Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three came via Insta.

Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester

Summary: Kate and her husband Jack are thirty years into their seemingly idyllic London life. They befriend screenwriter Phoebe and her charming loafer of a partner, Tony. But when Phoebe’s steamy television series, Cheating, becomes the year’s most talked-about show, Kate thinks she sees in it details of her marriage that only she and her husband could possibly have known. Who has betrayed whom?

I’m thinking: Yes.

Don’t Stop by Bonnie Friedman

Summary: Ina is a 41-year-old literary scholar on the cusp of professional success. With a coveted university job, a kind husband, and a book about to be published, her life appears enviably stable. But an impulsive kiss with a stranger shatters her self-control. She tells herself it’s research—a brief detour before returning to real life but what begins as a flirtation becomes a reckoning with everything Ina thought she wanted.

I’m thinking: No.

The Scoop by Erin van der Meer

Summary: Frankie is getting desperate. Since losing her dream job at a glossy magazine, her days have been filled with overdue bills and a flood of rejection emails. So when she’s offered a job at The Scoop, a notorious tabloid website, she can’t exactly afford to say no, even if it means swallowing her pride for clicks. But the deeper she’s pulled into the breakneck world of tabloid journalism, the blurrier the line between ambition and morality becomes – until she crosses it.

I’m thinking: No.