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Continue reading →: The Witches of New York Goes Deep into Early Twentieth Century Magic
Authored by Ami McKay; Published 2016; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I really wanted to love The Witches of New York. Goodness knows, I’m a sucker for a magic-oriented fantasy novel, and I love a strong female heroine. For me, though, this one missed the mark. I wanted to be invested…
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Continue reading →: Summer Romance Recaptures the Charm of a Vacation Fling
Authored by Annabel Monaghan; Published June 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Summer Romance is, as you might expect, an excellent beach read. In what may be a growing trend in the genre, it feels like the main villain in the novel is the heroine, Ali, herself: the way she has…
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Continue reading →: The Goddess of Warsaw is Not a Light Read, But a Good One
Authored by Lisa Barr; Published May 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The Goddess of Warsaw, predictably, is a difficult novel to read. It does not shy away from the atrocities of the Holocaust, and that type of graphic cruelty is hard to look at for long periods of time.…
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Continue reading →: The Kind Worth Killing is a Non-Stop Chase
Authored by Peter Swanson; Published 2015; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There’s something satisfying about a thriller with absolutely no who-dun-it aspect, and that is what The Kind Worth Killing is. From the beginning, the murderers are clear—the only question is whether they will get away with it. There are, of…
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Continue reading →: The Return of Ellie Black
Authored by Emiko Jean; Published May 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I may have read one too many novels like The Return of Ellie Black. To me, there was nothing particularly shocking or remarkable in it–and in several ways, that’s actually a good thing. The writing didn’t get in the…
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Continue reading →: The Ministry of Time Made Me Laugh and Think
Authored by Kaliane Bradley; Published May 2024; Science fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The first thing that struck me about The Ministry of Time was that it made me laugh. Introduce figures from across the past several centuries into the modern-day U.K., and surely hijinks will ensue. The humor got me…
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Continue reading →: The Goblin Emperor is Light on Magic, Heavy on Heart
Authored by Katherine Addison; Published 2014; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Although elves and goblins are the only characters in The Goblin Emperor, I found myself consistently forgetting that fact. This novel was about 95% court intrigue, and 5% fantasy. While I would have liked a few more hints of the…
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Continue reading →: Good Material Breaks the Romance Mold
Authored by Dolly Alderton; Published November 2023 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I first started Good Material, I kind of hated it. A little part of me dreaded picking it up every time. It is a disturbingly detailed and accurate recounting of a bad break up, and, as a mark of quite how…
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Continue reading →: Lies and Weddings Shows the World of the Super Rich
Authored by Kevin Kwan; Published May 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only one reason to read Kevin Kwan’s books: to step into the lives of the uber-rich and enjoy a few days in their shoes. Like many of his other novels, Lies and…
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Continue reading →: The Fifth Season Looks at How Much We Love Control
Authored by N.K. Jemisin; Published in 2015; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Fifth Season is totally transporting—these four hundred pages introduce you to a new world, a new language, a new way of living. I can be intimidated by books that do this, that immerse me in a whole new…
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