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Continue reading →: Sandwich is Full of Nostalgia
Authored by Catherine Newman; Published June 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I wasn’t sure that I should put Sandwich on my TBR list. Looking at the premise of the novel, it seems like it’s for a slightly older woman, looking back on her life with both contentedness and regret. But, reading it…
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Continue reading →: Creation Lake is Heavy on Philosophy, Light on Suspense
Authored by Rachel Kushner; Published August 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Creation Lake is described as a philosophical thriller, and it’s fair to say I did not vibe with the philosophical elements of the novel. It was beautifully written and introduced a fascinating perspective on the place of Homo sapiens…
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Continue reading →: The Hands of the Emperor Shows What We Want Government To Be
Authored by Victoria Goddard; Published 2018; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I’m of two minds about The Hands of the Emperor–it certainly transported me to another world, another time, another culture. It was not at all a page turner, but my investment in these characters and this kingdom grew steadily until…
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Continue reading →: You Are Here Makes Romance Realistic
Authored by David Nicholls; Published April 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ve read a lot of books set in England this year, but You Are Here is the first one that made me think that I may not be quite English enough to get it. Granted, that may be because…
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Continue reading →: The Pairing is a Hedonist’s Dream
Authored by Casey McQuiston; Published August 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Pairing is a hedonist’s dream. Eat your way through France, Spain, and Italy, while falling in love with an ex? Who could resist? It tells the story of Kit and Theo, two childhood best friends who had a…
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Continue reading →: Throne of Glass is the Fae Epic You’ve Been Looking For
Authored by Sarah J. Maas; Published starting in 2012; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Throne of Glass is quite the contrast to Maas’s brand new Crescent City series. It is long-form epic fantasy, and it is certainly not set in a technology-friendly era—not a cell phone in sight. The series is…
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Continue reading →: By Any Other Name Brought Me to Tears
Authored by Jodi Picoult; Published August 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I don’t cry a lot when I’m reading—but By Any Other Name had me quietly sobbing over the last few chapters. The sheer unfairness of the way women were treated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not…
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Continue reading →: Between Friends and Lovers Has the Hero of Your Dreams
Authored by Shirlene Obuobi; Published July 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I think that I am getting old. I know it’s a problem when I read not one but two romances focused on social media influencers romances in the span of a month. Still, if you have to read one,…
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Continue reading →: Bluebird, Bluebird is About Love for Texas
Authored by Attica Locke; Published in 2017; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Bluebird, Bluebird is a Texas novel. No, really, Texas may as well be a main character in this mystery, for all that devotion to the land is invoked. It does not romanticize the state, but it does honor it.…
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Continue reading →: Navola is Political Realism at its Most Brutal
Authored by Paolo Bacigalupi; Published July 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I didn’t know that Navola was meant to be the first book in a series, but I should have guessed. The author has strewn nuggets throughout the novel, enough loose threads that were left untugged, that it calls out…
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