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Continue reading →: House of Suns is the Cosmic Mystery of Your Dreams
Authored by Alastair Reynolds; Published 2008; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ House of Suns is a thrilling whodunit on a cosmic scale, spanning huge swaths of time and space. While many traditional sci-fi elements were prominently featured, I’d never seen them configured in quite this way. House of Suns follows…
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Continue reading →: All the Colors of the Dark Reveals Small Town Secrets
Authored by Chris Whitaker; Published June 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ All the Colors of the Dark is, again, a tome of a mystery, covering multiple decades and generations of townspeople. The intricate layering of the story is impressive—but I found the characters just a little too difficult to empathize…
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Continue reading →: History Repeats Itself in The Fallen Fruit
Authored by Shawntelle Madison; Published September 2024; Fantasy / Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Fallen Fruit was not exactly what I expected it to be. I am easily drawn in by the talk of curses and time travel, but this novel wasn’t that type of fantasy, really. It’s about…
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Continue reading →: The Last Detective is a Classic—in Both the Good and Bad Ways
Authored by Peter Lovesey; Published 1991; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The hero of The Last Detective, Peter Diamond, is a classic hardboiled detective. Thirty years after publication, he doesn’t look quite as heroic as he used to, but the mystery is as compelling as ever. The Last Detective follows English…
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Continue reading →: Counting Miracles is Classic Americana
Authored by Nicholas Sparks; Published September 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have never been a Nicholas Sparks stan. I’ve never read or seen The Notebook or A Walk to Remember. I approached this novel with some trepidation—I am a happy-ending girl and Sparks seems to be famous for his…
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Continue reading →: The God of the Woods is a Truly Epic Mystery
Authored by Liz Moore; Published July 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The God of the Woods is an epic mystery. It spans three decades and dives deeply into two different mysteries, nimbly jumping between them. I applaud Liz Moore—it takes a lot of skill to weave this much information together…
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Continue reading →: The Friend Zone Deals with Heavy Issues But Ends with Hope
Authored by Abby Jimenez; Published 2019; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Friend Zone is not a romance for the faint of heart. If you are looking for an easy read, divorced from the complexities of real relationships, this is not the one to pick up. But, I can’t help but…
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Continue reading →: Here One Moment is Not for Those with Medical Anxiety
Authored by Liane Moriarty; Published August 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I suffer from medical anxiety. To me, it is a surprise that anyone who grew up in the age of WebMD does not. So, the premise of Here One Moment, in which a woman informs many passengers on a…
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Continue reading →: Shelterwood is a Coming of Age Novel with a Side of Murder
Authored by Lisa Wingate; Published June 2024; Historical fiction / Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Shelterwood vaguely reminded me of the many, many coming of age novels that I read in school. Kids, striking off on their own because their parents can’t or won’t take care of them. It’s not my…
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Continue reading →: Disappearing Earth Brings Me to an Entirely Different Life
Authored by Julia Phillips; Published May 2019; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ At this point in my life, I have been forced to accept that reading non fiction is bot my favorites way to spend time. I try to focus on the facts, but somewhere between the paragraphs, my mind wanders…
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