#ashley winstead

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2025:

“in my dreams i hold a knife”

ashley winstead

“sometimes, you really didn’t have to lift a finger to get exactly what you wanted. sometimes, all you had to do was sit back and do nothing.”

[bruiselikeviolets]

read in 2024: in my dreams i hold a knife by ashley winstead

A woman who wanted was an ugly thing. I knew it made me childish and vulnerable. My whole life had taught me that lesson. But still. For one moment, laid out on the grass, all my ruined, pointless, pent-up wanting was too great to contain.

[razreads]

So many things have been unbearable this past year, and yet here I am, alive and bearing them.

Ashley Winstead, The Future Saints

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books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 33

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

"All those people who go there to gawk. It's like the worst thing that ever happened to us is their entertainment."

[the-final-sentence]

Remember him, record him in the annals, and let us both rest in peace.

Ashley Winstead, from This Book Will Bury Me

[beaquote]

There would never be another antagonist more insidious than her own mind.

– The Last Housewife, Ashley Winstead (2022)

[bookaddict24-7]

RECO OF THE WEEK!

In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead

Synopsis:

"Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.

A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.

Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down."

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Happy reading!

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The Future Saints: A Novel

By Ashley Winstead.