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Continue reading →: Run for the Hills is a Love Song to Siblings
Authored by Kevin Wilson; Published May 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ If you want to remember the kind of gifts—and annoyances—that siblings can present, Run for the Hills will do that for you. Run for the Hills follows four half-siblings—one father, four mothers—as they band together to confront their dad,…
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Continue reading →: It’s a Love Story Revolves Around Self-Love More than Romance
Authored by Annabel Monaghan; Published May 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ It’s a Love Story *is* a love story, but it’s much more about the heroine loving herself than the hero. And that is just the way I like my romances. In It’s a Love Story, Jane is desperate to…
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Continue reading →: The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Does Not Have Your Typical Heroes
Authored by Leonie Swann; Published 2023; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If I had to pick one word to describe The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp, it would be: kooky. There’s something about centering your story on five senior citizens who no longer care how they come off to the world…
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Continue reading →: The Secret War of Julia Child is More History than Cuisine
Authored by Diana Chambers; Published October 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you love Julia Child, the woman, as opposed to Julia, the chef, The Secret War of Julia Child will almost certainly intrigue and ensnare you. If you’re looking for a book about French cuisine, look elsewhere. In…
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Continue reading →: Darkly is a Delight for Escape Room Enthusiasts
Authored by Marisha Pessl; Published November 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you love escape rooms, and especially those designed with a creepy backdrop, the novel Darkly is for you. The whole book felt like an immersive puzzle. Darkly follows Dia Gannon, an outcast at her high school, as she…
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Continue reading →: The Pumpkin Spice Cafe is Better than You Might Expect from a TikTok Sensation
Authored by Laurie Gilmore; Published 2023; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️/🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I confess: I had low expectations for The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, made famous on none other than the platform TikTok. If the main selling point of a book is that it blew up on TikTok, I am somewhat inclined to turn up…
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Continue reading →: The Girls of Good Fortune Has Fairy Tale Vibes
Authored by Kristina McMorris; Published May 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Girls of Good Fortune may be billed as a historical fiction novel, but it bears a certain resemblance to a fairy tale. While it had a fascinating setting to draw in the reader, it’s offset by a…
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Continue reading →: Shield of Sparrows is All About the Slooooooow Burn
Authored by Devney Perry; Published May 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Shield of Sparrows takes the concept of slow burn to an extreme. The world the author creates, full of magic and monsters, is fascinating, but if you are not ready to wait… and wait… to see the hero and…
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Continue reading →: Yellowface is a Masterful Psychological Thriller
Authored by R. F. Kuang; Published 2023; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I blazed through Yellowface, feeling like I was teetering on the edge of a cliff, apt to fall at any moment. It is a masterwork of a psychological thriller—so tense that it was difficult to read at moments. Yellowface…
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Continue reading →: Women’s Hotel Did Not Sell Me on Living Dorm Style
Authored by Daniel Lavery; Published October 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I am so glad to live in the 21st century, where women can work and live independently in their own apartments. As much as Women’s Hotel brings the humor, it did not sell me on the collective dorm…
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