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Continue reading →: Code Name Helene is, Shockingly, True
Authored by Ariel Lawhon; Published March 2020; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The first thing that you need to know about Code Name Helene is that it is based on the story of a real woman. I wish I had known before diving into this story, because more than once…
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Continue reading →: The Briar Club is History from a Unique Perspective
Authored by Kate Quinn; Published July 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I love the way that Kate Quinn exhibits US history in The Briar Club. I read most of this book in a single day—despite the seemingly small stakes, it was tough to put down. The Briar Club tells…
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Continue reading →: Olive Days Shows the Reader an Exhausting Life
Authored by Jessica Elisheva Emerson; Published September 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Olive Days allows its readers to experience a life that most of us will never live—that of an Orthodox Jewish wife and mother. The insights it gives into this cloistered community fascinated me, depressed me, and exhausted me.…
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Continue reading →: Lakeshire Park Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Authored by Megan Walker; Published 2020; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Lakeshire Park is unabashedly predictable. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice, you know how this story will unfold within the first few chapters. But, it’s a regency romance—isn’t that kind of what you signed up for? Amelia and her sister…
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Continue reading →: Once More From the Top is for the Swifties
Authored by Emily Layden; Published September 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ If even a single person can read Once More From The Top without thinking of Taylor Swift, I would be shocked. I’m not a swiftie, but as the book follows the rise of Dylan Read, country turned pop turned…
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Continue reading →: Death at the Sanatorium Pays Homage to the Great Mystery Writers
Authored by Ragnar Jonasson; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Death at the Sanatorium was crafted in the legacy of Agatha Christie, and there are reminders of that everywhere. Homage after homage to great mystery writers fill the book—and it is a worthy successor to these classics. Death at…
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Continue reading →: House of Suns is the Cosmic Mystery of Your Dreams
Authored by Alastair Reynolds; Published 2008; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ House of Suns is a thrilling whodunit on a cosmic scale, spanning huge swaths of time and space. While many traditional sci-fi elements were prominently featured, I’d never seen them configured in quite this way. House of Suns follows…
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Continue reading →: All the Colors of the Dark Reveals Small Town Secrets
Authored by Chris Whitaker; Published June 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ All the Colors of the Dark is, again, a tome of a mystery, covering multiple decades and generations of townspeople. The intricate layering of the story is impressive—but I found the characters just a little too difficult to empathize…
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Continue reading →: History Repeats Itself in The Fallen Fruit
Authored by Shawntelle Madison; Published September 2024; Fantasy / Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Fallen Fruit was not exactly what I expected it to be. I am easily drawn in by the talk of curses and time travel, but this novel wasn’t that type of fantasy, really. It’s about…
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Continue reading →: The Last Detective is a Classic—in Both the Good and Bad Ways
Authored by Peter Lovesey; Published 1991; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The hero of The Last Detective, Peter Diamond, is a classic hardboiled detective. Thirty years after publication, he doesn’t look quite as heroic as he used to, but the mystery is as compelling as ever. The Last Detective follows English…
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