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Continue reading →: Bug Hollow Paints a Confusing Family Portrait
Authored by Michelle Huneven; Published June 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bug Hollow is less a cohesive narrative than several vignettes about a sprawling, confusing family, glued together in a less than linear fashion. This is not the novel to pick up for a point A to point B story. Bug Hollow…
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Continue reading →: The Kraken Wakes is the 1950s Version of an Alien Invasion
Authored by John Wyndham; Published 1953; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ My husband has chided me for never reading books more than a few years old—and The Kraken Wakes made me understand why this could be a problem. I loved hearing this 1950s rendering of a firsthand encounter with an…
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Continue reading →: Anywhere with You is an Advertisement for Van Life
Authored by Ellie Palmer; Published August 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Anywhere with You simultaneously charmed and infuriated me. It is a sweet story of two best friends who finally become lovers, but I couldn’t help but question if that transition is wise. Anywhere with You starts with Charlotte (Charley)…
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Continue reading →: Death at the White Hart is Full of Red Herrings
Authored by Chris Chibnall; Published March 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Death at the White Hart has all the right mystery components for me. Plenty twisty, with just enough flair to the detectives to keep me interested and attached. In Death at the White Hart, Detective Sergeant Nicola Bridge has…
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Continue reading →: Blood Over Bright Haven May Seem Fantastical But It Presents Real World Dilemmas
Authored by M.L. Wang; Published 2023; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Blood Over Bright Haven stands out to me for its unique combination of magic, religion, and technology. Its system of magic is described in precise, fascinating detail, but this book actually has much more commentary about our world than is…
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Continue reading →: Great Big Beautiful Life is, Well, Great
Authored by Emily Henry; Published April 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ When a romance makes me feel something besides a swoon and the love depicted is bigger than just the couple, I can’t help but adore it. For me, that was Great Big Beautiful Life. In Great Big Beautiful Life,…
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Continue reading →: Bluebird Day is a Perfect (Dramatic) Snow Day Read
Authored by Megan Tady; Published December 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Bluebird Day is centered on a complex mother-daughter relationship that needs a lot of therapy to sort out—but it has just enough escapist elements (e.g. snowed in in a cozy hostel in Switzerland) to relieve the tension. In Bluebird…
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Continue reading →: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax Brings Us Back to the Cold War
Authored by Dorothy Gilman; Published 1966; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax is undoubtedly a classic, reaching back further than the average throwback Thursday. 1966 is a long time ago, but this novel has retained its fun, comical quality. The titular Mrs. Pollifax is an elderly widow, but…
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Continue reading →: Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe is Awkward Teen Romance in a Fantastical Setting
Authored by C.B. Lee; Published July 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The fantastical concepts at the heart of Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe are fascinating—so much so that I could have done with a lot more magic and a little less teenage romance. In Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, Brenda…
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Continue reading →: Interstellar MegaChef Made Me Cringe a Little and Think a Lot
Authored by Lavanya Lakshminarayan; Published November 2024; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Everything about Interstellar MegaChef, from the cover to the over-the-top characters, screams cheesy sci-fi. Yet, somehow, the novel delves into pretty deep topics. In Interstellar MegaChef, Saraswati Kaveri is on the run from planet Earth, or, more specifically,…
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