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Continue reading →: Women and Children First is Not for the Faint of Heart
Authored by Alina Grabowski; Published May 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The heart of Women and Children First is the gritty realism of daily life in a town without many jobs and a serious drug problem. It’s not graphic, but neither is it for the faint of heart. In Women and Children…
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Continue reading →: The Blacktongue Thief is an Epic Fantasy Peppered with Humor
Authored by Christopher Buehlman; Published 2021; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Blacktongue Thief is in the vein of epic fantasy of Lord of the Rings: a band of heroes journeying together across the countryside on a quest. This is not my favorite type of fantasy, but Blacktongue had a few…
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Continue reading →: The Note is Nearly Impossible to Put Down
Authored by Alafair Burke; Published January 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Note is rooted in this very particular, very current, period of history: a post-pandemic setting, the heroine still struggling with the after-effects of COVID-19 along with the implications of being canceled. I’m not sure that its closeness to…
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Continue reading →: Rental House is a Nightmare of In-Laws
Authored by Weike Wang; Published December 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Are holidays the very bane of your existence? Do you live in perpetual dread of the week or two every year that you spend in the company of the pack of wolves that raised your partner? Do you want…
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Continue reading →: The Warsaw Orphan Displays Beauty Even in the Worst of Times
Authored by Kelly Rimmer; Published 2021; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Novels set during World War II can be emotionally exhausting, and The Warsaw Orphan is no exception. There is no escaping the horror that the inhabitants of Warsaw lived through, but I found the perspective of the narrators in…
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Continue reading →: The Magnificent Ruins is Beautiful… and Filled with Trauma
Authored by Nayantara Roy; Published November 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have gone no-contact with your parents, I cannot in good conscience recommend that you read this book. The Magnificent Ruins broke my heart in its stark recounting of generational trauma. Lila is shaken from her Brooklyn-based, very…
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Continue reading →: Lazarus Man Can Give You a Little Hope
Authored by Richard Price; Published November 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Lazarus Man is a book of intense realism, but somehow, it still manages to evoke a thread of hope. It’s a tough balance to strike, and I was impressed that I didn’t feel overwhelmed by the tragedy depicted in…
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Continue reading →: The Echo Wife Made Me Sigh in Resignation
Authored by Sarah Gailey; Published February 2021; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Woof. The Echo Wife is the third book I’ve read about the excessive control that men exercise over women in the past three months and I am… depressed. In The Echo Wife, a mediocre scientist steals his wife’s…
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Continue reading →: Is She Really Going Out with Him? Is Worthy of the Rom Com Hall of Fame
Authored by Sophie Cousens; Published November 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Is She Really Going Out with Him? has a classic rom-com set up, with all of the hijinks and cringe-worthy moments to match. If you love your rom-coms, you will love this novel. Is She Really Going Out with…
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Continue reading →: The Last One at the Wedding is an Engaging Thriller
Authored by Jason Rekulak; Published October 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have been reading the news for the past couple months and are sick of reading about Elon Musk, I can’t recommend reading The Last One at the Wedding. It’s impossible not to read this one and think…
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