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Kalorama Road Kindle Edition

by E. Denise Billups (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Her memories died, but the dead won't let them sleep.

There's something Allie can't remember; hidden memories that refuse to surface.

Haunted by elusive fragments of a forgotten night, Allie's world is upended when a cryptic email thrusts her back into the shadows of her past. Graduating from Emsworth University should have marked a fresh start. But as forgotten memories resurface, Allie must confront the darkness lurking within her amnesiac mind.

As she unravels the secrets of 1414 Kalorama Road, Allie discovers truths she never dared to imagine. But with each revelation comes a chilling realization: someone is watching, waiting for the truth to emerge.

What really happened at 1414 Kalorama Road?

Praise for Kalorama Road:

★★★★★ "Billups masterfully weaves suspense reminiscent of Hitchcock, keeping readers on the edge of their seats."

★★★★★ "With seductive prose and addictive storytelling, this is a journey you won't want to end."

★★★★★ "Immersive and captivating, '1414 Kalorama Road' is a must-read for fans of psychological thrillers."

★★★★★ - "Billups keeps cranking up the tension with skillful storytelling reminiscent of a chilling Alfred Hitchcock movie."

★★★★★ - "Seductive, hypnotic and addictive writing."

★★★★★ - "I found myself completely immersed in this well thought-out, captivating story."

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Jennie Rosenblum
"This was a book that presents as one thing and then grips you with another angle snuck in and very well done ... This suspenseful book, with nice surprises along the way, is a thriller I enjoyed as I felt the increase of my heartbeat. All the twists and turns can be unexpected but delightfully done." jenniereads.com/2018/06/19/kalorama-road-by-e-denise-billups/

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John Daryl Winston, Author of IA: B.O.S.S.

"E. Denise Billups prose is about as elegant as it gets. And not elegance for the sake of elegance but a meaningful elegance that drives the narrative. Billups masterfully executes multiple POV's that create suspense and rising tension in a way that's hard to measure except to say that it never lets up...Billups blends dialogue, action, and description so well it makes the narrative fluid, and there's an ache that goes along with experiencing this story that cries out to be manifested on the big screen. Five massive stars for Kalorama Road."

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079J5YFYJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Next Chapter (January 31, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 31, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2535 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1977088163

Best Sellers Rank: #1,473,205 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,126 in Women's Psychological Fiction
- #7,143 in Psychological Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #10,770 in Serial Killer Thrillers

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E. Denise Billups was born in Monroeville, Alabama, and raised in New York City, where she currently resides. She’s a former Financial Analyst turned writer. A multi-genre fiction author, she’s published six novels and several supernatural short stories. A skilled artist, she trained as a dancer (ballet, modern, and jazz dance) in her younger years and dabbled in writing, which she would not pursue until much later.

As an avid reader of many genres, she was greatly influenced by magical realism, mystery, suspense, and supernatural novels. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s running miles in the park, finding her inner calm with yoga, experimenting with vegan dishes, and enjoying time with family and friends.

Presently, she is working on book two of her trilogy, Twilight Ends, a paranormal historical fiction, and book three of the Simone Doucet Series.

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Leah P. Lozano

A Five-star Page Turner I Highly Recommend! I loved this book and the characters

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2018

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A Five-star Page Turner I Highly Recommend!

I loved this book and the characters! I found myself completely immersed in this well thought out, captivating story. From the very beginning, you feel it—an ominous curiosity, the unknown weighing in on you. A feeling you know the truly likable Allie caries with her every single day. All because of one tragic night.

A cautionary feeling ignored, a bad decision made, a night that goes horribly wrong, and then … Forgotten.

Blocked, but lingering on the fringes of consciousness, it haunts Allie. What unspeakable horrors happened at 1414 Kalorama Road? Whether Allie wants to or not, someone is pushing her to remember. Thus the questions begin. Who wants her to remember? Why? What do they want? What do they know? Whom do you trust when you can’t remember a thing? Are they watching you now?

The hints, the oddities, the scent on the air … the chills. Those icy chills will run down your spine.

As the story cleverly unfolds, two intriguing men enter Allie’s life—a gorgeous man through work, and a provocative conversationalist on the internet. Both intrigue her beyond initial interest, yet she cannot say why. As their interactions increase so do the escalating events that whisper, stir and shake both her memory and the very foundations of her world.

As you read, you’ll find yourself questioning everything and everyone. You’ll be on the edge of your seat with anticipation, fervently flipping the pages to learn what Allie discovers piece by brilliant piece. What a magnificent read! Author E. Denise Billups—for the love of all things literary—write fast, you’re fans need you!

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Benyakir Horowitz

An intriguing mystery

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2018

The short: The story is unconventional in some ways and good for that. I enjoyed it and recommend it as long as you go in with an open mind.

The long: This book is about women and written by a woman, so I believe that there are some things I won’t understand or perceive, but I promise to try my best.

Okay, the review. I have a double standard when it comes to judging a book. If it’s traditionally published, it means that the writer had some advantages, and their work must conform to certain plot structures. An indie book has much more freedom (and less mainstream appeal because it forgoes certain conventions) and less editing. The way I see it, getting angry at an indie book for not being a trad book is like telling someone to cook whatever they feel like and getting angry that they don’t make a restaurant-quality risotto.

I believe that the book needs some more editing and correction of typos, but that isn’t such a big deal here. I was looking for unique ideas and expressions, and given my rating, I was satisfied.

The first of the indie qualities is the change in narrators. There is no explanation on who’s the voice of each chapter. It can be confusing at the beginning, but I picked up very quickly because each of the characters gets fleshed out. The traditional advice is to basically not do this, but I think it comes in handy here. It lets the author express some views that would be quite onerous in dialogue or in other characters’ mind. This isn’t executed perfectly, but it’s good.

Okay, the plot of the book. It starts with Allison and a mysterious night at the titular Kalorama Road that she subsequently forgot. Then it fast-forwards to her a few years later, settled and working at an editor. I find this a bit annoying because it reminds me of Fellini’s 8 1/2, but it kinda works because it’s one of the central themes of the book. Over the course of a book, Allison figures out what happened and resolves an unsolved crime.

The book uses a little bit of magic realism. Almost everything is resolved logically (if not a little bit implausibly), and the seemingly inexplicable coincidences of the beginning are resolved. However, there are supernatural elements, and they serve a specific role.

This leads me to the theme of the book, where I’ll hopefully get all the threads of my review together. The main ones seem to be female sexuality and identity, though the former could be a part of the latter (or the other way around). Male control over female sexuality is the source of the antagonist’s power, and it is resolved when the protagonist gets control over her life, recovering the missing portion of her soul.

To further explore this, we can look at all the female characters in the novel. There’s the protagonist who, as the voice of the author and reader, seems unsure of herself and very self-conscious. It might correspond with her memory loss, but that might all be part of a larger message about being young and suffering from a traumatic experience that reminds the reader of date rape. The next character I want to talk about is Nikki, the sister of Allison. She is a lawyer and seems preoccupied with her job but ends up pregnant. Her character arc revolves around this. There is also Lisa, the dear college friend and former roommate of Allison. Her goals seemed to be work and her passions, until she gave that all up to join her husband on joining in running a restaurant. There are two characters whose personalities are mostly explored in the brief second section of the book, Belle and Penelope, and there’s another reason I group them together, but I’m not going to reveal that for now. Though we don’t get the full picture until later, Belle’s disappearance is at the center of the story, so we have to ask what about her character is different from the other women of the story. She had become corrupted by a betrayal from her parents (not going to expand on this because of spoilers) and spends her time engaging in something sordid. Her association with this is what may have caused her problems. Penelope is a demure friend of Belle and the one who primarily begins Allison’s path to recovery.

In the last section of my review, I will be giving out some spoilers. Caveat emptor! Stay away if you don’t want to have some plot points revealed.

So, what is the message of this book? In the two days since I finished the book, that’s what I’ve been asking. It would be easy to say that the author has a conservative stance on women, that they need to act in a traditional manner. Allison talks about her virginity after her episode at Kalorama Road, her refusal of relationships, Nikki deciding not to get an abortion, the seeming punishment of Belle for being more comfortable with having sex or engaging in a relationship with an older man, and Lisa’s happiness when she leaves her life behind for a man. However, I believe that isn’t the point and only a superficial treatment of the book. There’s a lot of detail given to how Allison dresses and Nikki’s refusal of an abortion. Kalorama Road isn’t about highlighting the ‘correct’ way women should act. It’s about women having control over their lives. Allison comes to peace when she’s no longer under the thumb of powerful men, Nikki makes her decisions because of what she wants and not what her boyfriend wants (though they are the same thing), Lisa is sure in her choices and is deliberate in opening a restaurant with her husband (though I will caution the fictional character that while enjoying cooking is lovely, running a restaurant is incredibly hard—I watch a lot of Kitchen Nightmares), and Belle and Penelope are the victim of men. The story doesn’t caution against a woman exploring her sexuality but rather exploring it at the hand and exploitation of men. Belle’s death is because of a woman following her husband and blaming Belle instead of him for being unfaithful. Penelope’s likely murder is because men didn’t want the truth getting out. To state it more clearly, I think it can seem a simple story, but Kalorama Road has layers of meaning and a message about female empowerment that get use out of being an indie book.

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Debb White

Good Book!

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019

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Although the story confused me in the very beginning of the story, the the rest was colourful and inspired. Will look at another of her books for sure.

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yop

A gripping read!

Reviewed in Spain on April 17, 2023

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When Allie was at University, she went to a party. She can remember arriving, and sitting at a bar, but very little else. The next day, she discovered that a classmate had disappeared.

A year after graduating, she receives an email with one single sentence: What happened at 1414 Kalorama Road?”

Someone wants her to remember, and, due to added stress at work and in her private life, forgotten memories slowly begin to emerge.

The suspense in this book is palpable. The reader discovers what happened that night piece by piece through a web of lies woven into unexpected twists and turns in a well-written storyline.

The supernatural essence worked well too and added even more depth to the storyline, as did the mysterious online personas.

The characters were believable, and I felt attached to them, worried about them, and wanted Allie in particular to find her happy ending.

I love this book. Read it. You won’t be disappointed.

Isobel Blackthorn

A gem of a tale!

Reviewed in Australia on May 4, 2019

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Kalorama Road is a thrilling tale of a young acquisitions editor, Allison, who cannot recall the events of a party she attended two years before, when she was drugged into a comatose state. Allison loses her job due to a publisher takeover just as a fresh manuscript arrives on her desk and she is eager to publish. She has no idea the author, Ryan Mc Thursten, is an old flame of sorts. Then there is Allison's younger sister, Nicky, and the typical sibling tensions between them add a note of realism and familiarity.

Set in New York and written in prose that is both eloquent and taut, Kalorama Road is a highly engaging page turner told from multiple viewpoints, with excellent pacing and character development. The intrigue builds and builds as more characters are introduced. Allison suffers flashback memories she struggles to make sense of. Add in the paranormal theme and the strange messages Allison receives by email from someone wanting her to remember the events of that fateful night of the party and the result is a perfect concoction. Billups has penned a gem of a story in Kalorama Road.

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