad to have such a hope from the author. Since his debut novel; The Dead of Wynter, I knew the author is someone so promising with these kind of book genre.

Maybe the best part of his book is that they sound like a psycho books that will grab your attention real quickly with so many assumptions, doubts and feel like, " I knew it!". His style of writing does not differ much from The Dead of Wynter but I could tell that Lovesick consists like two parts of story. Either way, the book is still good. Psycho thrillers are the best because even though you like the story, you will at least felt that the book is violating your minds, but in a good way. You can't stop hating and loving the same the character at once! Other good part is that, reading the book also was like puzzling your mind to keep guessing what will happen next, and what's the ending would be. I think you can guess it right, it's very spot on, but tricky as well.

I have o complain for the book because I love it just the way he wrote it. You'll love it immensely once you start reading it too. I highly recommend it!

Disclaimer: I received this review copy from publicist Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc. for an exchange of a review. These are my honest review and receiving a copy in no way will ever reflected my review.