Hello! I have had a very good reading strike in the past weeks, where all of the books I read were very good (Penance by Eliza Clark, Immaculate conception by Ling Ling Huang, Final girls by Riley Sager, The last flight by Julie Clark). I would like to find something similar in style that captures my attention. I enjoy thriller, crime, horror, dark, or just the plain weird. I like things that happen in the real world as I find them more interesting so I'm not a huge fan of fantasy/sci-fi (but paranormal and such is fine, it just has to be grounded in the real world and not in an external one). I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction. My favorite authors are currently Mieko Kawakami and Mona Awad.
I have read a lot of the internet popular books so feel free to recommend anything, especially hidden gems 🙂 I also don't mind being scared/creeped out, I actually enjoy that in a book lol I'd like something written by a woman because sometimes I get annoyed by female povs written by males (that was my main issue with Final girls for example).
Thanks so much!
by melinda_r
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I recommended one on a different post earlier today, actually.
*Serial Killer Support Group* – Saratoga Schaefer
It’s a pretty weird concept, but the author lands it well.
Tender is the flesh
Female author, MC is male though
Karen Rose is my favorite author, and I think pretty much fits your criteria excluding horror. The villains are dark (serial killers, sex traffickers, child rapists), and the pair of primary characters have their own issues that are mostly exposed in the romance arc. They’re split by city, which are more connected and have some through lines, but characters move occasionally and you’ll see characters in more than one city.