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Continue reading →: The Late Show is About Breaking the Rules
Authored by Michael Connelly; Published 2017; Mystery ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I think I might be too much of a rule follower to enjoy Michael Connelly’s The Late Show. Every time the heroine, Detective Ballard chose to deviate from the accepted rules and procedures, a small voice inside me asked: Isn’t…
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Continue reading →: The Hunter Ratchets Up the Tension
Authored by Tana French; Published March 2024; Mystery/Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I’ll admit, I wasn’t completely sold on Tana French’s first book in the Cal Hooper series, The Searcher. The Hunter more than made up for any doubts I had, reminding me of French’s penchant for building suspense in her…
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Continue reading →: Quicksilver is for Romantasy Lovers
Authored by Callie Hart; Published June 2024; Fantasy/Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have read Sarah J. Mass’s ACOTAR series, you will be very familiar with the fae that feature in Quicksilver. Thanks to Maas’s enormous success, it seems that readers will be getting an education in fae mythology for…
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Continue reading →: The Curse of Chalion Enchanted Me
Authored by Lois McMaster Bujold; Published 2001; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ This is the tale of magical court intrigue that I’ve been looking for. The Curse of Chalion narrates the journey of the faithful servant Cazaril as he becomes a vassal of the gods and breaks a generational curse hanging…
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Continue reading →: What You Leave Behind Sits Between Genres
Authored by Wanda Morris; Published June 2024; Mystery/Horror/Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I wasn’t quite sure how to categorize What You Leave Behind—there are some definitive fantasy elements, some horror vibes, but overall it’s a mystery. Although it had some tense moments, it was not my favorite thriller of the season.…
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Continue reading →: The Au Pair Affair Deals with Overprotectiveness
Authored by Tessa Bailey, published July 2024, Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I was of two minds about The Au Pair Affair from almost the very beginning. The couple in this novel were introduced in a previous Tessa Bailey romance Fangirl Down and were poised to be another adorable escapist dream,…
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Continue reading →: The Witches of New York Goes Deep into Early Twentieth Century Magic
Authored by Ami McKay; Published 2016; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I really wanted to love The Witches of New York. Goodness knows, I’m a sucker for a magic-oriented fantasy novel, and I love a strong female heroine. For me, though, this one missed the mark. I wanted to be invested…
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Continue reading →: Summer Romance Recaptures the Charm of a Vacation Fling
Authored by Annabel Monaghan; Published June 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Summer Romance is, as you might expect, an excellent beach read. In what may be a growing trend in the genre, it feels like the main villain in the novel is the heroine, Ali, herself: the way she has…
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Continue reading →: The Goddess of Warsaw is Not a Light Read, But a Good One
Authored by Lisa Barr; Published May 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The Goddess of Warsaw, predictably, is a difficult novel to read. It does not shy away from the atrocities of the Holocaust, and that type of graphic cruelty is hard to look at for long periods of time.…
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Continue reading →: The Kind Worth Killing is a Non-Stop Chase
Authored by Peter Swanson; Published 2015; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There’s something satisfying about a thriller with absolutely no who-dun-it aspect, and that is what The Kind Worth Killing is. From the beginning, the murderers are clear—the only question is whether they will get away with it. There are, of…
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