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Continue reading →: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is Powerful but Painful
Authored by Jessica Guerrieri; Published May 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, was, at times, painful to read—like watching a plane crash in slow motion. And yet, it communicated the story of addiction and motherhood unlike I have ever seen it recounted before. In Between…
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Continue reading →: Time Travel Makes it Work in Some Desperate Glory
Authored by Emily Tesh; Published 2023; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Some Desperate Glory made me realize just how much I love a good time travel/ alternative timeline plot. I know, it’s exceedingly difficult to create a plot around a system of time travel with consistent rules. But, as a…
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Continue reading →: The Pretender is Not Just for History Buffs
Authored by Jo Harkin; Published April 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I was not optimistic about The Pretender when I first started it, especially considering my lack of knowledge of early English history. But it turns out humans are humans in every era, and this coming of age story…
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Continue reading →: Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil is For Those Who Need a Dose of Silly
Authored by Oliver Darkshire; Published May 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I can’t even remember the last time I read a novel that I considered to be truly and enjoyably silly, but Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil most definitely is. I wouldn’t have thought a Keats poem could…
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Continue reading →: I Have Some Questions for You is Wild Ride of a Mystery
Authored by Rebecca Makkai; Published 2023; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I Have Some Questions for You was a wild ride. The book is *thick,* frankly far thicker than I expected for the mystery that I believed I got for myself. I Have Some Questions for You follows Bodie, a professional…
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Continue reading →: The Lilac People May Depict History But Certainly Resonates Today
Authored by Milo Todd; Published April 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Woof. The Lilac People is a shock to the system. The tragedy of how trans people were treated in the aftermath of World War II, just how deplorably the Americans acted, and the disturbing resonance with today makes it a…
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Continue reading →: The Bright Years Shows How Painful—and Beautiful—Forgiveness Can Be
Authored by Sarah Damoff; Published April 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is rare, in a novel, to have the density of both pain and forgiveness contained in The Bright Years. It brought me to tears, and it brought me hope. In The Bright Years, Lilian and Ryan’s romance is full of…
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Continue reading →: Tension Thrums Throughout Those Empty Eyes
Authored by Charlie Donlea; Published 2023; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The first book I read by Charlie Donlea did not blow me away—but Those Empty Eyes more than made up for it. Just enough disparate threads, brought together in a stunning conclusion. The tension thrummed throughout the novel. Those Empty…
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Continue reading →: These Days is About as Calm as a War Novel Can Be
Authored by Lucy Caldwell; Published April 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ To the extent that a novel about the events of World War II can be peaceful, These Days is that novel. It has its share of sorrow and violent attacks, but it also manages to capture the relatively quiet existence…
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Continue reading →: Terrestrial History Will Give You Climate Anxiety
Authored by Joe Mungo Reed; Published April 2024; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Terrestrial History is a look back from the future, giving the reader an excruciatingly comprehensive view of how climate change drives the human race off of earth. Trigger warning: It is almost certainly as anxiety inducing as…
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