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Continue reading →: A Thin Dark Line Depicts Unfortunately Ordinary Harassment
Authored by Tami Hoag; Published 1997; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ A Thin Dark Line was published almost thirty years ago—-and it reads like it. Still, the mystery is an engaging one, if you can stomach the extent of the heroine’s harassment. In A Thin Dark Line, the small town of…
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Continue reading →: Sheepdogs Makes Spy Thrillers Zany
Authored by Elliot Ackerman; Published August 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you take a classic spy thriller, transport it to this year, and add a dose of weirdness, Sheepdogs will be the result. As zany as it is, it also feels surprisingly true to life. In Sheepdogs, Skwerl, a…
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Continue reading →: A Mastery of Monsters Presents a Fascinating, if Complex, World
Authored by Liselle Sambury; Published July 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have read and loved many YA fantasy novels, frequently questioning if their audience need be limited to young adults. While A Mastery of Monsters holds some promise, it does not quite reach those heights. In A Mastery of…
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Continue reading →: Rachel’s Holiday is Far More Serious Than I Predicted
Authored by Marian Keyes; Published 1997; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Watermelon, the first novel in Marian Keyes’s series on the Walsh family, is a fun, romantic jaunt. I expected more of the same from Rachel’s Holiday, and I could not have been more wrong. Rachel’s life in New York is glamorous and…
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Continue reading →: The Unraveling of Julia is Quite a Jumble
Authored by Lisa Scottoline; Published July 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Unraveling of Julia can’t seem to decide what kind of novel it wants to be. Part flirtation with the supernatural, part murder mystery, part white-collar scheming, there is just too much jumbled into this novel. In The Unraveling…
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Continue reading →: The Compound Shows a Dark Reality TV Future
Authored by Aisling Rawle; Published June 2025; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If you have ever turned on prime time television and thought, “Wow, society has really gone down the tubes,” The Compound will not help you change your opinion. Its depiction of reality TV is just disturbing enough—and just…
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Continue reading →: Dead Until Dark is Among the Forerunners of Vampire Romantasy
Authored by Charlaine Harris; Published 2001; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Dead Until Dark is a novel ahead of its time—a steamy romantasy featuring a hot vampire and other supernatural creatures. But, as prophetic as it may have been of the current fad, I wouldn’t say that it’s my favorite of…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Let Him In Features an Absolutely Psychotic Villain
Authored by Lisa Jewell; Published June 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Don’t Let Him In is the kind of thriller that draws you in with the sheer audacity of the villain. There’s no whodunit, no question about what crimes have been committed—just a true psychopath, blazing his way through a…
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Continue reading →: Sounds Like Love Brings You Back to the Boardwalk
Authored by Ashley Poston; Published June 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Are you missing summer? The beaches, the boardwalks, the sandy toes? If you want to relive the idyllic, hot days of July and August, Sounds Like Love may fit the bill. In Sounds Like Love, songwriter Joni has hit…
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Continue reading →: Time and Again Gets to the Heart of the Time Travel Problem
Authored by Jack Finney; Published 1970; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The more classic science fiction I read, the more enthralled by it I become. There is something to its simplicity, to not letting too many gadgets and gizmos get in the way, that adds to its appeal. Time and…
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