Recs if you like Cross My Heart...

no matter what happens, there will be books with neon-text-on-a-dark-background covers and they will be thrillers.

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

sometimes the secrets buried under family relationships and everyday routines are unearthed and it goes poorly for everyone involved

I was falling OUT of love with thrillers until I found a niche that sang to my black millennial heart. These 5-star, adrenaline-inducing thrillers feel like they're written FOR women (usually by women). They enshrine or expose some aspect of the fem-experience and either champion or blatantly fail at modern feminism.

See also: homicidal inner voice, here to ruin his life, a bit of a b*tch, living for revenge.

Things I want to read in the new year