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Continue reading →: Meet Me at the Crossroads Juxtaposes Real Grief with a Fantastical Premise
Authored by Megan Giddings; Published June 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Meet Me at the Crossroads juxtaposes a fantastical premise with down-to-earth loss in a way that makes the novel impossible to put down. I just had to know just how the heroine would choose to come to terms with…
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Continue reading →: Presumed Innocent Shows Just How Much Strategy Goes Into Trials
Authored by Scott Turow; Published 1987; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Crime thrillers generally feature an intense search for the perpetrator of whatever horrific deed serves as the centerpiece of the plot, but not Presumed Innocent. For this novel, all of the drama comes from the trial, and the strategies that…
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Continue reading →: Park Avenue Showcases a Luxurious, if Contentious, Lifestyle
Authored by Renee Ahdieh; Published June 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Like many novels featuring the obscenely rich, Park Avenue has an ample share of fabulous vacation locales and little luxuries that make life easy. I only wish that it contained as many characters that I want to root for. …
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Continue reading →: Far and Away is for Fans of The Holiday
Authored by Amy Poeppel; Published June 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Was there ever an era in which house swapping was a common thing? It feels very out of vogue in the era of AirBnBs, but Far and Away certainly makes the concept seem appealing. In Far and Away, Lucy…
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Continue reading →: Come Shell or High Water is Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
Authored by Molly MacRae; Published 2024; Mystery ⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I am borderline obsessive about my reading and finishing the novels I start, and I hold on to a book for far longer than I should in attempt to fulfill my completionist tendencies. So, when I say I couldn’t finish…
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Continue reading →: The Tenant Follows the Cherished McFadden Formula
Authored by Frieda McFadden; Published May 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ After reading two Frieda McFadden novels, I think I pretty much have the formula down. The Tenant is exactly what you expect from her novels, for better or worse. In The Tenant, Blake’s life has veered completely off course.…
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Continue reading →: Son of Nobody Makes Me Want to Revisit The Odyssey
Authored by Yann Martel; Published March 2026; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ If The Odyssey were more like Son of Nobody, perhaps I would have gotten into the Homeric epics. It has humor and heartbreak, and it beautifully depicts how humanity is the same regardless of the era. In Son…
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Continue reading →: That Fine Line is as Predictable as a Hallmark Movie
Authored by Cindy Steel; Published 2022; Romance ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you like your romances Hallmark-style and completely predictable, you might enjoy That Fine Line. It’s exactly what you would expect from the story of a farm girl who comes home from her big city life the summer before her…
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Continue reading →: The Director is Haunting
Authored by Daniel Kehlmann; Published May 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s a specific type of haunting air to the novels featuring World War II collaborationists. It’s never quite as straightforward as it seems to be, and it’s always tragic—and that is the case with The Director. In The Director, G.…
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Continue reading →: Katabasis Gives Me Nightmares About Academia
Authored by R.F. Kuang; Published August 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Although Katabasis is a love story of sorts set in a fantasy world, it’s just about the furthest thing from a romantasy novel. There’s far too many logic puzzles and musings on existential philosophy—but that doesn’t mean it’s not…
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