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Continue reading →: Husbands & Lovers is Compelling, if Disjointed
Authored by Beatriz Williams; Published June 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The style in which Husbands & Lovers is written is popular now: two intertwining narratives, set decades apart. But I’m not sure I’ve read a novel where the two narratives are quite so separate, even if they are…
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Continue reading →: This Strange Eventful History Exhibits the Sweep of Twentieth Century History
Authored by Claire Messud; Published May 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ What makes for a happy family? In This Strange Eventful History, a blissful marriage seems to turn into nothing but misery in just a generation—and it’s difficult to place the blame. This Strange Eventful History follows the Cassar…
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Continue reading →: The Women in the Castle Lends a New Perspective on National Regret
Authored by Jessica Shattuck; Published in 2017; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The Women in the Castle may be the first historical fiction novel I’ve read centered around privileged women in Germany during the Second World War and how they picked up the pieces after the war. It was not…
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Continue reading →: Margo’s Got Money Troubles is Uniquely Excellent
Authored by Rufi Thorpe; Published June 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I have never read a novel quite like Margo’s Got Money Troubles. It has a zany air, but at its heart is a heartfelt plea for empathy: for single mothers, for women who engage in sex-related professions, for humanity.…
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Continue reading →: Women and Children First is Not for the Faint of Heart
Authored by Alina Grabowski; Published May 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The heart of Women and Children First is the gritty realism of daily life in a town without many jobs and a serious drug problem. It’s not graphic, but neither is it for the faint of heart. In Women and Children…
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Continue reading →: The Blacktongue Thief is an Epic Fantasy Peppered with Humor
Authored by Christopher Buehlman; Published 2021; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Blacktongue Thief is in the vein of epic fantasy of Lord of the Rings: a band of heroes journeying together across the countryside on a quest. This is not my favorite type of fantasy, but Blacktongue had a few…
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Continue reading →: The Note is Nearly Impossible to Put Down
Authored by Alafair Burke; Published January 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Note is rooted in this very particular, very current, period of history: a post-pandemic setting, the heroine still struggling with the after-effects of COVID-19 along with the implications of being canceled. I’m not sure that its closeness to…
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Continue reading →: Rental House is a Nightmare of In-Laws
Authored by Weike Wang; Published December 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Are holidays the very bane of your existence? Do you live in perpetual dread of the week or two every year that you spend in the company of the pack of wolves that raised your partner? Do you want…
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Continue reading →: The Warsaw Orphan Displays Beauty Even in the Worst of Times
Authored by Kelly Rimmer; Published 2021; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Novels set during World War II can be emotionally exhausting, and The Warsaw Orphan is no exception. There is no escaping the horror that the inhabitants of Warsaw lived through, but I found the perspective of the narrators in…
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Continue reading →: The Magnificent Ruins is Beautiful… and Filled with Trauma
Authored by Nayantara Roy; Published November 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have gone no-contact with your parents, I cannot in good conscience recommend that you read this book. The Magnificent Ruins broke my heart in its stark recounting of generational trauma. Lila is shaken from her Brooklyn-based, very…
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