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Continue reading →: Precipice is Depressingly Real
Authored by Robert Harris; Published September 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I should have paid closer attention to the opening pages of Precipice: I would have noticed that the letters quoted extensively in the book, authored by the prime minister of the UK, are all real. That fact is…
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Continue reading →: Legendborn is a Modern Twist on a Classic Legend
Authored by Tracy Deonn; Published in 2020; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have never been enamored with the legend of Arthur and the round table. I didn’t go through a phase of wanting to be either a knight or a fair maiden; although I loved magical fantasy, Merlin was not…
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Continue reading →: The Paradise Problem Will Make You Forget Winter
Authored by Christina Lauren; Published May 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Paradise Problem is the perfect beach read. A beautiful setting, a plot that reads like a mishmash of your favorite romantic comedies, a swoon worthy hero—what more could you want? The Paradise Problem is the story of West…
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Continue reading →: The Murders in Great Diddling is for Book Lovers
Authored by Katarina Bivald; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I am a shamelessly enthusiastic fan of the TV show Castle. Sure, Nathan Fillion’s charm did most of the heavy lifting, but it was still entertaining to watch an author try to solve murders. There is that same potential…
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Continue reading →: Code Name Helene is, Shockingly, True
Authored by Ariel Lawhon; Published March 2020; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The first thing that you need to know about Code Name Helene is that it is based on the story of a real woman. I wish I had known before diving into this story, because more than once…
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Continue reading →: The Briar Club is History from a Unique Perspective
Authored by Kate Quinn; Published July 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I love the way that Kate Quinn exhibits US history in The Briar Club. I read most of this book in a single day—despite the seemingly small stakes, it was tough to put down. The Briar Club tells…
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Continue reading →: Olive Days Shows the Reader an Exhausting Life
Authored by Jessica Elisheva Emerson; Published September 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Olive Days allows its readers to experience a life that most of us will never live—that of an Orthodox Jewish wife and mother. The insights it gives into this cloistered community fascinated me, depressed me, and exhausted me.…
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Continue reading →: Lakeshire Park Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Authored by Megan Walker; Published 2020; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Lakeshire Park is unabashedly predictable. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice, you know how this story will unfold within the first few chapters. But, it’s a regency romance—isn’t that kind of what you signed up for? Amelia and her sister…
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Continue reading →: Once More From the Top is for the Swifties
Authored by Emily Layden; Published September 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ If even a single person can read Once More From The Top without thinking of Taylor Swift, I would be shocked. I’m not a swiftie, but as the book follows the rise of Dylan Read, country turned pop turned…
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Continue reading →: Death at the Sanatorium Pays Homage to the Great Mystery Writers
Authored by Ragnar Jonasson; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Death at the Sanatorium was crafted in the legacy of Agatha Christie, and there are reminders of that everywhere. Homage after homage to great mystery writers fill the book—and it is a worthy successor to these classics. Death at…
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