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Continue reading →: The Husbands
Authored by Holly Gramazio; Published April 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I cannot recommend The Husbands if you are in the throes of online dating. It presents a dizzying array of possible partners for the heroine, and it may make swiping on a dating app seem more daunting than it…
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Continue reading →: Case Histories Shows the Strange Ways Lives Can Intersect
Authored by Kate Atkinson; Published 2004; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Case Histories was not at all what I was expecting out of a mystery. Light on investigation, light on tension—lots of character texture. Case Histories follows Jackson Brodie, a retired inspector turned private detective, as he investigates several cold cases—the…
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Continue reading →: How to End a Love Story is a Romance Unlike Any Other
Authored by Yulin Kuang; Published February 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ From just about the first page of How to End a Love Story, I felt deeply connected with the heroine, Helen. The responsibility she feels for taking care of others’ feelings, the discomfort she feels at never quite fitting…
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Continue reading →: The Women is Worth the Hype
Authored by Kristin Hannah; Published February 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I cannot count how many times The Women was recommended to me this year. It was worth the hype. The Women follows Frances “Frankie” McGrath as she joins the army to be a combat nurse in Vietnam and then returns…
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Continue reading →: The Late Show is About Breaking the Rules
Authored by Michael Connelly; Published 2017; Mystery ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I think I might be too much of a rule follower to enjoy Michael Connelly’s The Late Show. Every time the heroine, Detective Ballard chose to deviate from the accepted rules and procedures, a small voice inside me asked: Isn’t…
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Continue reading →: The Hunter Ratchets Up the Tension
Authored by Tana French; Published March 2024; Mystery/Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ll admit, I wasn’t completely sold on Tana French’s first book in the Cal Hooper series, The Searcher. The Hunter more than made up for any doubts I had, reminding me of French’s penchant for building suspense in her…
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Continue reading →: Quicksilver is for Romantasy Lovers
Authored by Callie Hart; Published June 2024; Fantasy/Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have read Sarah J. Mass’s ACOTAR series, you will be very familiar with the fae that feature in Quicksilver. Thanks to Maas’s enormous success, it seems that readers will be getting an education in fae mythology for…
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Continue reading →: The Curse of Chalion Enchanted Me
Authored by Lois McMaster Bujold; Published 2001; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ This is the tale of magical court intrigue that I’ve been looking for. The Curse of Chalion narrates the journey of the faithful servant Cazaril as he becomes a vassal of the gods and breaks a generational curse hanging…
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Continue reading →: What You Leave Behind Sits Between Genres
Authored by Wanda Morris; Published June 2024; Mystery/Horror/Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I wasn’t quite sure how to categorize What You Leave Behind—there are some definitive fantasy elements, some horror vibes, but overall it’s a mystery. Although it had some tense moments, it was not my favorite thriller of the season.…
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Continue reading →: The Au Pair Affair Deals with Overprotectiveness
Authored by Tessa Bailey, published July 2024, Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I was of two minds about The Au Pair Affair from almost the very beginning. The couple in this novel were introduced in a previous Tessa Bailey romance Fangirl Down and were poised to be another adorable escapist dream,…
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