Welcome to Litsy!

It‘s not great literature or anything, but a good page turner about a couple spending a week in a remote cabin in the woods to try to save their marriage. Secrets come out slowly, and the story builds to its necessary conclusion. You could save it for the summer and have a good beach read!

#BookReport 26/23

A good week! I adored Anthony, and enjoyed Yellowface and The Trees Grew. The tagged one however, I hated. Don‘t waste your time on it!

I am sorry Meg, but I am with Cindy on this one 🤷🏻‍♀️

The premise was good and I enjoyed The Blinds so I was looking forward to a new Sternbergh. But I found the plot non-plausible and unbelievable and the characters to me felt flat and stereotype. I did want to finish it, to see where it went with this couple doing a week long kind of challenge in a cabin in the woods of upstate NY to test their marriage, but I finished it rolling my eyes.

#UnpopularOpinion Somewhere between a so-so and a pan this book was MAJORLY DISAPPOINTING! I read & loved The Blinds and was sort of expecting another book on that level but this book felt amateurish and obvious. Nothing here really shocked or surprised me. And the premise of The Eden Test had potential but the author took the cheesy route instead of a more clever approach. Oh well! And I don‘t get the cover image- at all!?? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Strernbergh is really good at those mindf*ck plot twists, and while this wasn‘t a crazy as The Blinds, I appreciated the intimacy and tenderness he created between these characters. He masterfully manipulated who I rooted for and sympathized with as the book went on.

Daisy has set up a weeklong retreat with her husband where they must answer and discuss a question each day. Sounds simple enough, but the retreat exposes many new feelings…and lies.

Started yesterday and already half way through. Loved Adam Sternberg's Spademan books "Shovel Ready" and "Near Enemy" which are sci fi, and "The Blinds" which is a contemporary speculative Western. "The Eden Test" one is a mystery/thriller and I am liking it.

#TreatYoShelf #ImpulseBuy #BookMail #CoverCrush #BluesAndGreens I think that sums it all up 💙💚

This book is effed up!! It has some serious Gone Girl vibes.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo list for June, with a couple open bonus spots for some mood reading. I‘ve been going pretty hard with the monthly goals and themes this year to hit specific stats and help lower my unread owned TBR, but I think I‘m going to remove the barriers in June and just read WHATEVER I want. 😂

I have been thinking about this book for a while since I saw it on Libby and finally, I said forget the mixed reviews on Amazon and Goodreads and give it a try. Well, I've been entrenched in the story all last night and today. I've done nothing else 🙃 Right now, I'm on day five of the week-long anniversary trip and I'm riveted to my seat waiting to see what happens next! Excited to update with a review! It's been a busy book week for me!

Daisy and Craig are two profoundly screwed up people. They are approaching their 2 year wedding anniversary and they both know something has to change. Daisy has an anniversary surprise of biblical proportions in store for him at an isolated cabin retreat designed for couples at a crossroad in their relationship. There are many twists and turns that lead to some high stakes decisions if they decide their marriage is worth saving. ⬇️

This #DomesticThriller takes place at a private retreat for married couples with an overtly Old Testament theme- called The Eden Test, over the course of 7 days, couples are given 7 questions to discuss. Daisy & Craig may not always be particularly likable, but as the story unfolds, it‘s hard to tear away from! Readers will enjoy discussing this one, even when the final twists turn this into something more unbelievable but no less entertaining!