Welcome back to Books With Cause. Let’s dive into my next review. After revisiting the film during Cineworld’s Halloween season, I finally crossed American Psycho off my reading list — and I was surprised by just how much sharper, darker, and more satirical the book is than the movie ever hinted at. Patrick Bateman’s voice …
Month: November 2025
Welcome back to Books With Cause. Let’s dive into my latest review. Stephen King’s Bachman books have had quite the resurgence this year, especially with two big movie adaptations landing within months of each other. The Running Man is a brutal, relentless dystopian thriller originally released under King’s pseudonym, and it still hits astonishingly hard …
Welcome back to Books With Cause. Let’s dive into my latest review. Die, My Love is a brutal, surreal exploration of postpartum depression and the suffocation of domestic life. I picked this one up thanks to the recent film adaptation starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, and it turned out to be one of the …
Welcome back to Books With Cause. Let’s dive into my latest review. In this second part of my Jack the Ripper series, I review Naming Jack the Ripper — Russell Edwards’s 2015 investigation that leans heavily on modern DNA testing and confidently names Aaron Kosminski as the killer. How strong is his case, and does …
In this first part of a two-part Ripper special, I take a look at Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell — a book that made bold claims about the identity of Jack the Ripper. Two decades later, how convincing does the theory remain? This is a book that has been in my house for …
Welcome back to Books With Cause. Let’s dive into my latest review. A beautifully original YA story about identity, love, and what it means to truly see someone for who they are. My full review of Every Day by David Levithan — a heartwarming and thought-provoking read. The central character is an androgenous supernatural entity …