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Continue reading →: The Hallmarked Man is More Complicated Than It Needs to Be
Authored by Robert Galbraith; Published September 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I was warned, and it is worth repeating: The Hallmarked Man is long. As in, nine hundred pages, all of which are thinner than the norm to make the book feel more dense than thick. Frankly, dense is also…
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Continue reading →: El Dorado Drive Will Scare You Away from Pyramid Schemes
Authored by Megan Abbott; Published June 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I was not at all sold on El Dorado Drive for the first third of the novel—pyramid schemes have never been all that interesting to me, and they are at the heart of this novel. But the suspense and…
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Continue reading →: The Last Phi Hunter Stars a Classic Hero Saving His Princess
Authored by Salinee Goldenberg; Published 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Last Phi Hunter takes place in a rich world of magic and mythology, but at its heart is a classic tale of a street urchin falling for a princess and a hero slaying his monster nemesis. In The Last…
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Continue reading →: The Good Liar Brings Class Differences to the Forefront
Authored by Denise Mina; Published July 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Class structure in the UK comes with a lot of baggage—if that wasn’t clear to me before, it is glaringly obvious after reading The Good Liar. For once, I’m glad to be in America. In The Good Liar, Claudia…
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Continue reading →: Loved One Meditates on the Grief for One Lost Too Soon
Authored by Aisha Muharrar; Published August 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved One is a specific type of meditation on grief, capturing the confusion and messiness of mourning a person who was taken right in the midst of their life, like a sentence without a conclusion. It feels real rather than melodramatic,…
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Continue reading →: Vanishing Act Features a Unique Heroine
Authored by Thomas Perry; Published 1994; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Vanishing Act is over thirty years old, and in the internet age, it may seem like a relic of the past. But heroine Jane Whitefield’s ability to help people disappear retains its mystique, and I still enjoyed the ride it…
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Continue reading →: The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World Is Raw with Grief
Authored by J.R. Dawson; Published July 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World contains a great magnitude of grief in its story of a ferryman of souls and his adopted daughter. Even though the mythology behind it feels incomplete, its emotional weight is raw…
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Continue reading →: Bug Hollow Paints a Confusing Family Portrait
Authored by Michelle Huneven; Published June 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bug Hollow is less a cohesive narrative than several vignettes about a sprawling, confusing family, glued together in a less than linear fashion. This is not the novel to pick up for a point A to point B story. Bug Hollow…
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Continue reading →: The Kraken Wakes is the 1950s Version of an Alien Invasion
Authored by John Wyndham; Published 1953; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ My husband has chided me for never reading books more than a few years old—and The Kraken Wakes made me understand why this could be a problem. I loved hearing this 1950s rendering of a firsthand encounter with an…
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Continue reading →: Anywhere with You is an Advertisement for Van Life
Authored by Ellie Palmer; Published August 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Anywhere with You simultaneously charmed and infuriated me. It is a sweet story of two best friends who finally become lovers, but I couldn’t help but question if that transition is wise. Anywhere with You starts with Charlotte (Charley)…
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