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Continue reading →: Angel Down Gets into the Trenches of War
Authored by Daniel Kraus; Published July 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angel Down may have a thoroughly fantastical premise, but it is historical fiction to its core. The subject matter is as down to earth as it can get. In the middle of World War I, the under-achieving Private Bagger is…
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Continue reading →: Heartless Hunter Will Make for a Good Sequel
Authored by Kristen Ciccarelli; Published 2024; Fantasy/Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Heartless Hunter has all the ingredients for an excellent romantasy novel, but to me, it just felt like a set-up to a far more intriguing sequel. In Heartless Hunter, Rune Winters leads a double life: brainless heiress-socialite by day, loyal…
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Continue reading →: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is Not the Love Story You’re Looking For
Authored by Kiran Desai; Published September 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny almost fooled me into thinking that it was a love story, but after six hundred pages, I came to the conclusion that romance, in its traditional form, is not the aim of this novel. The…
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Continue reading →: Fake Skating Addresses Actual Teen Issues
Authored by Lynn Painter; Published September 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ When I read a teen-oriented romance, my expectations are moderate at best. Fake Skating managed to meet those tempered expectations, with some cute moments and surprisingly serious topics that teens may actually have to deal with. In Fake Skating,…
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Continue reading →: Call for the Dead Brings Back Memories of the Cold War
Authored by John LeCarre; Published 1961; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I understand why John LeCarre’s George Smiley series is such a fixture among espionage thrillers. Call for the Dead has exactly the classic spycraft I expect to see from the Cold War era. In Call for the Dead, intelligence officer…
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Continue reading →: Buckeye Surprised Me
Authored by Patrick Ryan; Published September 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ At first glance, Buckeye does not seem like it’s going to be all that compelling a read. A story about two typical families in Ohio in the second half of the twentieth century? Yawn. But somehow, it drew me in.…
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Continue reading →: Beings Might Not Be the Science Fiction Novel You Are Looking For
Authored by Ilana Masad; Published September 2025; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I’m not at all sure I should classify Beings as science fiction. The focus on aliens is definitively secondary to the societal reaction to the supposed abductees and to American LGBTQ history in the second half of the…
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Continue reading →: Slightly Married Takes Fake Dating Back to the Victorian Era
Authored by Mary Balogh; Published 2003; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Slightly Married is basically just the Victorian-era version of a fake dating story. It turns out a rom-com trope is a rom-com trope, regardless of the setting. In Slightly Married, Eve is facing a devastating dilemma: Following the death of…
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Continue reading →: We Are All Guilty Here is Impossible to Put Down
Authored by Karin Slaughter; Published August 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ It has been such a long time since I read a thriller that I truly never wanted to put down. We Are All Guilty Here is that thriller. In We Are All Guilty Here, Emmy Lou and her father…
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Continue reading →: Maggie; Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Authored by Katie Yee; Published July 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you described Maggie; Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar to me, I would have told you that it is simply not my cup of tea–too depressing, and not nearly enough action. And I would have been…
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