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Continue reading →: The King Must Die Bursts with Interesting Ideas
Authored by Kemi Ashing-Giwa; Published November 2025; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The King Must Die has one of the most frustrating flaws a novel can have–it contains the kernels of far too many good ideas, and none of them is able to reach their full potential in such a…
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Continue reading →: Alchemised is Brutal
Authored by SenLin Yu; Published September 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Perhaps you have heard of Alchemised, the notoriously long, Book Tok-lauded dark fantasy novel guaranteed to tear your heart out and stomp all over it. Although it does have a certain addictive allure, I can’t say that it’s my…
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Continue reading →: Postmortem Features a Giant Among Heroines
Authored by Patricia Cornwell; Published 1990; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ve known about Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series for years, but I wasn’t sure about a mystery series featuring a medical examiner–it just seemed a little more morbid than other procedurals. I finally decided to give Postmortem, the first in…
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Continue reading →: The Book Club for Troublesome Women Will Inspire You
Authored by Marie Bostwick; Published April 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If you grew up idolizing famous feminists, it would be difficult for you not to enjoy The Book Club for Troublesome Women. It left me feeling empowered to chase what I really want in life, even when doors…
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Continue reading →: Wild Reverence Has the Air of Greek Tragedy
Authored by Rebecca Ross; Published September 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have a very particular quirk: I need to read books in narrative chronological order, regardless of the order of publication. In this case, it meant reading Wild Reverence, a prequel, before the previously-published books that occur in the…
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Continue reading →: The Thousandth Floor Declares: Teen Drama is the Same, Regardless of the Year
Authored by Katharine McGee; Published 2016; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Thousandth Floor may take place over a century in the future, but the teen drama looks exactly the same as it does today. You can wrap it in flashy, convenience-creating technology, but entitled teenagers are still entitled teenagers. …
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Continue reading →: Best Offer Wins is Not for Prospective Home Buyers
Authored by Marisa Kashino; Published November 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If you have a nightmare househunting experience in your past or your near future, you should skip right past Best Offer Wins. No one would (or should) take their desire for a house quite as far as the heroine…
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Continue reading →: Summer in the City Does Not Do Romance Tropes Justice
Authored by Alex Aster; Published March 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Summer in the City contains within its pages just about every trope I have ever read in a romantic comedy. I admit, I like a good trope. Executed well, they feel like a cozy and well-worn blanket. This novel,…
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Continue reading →: A Wizard of Earthsea Will Enchant Your Child
Authored by Ursula Le Guin; Published 1968; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ A Wizard of Earthsea has all the hallmarks of a magical coming-of-age story, with lessons in the price of magic and the perils of possessing power without character, along with a school for young mages and adventures through dragon-filled…
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Continue reading →: The Museum Detective is for Archaeology Buffs
Authored by Maha Khan Phillips; Published April 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I can’t help but notice that in today’s murder mysteries, a lot of crime-solving heroes are… not detectives, or even affiliated with law enforcement. Instead, they’re well-motivated, curious civilians with the drive to untangle the puzzles in front…
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