After a slow reading month in February, I feel like I rebounded nicely in March -- falling back to one of my favorite genres -- thrillers and mystery -- with some really great books. 

Five Stars

Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a fun thriller with a completely deranged main character that I just could not put down. At the height of the covid housing crunch the main character is desperate to get out of her rental and find a real home so she and her husband can start a family. She's obsessed with one specific neighborhood and after losing out on countless houses has become a bit desperate. I love a book set in DC, so this one checked all the boxes for me.

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh man this book sucked me in so quickly and kept me engaged the whole time. What a winding twisty saga, while at the same time a little bit thriller-y. I liked the back and forth timelines jumping between the trial scenes and the lead up to the crime, and I was just so invested in what finding out what would happen.

Four Stars

The Wedding People by Alison Espach
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book wasn't the light and fluffy read that I expected, and I mean that in the best possible way. It's dark at the start, which I wouldn't have guessed from the cover, but quickly becomes a book about human connection and what makes a strong friendship or relationship. I enjoyed spending time with this cast of strange and quirky characters and by the end of the book I was rooting for all of them.

Heart the Lover by Lily King
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I liked this much better than Writers and Lovers and the ending really ripped my heart out. But I just want to know why the main character has such terrible taste in men? Like why did we spend two books with her terrible relationship choices? Needless to say, this felt less pretentious and I tore through it, and truly the ending, ugh it was heartbreaking.

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I liked this book, but I did struggle to remember a lot of the stuff from the first book that would have been helpful to remember here. So just a warning that before you pick up this book, you might want to refresh yourself on what happened in the first book. Despite all that, I still enjoyed this book and the wrinkles Hannah and Owen and Bailey face.

Three Stars

My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was good, but it felt a little similar to one of the other books of Alice Feeney's that I had read. When I started it I was like wait, have I read this already? The opening felt very similar. But the plot of the book was different, and I did enjoy the twisty turns even though parts did feel a little bit far fetched.

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