Square^3 - Mira Grant

Title: Square^3
Author: Mira Grant
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook ~3.5 hrs
Date read: January 2022

When the great incursion occurred, no one was prepared. How could they have been? Of all the things physicists had predicted, “the fabric of reality might rip open and giant monsters could come pouring through” had not made the list. But somehow, on a fine morning in May, that was precisely what happened.

For sisters Susan and Katharine Black, the day of the incursion was the day they lost everything. Their home, their parents, their sense of normalcy…and each other, because when the rift opened, Susan was on one side and Katharine was on the other, and each sister was stranded in a separate form of reality. For Susan, it was science and study and the struggle to solve the mystery of the altered physics inside the zones transformed by the incursion. For Katharine, it was monsters and mayhem and the fight to stay alive in a world unlike the world of her birth.

The world has changed. The laws of physics have changed. The girls have changed. And the one universal truth of all states of changed matter is that nothing can be completely restored to what it was originally, no matter how much you might wish it could be.

Nothing goes back


I hadn't realized how short this book was when I bought it, but I trust Mira Grant's writing, and know she can pack a lot of plot into even a very short book (I'm looking at you, "Kingdom of Needle and Bone"), so figured I'd give it a chance regardless.

Fortunately it lived up to my expectations. The action started straight away, and moved at a swift pace until the very end. I would have liked it to be just a tad longer, to allow for more resolution at the end, but I was fascinated by the events of the book, and if I wanted more - well, that's just Mira Grant for you.

I Know What You've Done - Dorothy Koomson

Title: I Know What You've Done
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 376
Date read: January, 2023

Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of?

Bestselling author of All My Lies Are True, Dorothy Koomson, asks how well you can really know your neighbors. Fans of Lisa Jewell and Louise Candlish will rip through the pages of this addictive new thriller.

What if all your neighbors' secrets landed in a diary on your doorstep?

What if the woman who gave it to you was murdered by one of the people in the diary?

What if the police asked if you knew anything?

Would you hand over the book of secrets?

Or ... would you try to find out what everyone had done?


Utterly impossible to put down. Every page just added more questions to the mix, and as the chapters were very short, I would constantly read "just one more chapter", to see if perhaps SOME of the questions were answered. This book takes unreliable narrator to the max, and while that does sometimes annoy me, here it really worked to keep me guessing.

I have no clue how it'll work as a reread though, as part of its charm is definitely that you have NO clue what's going on until the very end. There were several reveals along the way, and I'd guessed all of one of them (and guessed two others very wrong).

Not high literature - but extremely readable. 4 stars for unputdownableness, 3 stars for the plot itself, so I've split the difference.