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Continue reading →: The Stone Witch of Florence
Authored by Anna Rasche; Published October 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ For a book set during the black plague, The Stone Witch of Florence is quite a lot of fun. It may be dark humor, but humor certainly abounds. The Stone Witch of Florence follows Ginevra, a poor young woman…
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Continue reading →: The Life Impossible
Authored by Matt Haig; Published September 2024; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you are feeling disenchanted by life, run down bu daily inconveniences and tragedy, I must recommend The Life Impossible to you. It’s a bighearted novel about experiencing all the beauties of life, big and small, fully. In…
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Continue reading →: Vicious is a Dark Perspective on Super Powered Individuals
Authored by V.E. Schwab; Published 2013; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Vicious is, predictably, quite dark. In the age of Marvel movies, it’s easy to minimize the impact that extraordinarily powered individuals can have. But this novel doesn’t shy away from those impacts, and in turn, it becomes quite dark.…
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Continue reading →: Where They Last Saw Her is a Chilling Commentary
Authored by Marcie Rendon; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Technically, Where They Last Saw Her is a mystery, but to me, it came off much more as social commentary. The commentary was powerful; it just wasn’t really about who had committed the crime. Where They Last Saw Her…
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Continue reading →: The Grey Wolf is Not Quite as Peaceful as the Typical Gamache Mystery
Authored by Louise Penny; Published October 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ve been reading Louise Penny’s mysteries for years—they always give me a mixture of comfort and anxiety, and The Grey Wolf was no exception. While some of the classic elements of the Inspector Gamachr mysteries were missing, it was…
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Continue reading →: The Defense is On the Clock
Authored by Steve Cavanagh; Published 2016; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ When I was a teenager, I loved the show 24. The Defense had the same vibe: The whole plot was on a clock, and it practically vibrated with suspense. The Defense follows Eddie Flynn, con man turned lawyer, as he…
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Continue reading →: The Witches of El Paso Has a Coven Full of… Nuns?
Authored by Luis Jaramillo; Published October 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I’m pretty sure The Witches of El Paso is the first fantasy novel that I read with a coven full of nuns. Nuns are not, I would say, the most natural friends of witches. The novel follows Marta and…
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Continue reading →: Gather Me
Authored by Glory Edim; Published October 2024; Memoir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just about the only nonfiction books that I read now are memoirs, and Gather Me is a perfect example of why. Glory Edim is brave and wise enough to write a vulnerable, honest recounting of her life experiences, and after reading…
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Continue reading →: Great and Precious Things is About Soulmates (Again)
Authored by Rebecca Yarros; Published 2020; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ It has been argued that romance novels are formulaic to the point of inducing boredom. While I don’t fully agree with that assessment for Great and Precious Things, it is certainly verging on that territory. In Great and Precious Things,…
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Continue reading →: The Mighty Red is Full of Misguided Teenagers
Authored by Louise Eldrich; Published September 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I struggled with The Mighty Red the whole way through. Undeniably compelled by elements of the story, I could not help but be equally repelled by the treatment of the women in the novel and the reminder of just…
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