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How to Kill Your Family Review By Sithmi They say you can't choose your family, but you can kill them... Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister, colleague, friend, serial killer... Grace has lost everything. And now she wants revenge. Grace is the product of a short fling between a rich millionaire and a French model. She's raised singlehandedly by her mother, not knowing of her father until her mother passes. When Grace Bernard learns how her rich father, who had his own family, had abandoned her pregnant mother and dismissed her pleas for aid on her final days, she swears on her mother's corpse to destroy her father's family, the Artemis clan. And so we travel with Grace in her first person POV, as she picks off one member at a time, building up the suspense until she gets to her final target, her father. But here's a twist. Grace is in jail. For a crime she supposedly did not commit. The story's chronological order is mixed with each murder she commits, and her...

  The Secret History Review By Sithmi Donna Tartt truly has a way with words. Like Richard says, “a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs” is what creates the imagery in this book. Everything, down to details of the fabric and colour of leaves is described in the utmost beautiful way. Its gorgeous and you can envision it all unravel in front of your eyes. Narrated by Richard Papen, we are introduced head-first into the cause of this story, a death of a friend. Quickly, we learn of our narrator’s past and his desire to enter the elite Greek class led by the illustrious professor Julian Morrow, and his elusively poised students, Henry Winter, Edmund (Bunny) Corcoran, Francis Abernathy and the twins, Charles and Camilla Macaulay. We are emerged in the story, going from his entry to the course to and induction of the students. We learn of their behaviours as 28 year old Richard tells us his story as he reminisces his otherworldly college experience. Tartt’s writing style ...

Gone Girl Review By Sithmi This was a twist in the tale. You have your usual story, the whodunits where the woman is missing/dead and the husband is the prime suspect. But guess what? There’s more to it darling. This well executed thriller with two POVs that had me wondering if this is where it ends in the last few chapters, because every line was a dangling hanger and I was quickly turning the pages to see if there was more. Amazing Amy, our female protagonist, has gone missing, and left behind in the married couple’s house and perfect set of clues, besides the couple’s usual anniversary scavenger hunt clues. The clues seem to indicate more than just a disappearance. It indicates a murder. Enter Nick, the husband and our male protagonist, who just walked back into a mess and has the unfortunate lack of facial expressions, because now he can’t he even show his shock and misery. Nor can he show the confusion of the clues left by his wife for their annual anniversary hunt. Gillia...