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Continue reading →: The Pairing is a Hedonist’s Dream
Authored by Casey McQuiston; Published August 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Pairing is a hedonist’s dream. Eat your way through France, Spain, and Italy, while falling in love with an ex? Who could resist? It tells the story of Kit and Theo, two childhood best friends who had a…
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Continue reading →: Throne of Glass is the Fae Epic You’ve Been Looking For
Authored by Sarah J. Maas; Published starting in 2012; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Throne of Glass is quite the contrast to Maas’s brand new Crescent City series. It is long-form epic fantasy, and it is certainly not set in a technology-friendly era—not a cell phone in sight. The series is…
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Continue reading →: By Any Other Name Brought Me to Tears
Authored by Jodi Picoult; Published August 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I don’t cry a lot when I’m reading—but By Any Other Name had me quietly sobbing over the last few chapters. The sheer unfairness of the way women were treated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not…
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Continue reading →: Between Friends and Lovers Has the Hero of Your Dreams
Authored by Shirlene Obuobi; Published July 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I think that I am getting old. I know it’s a problem when I read not one but two romances focused on social media influencers romances in the span of a month. Still, if you have to read one,…
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Continue reading →: Bluebird, Bluebird is About Love for Texas
Authored by Attica Locke; Published in 2017; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Bluebird, Bluebird is a Texas novel. No, really, Texas may as well be a main character in this mystery, for all that devotion to the land is invoked. It does not romanticize the state, but it does honor it.…
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Continue reading →: Navola is Political Realism at its Most Brutal
Authored by Paolo Bacigalupi; Published July 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I didn’t know that Navola was meant to be the first book in a series, but I should have guessed. The author has strewn nuggets throughout the novel, enough loose threads that were left untugged, that it calls out…
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Continue reading →: The Husbands
Authored by Holly Gramazio; Published April 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I cannot recommend The Husbands if you are in the throes of online dating. It presents a dizzying array of possible partners for the heroine, and it may make swiping on a dating app seem more daunting than it…
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Continue reading →: Case Histories Shows the Strange Ways Lives Can Intersect
Authored by Kate Atkinson; Published 2004; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Case Histories was not at all what I was expecting out of a mystery. Light on investigation, light on tension—lots of character texture. Case Histories follows Jackson Brodie, a retired inspector turned private detective, as he investigates several cold cases—the…
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Continue reading →: How to End a Love Story is a Romance Unlike Any Other
Authored by Yulin Kuang; Published February 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ From just about the first page of How to End a Love Story, I felt deeply connected with the heroine, Helen. The responsibility she feels for taking care of others’ feelings, the discomfort she feels at never quite fitting…
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Continue reading →: The Women is Worth the Hype
Authored by Kristin Hannah; Published February 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I cannot count how many times The Women was recommended to me this year. It was worth the hype. The Women follows Frances “Frankie” McGrath as she joins the army to be a combat nurse in Vietnam and then returns…
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