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Continue reading →: And So I Roar is Inspiring and Tear-Inspiring
Authored by Abi Daré; Published August 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ And So I Roar made me feel the whole spectrum of emotions. One moment I was laughing, the next crying, the next stirred with inspiration to do something, anything, to change the world. That’s one of the things that…
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Continue reading →: With Prejudice is a Little Too Gritty for Me
Authored by Robin Peguero; Published 2022; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I am not one for gritty, realistic crime dramas–a realization that I came to somewhere in the middle of this novel. While undoubtedly suspenseful, With Prejudice acknowledged the slow-paced reality of court cases today and the key unorthodox players that…
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Continue reading →: The Unmothers is Tense Horror
Authored by Leslie Anderson; Published August 2024; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Is horror one of my favorite genres now? After decades of not watching a single horror film, just a few books have brought me closer to accepting this type of novel. The Unmothers is one of them. The Unmothers…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful Villain Borders on Fan Fiction
Authored by Rebecca Kennedy; Published July 2024; Fantasy, Romance ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I haven’t read a romantasy novel before that came off quite so much as fan fiction as this one—even Twilight. But, the best way I can describe Beautiful Villain is as The Great Gatsby fan fiction. Beautiful Villain…
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Continue reading →: Set On You is Romance with a Side of Body Positivity
Authored by Amy Lea; Published 2022; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There’s a certain charm to niche romance novels. Farmers falling in love at first sight? I’m sure it’s adorable. Ice skating rivals turned lovers? Swoon. I happened to come upon Set On You, a rom com with strong gym rat…
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Continue reading →: Six Days in Bombay is a Dreamy European Vacation
Authored by Alka Joshi; Published March 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There is something dreamy about the idea of discovering oneself in a weeks-long journey through the famous old cities of Europe. But, it’s not necessarily something I would expect for an Indian-English nurse in the 1930s—yet this is…
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Continue reading →: This Book Will Bury Me is a Warning for True Crime Buffs
Authored by Ashley Winstead; Published March 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ This Book Will Bury Me came off as a dramatic, even death-bed-level confession. Listening to it as an audio book was the perfect vehicle to ingest the narrator’s vulnerable but passionate explanations of how she had gotten to where…
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Continue reading →: Two Nights in Lisbon Will Make You Feel the Tension
Authored by Chris Pavone; Published 2022; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I devoured Two Nights in Lisbon in barely more than a day. As the story unfolded, I found my shoulders rising closer and closer to my ears. The heroine’s anxiety became my anxiety, and I couldn’t help but think: what…
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Continue reading →: Crush is More Traditional Than It Seems
Authored by Adele Calhoun; Published February 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ For a novel centered on polyamory, Crush was a little more traditional than I expected. In fact, it defied many of my expectations and managed to deliver a reasonably happy love story. In Crush, the narrator is a successful…
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Continue reading →: Teddy Features a Controversial Heroine
Authored by Emily Dunlay; Published July 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ From start to finish, I was torn about the titular character of Teddy. I have rarely read a novel featuring a woman whom I so often rolled my eyes at and yet with whom I sympathized. Teddy is…
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