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Continue reading →: Little Secrets is Not for Readers with Children
Authored by Jennifer Hillier; Published 2020; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Little Secrets is halfway between a beach read thriller and a tell-all exposé of what it’s like to have a missing child. It didn’t precisely keep me at the edge of my seat—but it definitely had me by the throat.…
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Continue reading →: The Treasure Hunters Club is a Campy Delight
Authored by Tom Ryan; Published October 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I’ve never read a book that embodies the adjective ‘campy’ as much as The Treasure Hunters Club. It is a callback to a simpler type of mystery: a treasure hunt gone horribly wrong. The Treasure Hunters Club follows Peter,…
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Continue reading →: And He Shall Appear
Authored by Kate van der Borgh; Published October 2024; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I enjoyed And He Shall Appear barring one major flaw: It was remarkably similar to A Separate Peace, the most annoying novel of my high school days. Between the pretentious schooling and the inauspicious ending, it was…
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Continue reading →: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is About Freedom
Authored by V.E. Schwab; Published in 2020; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ What does it mean to be completely, totally free? That is the question sitting at the heart of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue—an extended meditation on if a legacy requires giving up even just a little bit of…
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Continue reading →: The Stone Witch of Florence
Authored by Anna Rasche; Published October 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ For a book set during the black plague, The Stone Witch of Florence is quite a lot of fun. It may be dark humor, but humor certainly abounds. The Stone Witch of Florence follows Ginevra, a poor young woman…
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Continue reading →: The Life Impossible
Authored by Matt Haig; Published September 2024; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you are feeling disenchanted by life, run down bu daily inconveniences and tragedy, I must recommend The Life Impossible to you. It’s a bighearted novel about experiencing all the beauties of life, big and small, fully. In…
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Continue reading →: Vicious is a Dark Perspective on Super Powered Individuals
Authored by V.E. Schwab; Published 2013; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Vicious is, predictably, quite dark. In the age of Marvel movies, it’s easy to minimize the impact that extraordinarily powered individuals can have. But this novel doesn’t shy away from those impacts, and in turn, it becomes quite dark.…
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Continue reading →: Where They Last Saw Her is a Chilling Commentary
Authored by Marcie Rendon; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Technically, Where They Last Saw Her is a mystery, but to me, it came off much more as social commentary. The commentary was powerful; it just wasn’t really about who had committed the crime. Where They Last Saw Her…
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Continue reading →: The Grey Wolf is Not Quite as Peaceful as the Typical Gamache Mystery
Authored by Louise Penny; Published October 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ve been reading Louise Penny’s mysteries for years—they always give me a mixture of comfort and anxiety, and The Grey Wolf was no exception. While some of the classic elements of the Inspector Gamachr mysteries were missing, it was…
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Continue reading →: The Defense is On the Clock
Authored by Steve Cavanagh; Published 2016; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ When I was a teenager, I loved the show 24. The Defense had the same vibe: The whole plot was on a clock, and it practically vibrated with suspense. The Defense follows Eddie Flynn, con man turned lawyer, as he…
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