The wedding people by Alison Espach

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Published: July 3, 2025 by Phoenix

Lit fic/own

This one was boring on one hand, and interesting on the other hand. I am very conflicted. I was bored at time, but I also really wanted to know what would happen.

I also got really annoyed when Pheobe said that women read romance novels to get an orgasm. Ok FU Pheobe, that was uncalled for. Does the author think the same? That all romance novels are pRon?

Anyway, Phoebe was left by her husband and goes to a Hotel to kill herself. It seems there was a mistake and she shouldn't have gotten a room cos a wedding party has booked everything. Long story short, the bride shows up, Phoebe tells the truth. The bride says no! This is her wedding and Phoebe can not kill herself. Little by little Phoebe gets involved in the wedding and sees that everything is not as it should be.

So obviously I wanted to know if Phoebe would kill herself. Then I wanted to see what happened to the wedding. There was always something new to get invested in.

A good book, also a boring book in the beginning. But still a book where you want to know if she can be happy again.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, without luggage, alone. Everyone in the lobby mistakes her for one of the wedding people at an impending wedding on the site, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t there for the big event.

Phoebe is there because she’s dreamed of coming for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

The Fisherman by John Langan

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Published: October 9, 2023 by Canelo

Horror/borrowed

Abe starts fishing when he becomes a widower, then later on he meets Dan, who also lost his wife, and they start fishing together. Soon their fishing will take them to Dutchman´s creek.

I liked the beginning. Abe was really struggling with his grief and fishing saved him. He notices Dan is struggling too and fishing becomes the calm in a storm.

But then it got really boring. They meet this guy at a restaurant and he tells the story of The Dutchman´s creek, and how dangerous it is. And I was like ok some chapters and it is over but it was 200 pages! Luckily after some time it got better. It told the story of a stonemason and his family and then things become darker and darker. And then I was hooked again. It got crazy.

After that we are back at Abe, and he really should not have gone to that creek with Dan. It gets dark again, and that end, damn. I liked that

Yes I did like this horror story, it is more Lovecraftian in its horror.

In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.

When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.

It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Published: August 30, 2022 by Berkley

Paranormal/borrowed

So this is listed as a horror. Someone called it pink horror. But yeah there is no horror, it is more a supernatural story.

Annie decides to make a new life as her boyfriend leaves her. This takes her to a teaching job in a small town. There she meets a Fabolous woman! Everyone loves this woman....or do they?

Her and Sophie becomes great friends. Sophie in her big empty house. Spiders. Strange things happening.

But this was about Sophie finding herself and being happy what she finds.

I liked it. It was another easy fun read

All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She’s stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation.  

 

Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That’s how Sophie lives. Annie can’t help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the townsfolk seem…a little afraid of her. And like, okay. There are some things. Sophie’s appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power…but she couldn’t be…could she?

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