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Continue reading →: The Ghost Cat Made Me Cherish My Cat
Authored by Alex Howard; Published August 2024; Fantasy, Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I would not say that cat lovers are necessarily known for being sentimental, but The Ghost Cat definitely made me want to hug my cat and cherish the time I have with him. The Ghost Cat follows…
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Continue reading →: The Impossible Thing Will Make You Care About… Bird Eggs?
Authored by Belinda Bauer; Published April 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I enjoyed The Impossible Thing, in spite of myself. A novel centered on the bizarre obsession of the English upper class with collecting bird eggs? Sounds like a pass from me—and yet, it captured my attention and made me…
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Continue reading →: The Weight of Blood Will Send Chills Up Your Spine
Authored by Tiffany Jackson; Published 2022; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I’m not sure I’ve ever enjoyed a horror novel as much as I enjoyed The Weight of Blood. I listened to this one as an audiobook, and I cannot recommend that format highly enough. It was perfect for the way…
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Continue reading →: The Jackal’s Mistress is Not as Romantic as It Sounds
Authored by Chris Bohjalian; Published March 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Jackal’s Mistress is not a romance dressed up in historical fiction clothing. It is a civil war novel, with all the trappings. In The Jackal’s Mistress, Union captain Jonathan is left for dead in Virginia during the…
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Continue reading →: Dream Count is Not Optimistic on the Prospect of Marriage
Authored by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Published March 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book with quite so many men wronging women in quite so many ways as in Dream Count. It is not the novel to read if you are already depressed about the…
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Continue reading →: The Serpent and the Wings of Night Really Stuck the Landing
Authored by Carissa Broadbent; Published 2022; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Until the last quarter of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, I thought it was a relatively average novel. Those last hundred pages grabbed my heart and did not let go—I hope the sequel continues the upward trend. The…
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Continue reading →: Wordhunter is Not a Good Look for Florida
Authored by Stella Sands; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Wordhunter makes Florida come off *really* badly. The author must be holding quite the grudge to make it the scene of so much pain and misery. Wordhunter follows Maggie Moore as she juggles finishing her graduate degree in forensic…
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Continue reading →: And So I Roar is Inspiring and Tear-Inspiring
Authored by Abi Daré; Published August 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ And So I Roar made me feel the whole spectrum of emotions. One moment I was laughing, the next crying, the next stirred with inspiration to do something, anything, to change the world. That’s one of the things that…
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Continue reading →: With Prejudice is a Little Too Gritty for Me
Authored by Robin Peguero; Published 2022; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I am not one for gritty, realistic crime dramas–a realization that I came to somewhere in the middle of this novel. While undoubtedly suspenseful, With Prejudice acknowledged the slow-paced reality of court cases today and the key unorthodox players that…
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Continue reading →: The Unmothers is Tense Horror
Authored by Leslie Anderson; Published August 2024; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Is horror one of my favorite genres now? After decades of not watching a single horror film, just a few books have brought me closer to accepting this type of novel. The Unmothers is one of them. The Unmothers…
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