Books and Beyond

“I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Gregg Hurwitz, Hellbent Evan Smoak returns once more, and this time, he's deadly serious about seeking blood. It felt so good to read another Smoak book after so long. Hurwitz has outdone himself this time with such an amazing thriller. Starting off with a major death, this book sets itself up for success. Since this is the third book in the pentalogy, you'd expect some closure and a new threat, but NOOOOO. Instead, we're left in the dust with someone more powerful than the original villain to fight Evan, Evan's father figure dead, a new character who brings so much more into this already amazing book and even more suspense. Some relationships grow, while others turn sour, but at the end, Evan is at a better place, even though he hasn't realized it yet. Sure, he might be even more bloodthirsty than before, but it is only after losing someon...

About the main Character Nina ... a woman who has it all. A woman who has been able to leave her painful and needy past behind, where struggling for basic necessities was just a part of life. A woman who has a loving husband, Finn, who has given her everything and anything and who now lives in a house, thats no less than a mansion in an upper class locality. A woman who has two beautiful children, Declan and Connor, studying in the most expensive premier school/college - where all those who matter in upper class society, send their offsprings to. In a typical story that reads like from rags to riches, Nina is completely busy and immersed with her family and doesn't need anyone beyond it. Her relationship with her only living sibling, Tiggy, is also strained and one that she doesn't care much about - because of their differences and the fact that her sister still lives in the same rundown area where she grew up and one that she has left behind. The Plot  As they s...