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Continue reading →: Once There Were Wolves Wants You to Understand Both Sides
Authored by Charlotte McConaghy; Published 2021; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Do wolves scare you? Or do you think they’ve been demonized for being what nature made them to be? You might think that Once There Were Wolves is about this question, but it’s just as much about humanity’s issues. Once…
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Continue reading →: Not in Love is All Spice
Authored by Ali Hazelwood; Published June 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Not in Love is the second novel by Ali Hazelwood that I have read, and really, I shouldn’t have been surprised by the spice level. Like Bride, it’s *very* spicy. In Not in Love, scientist Rue is working at…
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Continue reading →: The Three Lives of Cate Kay is Full of Passion
Authored by Kate Fagan; Published January 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Three Lives of Cate Kay was a delightful surprise for me. There was something so pure about the friendship at the heart of the book that I couldn’t help but love it. The Three Lives of Cate Kay…
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Continue reading →: The Nest Makes Me Want to Disavow Inheritances
Authored by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney; Published in 2016; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Nest is a glance into what happens when seemingly mature adults fail to get an inheritance to which they believe they are entitled. I can’t say it’s a happy read, even if it is enlightening on the topic of…
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Continue reading →: Same As It Ever Was is Not Big on the Suburban American Dream
Authored by Claire Lombardo; Published June 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ For all that the American dream is depicted as a suburban home with a white picket fence, it seems like there are plenty of women (plenty of fictional women?) who have not only eschewed this vision, but cringe at the thought.…
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Continue reading →: Good Dirt Spans American History
Authored by Charmaine Wilkerson; Published January 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Good Dirt was beautiful: the story of a special woman—or perhaps really about a special jar?—and how it was molded through decades, even centuries of American history. Good Dirt is the story of Ebony Freeman and her family,…
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Continue reading →: The Christmas Bookshop Allows You to Embrace Your Most Bookish Dreams
Authored by Jenny Colgan; Published 2011; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If ever I have read a book designed for book lovers, The Christmas Bookshop is it. Yes, it is technically a romance, but it feels more like a narrative cover to allow all of us to live vicariously through the…
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Continue reading →: City of Night Birds is Not Just About Ballet
Authored by Juhea Kim; Published November 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ City of Night Birds brought back stinging memories of brutal ballet rehearsals and merciless coaches. But the novel is about more than dance, about even more than art. In City of Night Birds, we follow the rise and fall…
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Continue reading →: Eleanor of Avignon is a Pandemic Hero
Authored by Elizabeth DeLozier; Published September 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The bravery of a person who feels called to heal in the midst of a pandemic is an inspiration—it was just as true in COVID-19 as it was in the Black Plague. Eleanor of Avignon is a depiction…
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Continue reading →: The Stars are Fire Features a Highly Capable Heroine
Authored by Anita Shreve; Published in 2017; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Yet another novel in which a woman is treated terribly by a man. The Stars are Fire shouldn’t be reduced to such a description—not with the woman in question being such a capable and independent protagonist—but I would…
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