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Continue reading →: Long Time Gone
Authored by Charlie Donlea; Published May 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Sometimes, I set myself up for failure when I pick up a mystery to read. My brain has a tendency to go into overdrive and create twists where none exist, seeing ghosts behind every metaphorical corner. Reading Long Time…
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Continue reading →: Funny Story is About More than Romance
Authored by Emily Henry; Published April 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I love Emily Henry’s romances. They’re never *just* about the love story but the full emotional life of the heroine. At the end of Henry’s books, the star crossed pair is not just together, but better. Funny Story is…
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Continue reading →: These Is My Words Brings Me Back to the Oregon Trail
Authored by Nancy Turner; Published 1998; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ These is My Words is a significant departure from the novels that I normally read. It doesn’t have one big climax that the entire book is leading up to; instead, it’s a series of mountains and valleys throughout the…
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Continue reading →: The Wings Upon Her Back Shows the Destruction Religion and Power Can Wreak
Authored by Samantha Mills; Published April 2024; Science Fiction/Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The heart of the most powerful version of the story of The Wings Upon Her Back is the trauma that can be inflicted by a person seeking power, wrapped in the trappings of religion. Trauma inflicted on a…
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Continue reading →: The Murder of Mr. Ma Took Me Back to a Simpler Time
Authored by S.J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee; Published April 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The word that first occurs to me when I try to describe The Murder of Mr. Ma is charming. It’s from another era, one more scandalized by drug use and sex than the one…
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Continue reading →: In the Woods Goes Deeper than the Average Police Procedural
Authored by Tana French; Published 2007; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I don’t normally love novels like In the Woods. Without spoiling too much, the ending is certainly not what I would have hoped for. Yet, even though my heart tugged with pain when I closed this book, I enjoyed it…
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Continue reading →: One of Us Knows is a Step into Horror
Authored by Alyssa Cole; Published April 2024; Thriller/horror ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I’m not quite sure how to talk about One of Us Knows, because I have no idea how accurate its portrayal of dissociative identity disorder (DID) is. Which, considering all of the fantasy and science fiction I’ve read, shouldn’t…
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Continue reading →: Annie Bot was a Little Disturbing… in a Good Way?
Authored by Sierra Greer; Published March 2024; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Annie Bot is a difficult read. Not the writing, which flows easily, or the plot, which made it near impossible to put down. No, it was difficult to read emotionally. Despite knowing that Annie is a robot from…
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Continue reading →: The Three Body Problem is a Classic for a Reason
Authored by Liu Cixin; Published 2006; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Three Body Problem has become much more than a trilogy of books, expanding into the world of Netflix and abundant fan fiction. (For the record, I am a purist. I won’t be watching the TV series until I…
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Continue reading →: The Fox Wife is a Perfect Novel to Curl Up and Read
Authored by Yangsze Choo; Published February 2024; Fantasy/Mystery ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There is such a thing as a vibes mystery novel. Among my personal favorites are Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache series, set in snowy Quebec, Canada. The Fox Wife reminded me a little of that–it’s a gentler…
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