Tag Archives: thrillers

season of the witch — natasha mostert

3 stars

Gabriel is a data thief. Together with his friend he hacks com­put­ers, secu­rity sys­tems etc. to get the infor­ma­tion he needs for his mul­ti­ple employ­ers. He is happy with who he is and what he does. And then a cer­tain man named mr. Whit­ting­ton con­tacts him with a ques­tion: would Gabriel be inter­ested in find­ing his son, who dis­ap­peared some time ago. Gabriel is puz­zled why Whit­ting­ton should come to him, but after he learns his for­mer girl­friend Frankie is the wife of Whit­ting­ton, and there­for he knows some­thing about Gabriel, a secret abil­ity, that would be help­ful in this case, Gabriel reluc­tantly agrees to look into it. His path leads to two beau­ti­ful sis­ters with unknown pow­ers and that is the start of a very intrigu­ing and thrilling journey.

fahrenheit 451 — ray bradbury

5 stars

Guy Mon­tag is a fire­man; not a fire­man that extin­guishes fires, but one that ignites them. He lives in a time (some­where in the future) when hav­ing books is ille­gal. When the peo­ple who own them are found out, the fire brigade is being called to burn down the house together with the books. Guy is happy with his job until on one call a woman refuses to leave her books and burns together with them. On that occa­sion Guy grabs a book with him; there must be some­thing in books if peo­ple don’t want to leave them even when that means their death. From that moment on his entire life turns upside down and he has to make some dif­fi­cult choices and decisions.

the reunion — sue walker

3 stars

Seven highly intel­li­gent teenagers are being treated in a men­tal insti­tu­tion each for their own psy­cho­log­i­cal prob­lems. They are a group, some are friends, oth­ers are not. But they all have one thing in com­mon: their secret of what hap­pened in the night of Novem­ber 8th 1977.
Innes is the one that only after 27 years gets to know the hor­ri­ble truth of what exactly hap­pened on that day when the group was on a camp­ing trip.

rebecca — daphne du maurier

:lol: 5 stars

Rebecca is the first wife of Maxim de Win­ter. She lived at Man­der­ley. She is dead, but she is still around as the sec­ond wife can and will con­firm.
The story is told from the point of view of the sec­ond wife after all that has hap­pened; from the first day she met Max until the last day at Man­der­ley. That fact gives an extra dimen­sion to the story. Not only do we see what hap­pens, we see what hap­pens through the eyes of some­one who has already lived it and has knowl­edge of things and feel­ings she couldn’t have dur­ing the period of which she tells.