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Continue reading →: The Hate U Give Might Need To Be Mandatory Reading
Authored by Angie Thomas; Published 2017; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Hate U Give is powerful. To remember that it was written years before Black Lives Matter only makes it more so, and I wish I had read it a long time ago. In The Hate U Give, Starr lives in Garden…
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Continue reading →: One Golden Summer Will Bring You Back to the Halcyon Days of Yore
Authored by Carley Fortune; Published May 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ One Golden Summer has the dreamy summer vibes of the perfect beach read, with just enough drama to keep you hooked until the very end. It may be the fall, but if you are reminiscing about hot summer days,…
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Continue reading →: Nightshade is Standard Police Procedural Fare
Authored by Michael Connelly; Published May 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Nightshade is fine. I wish I could come up with something more insightful to say about it, but to me, it came off as a very standard procedural mystery. Nightshade follows Sheriff Stilwell, who has been banished to Catalina…
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Continue reading →: The Long Game Is Giving Ted Lasso Vibes
Authored by Elena Armas; Published 2023; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Have you watched Ted Lasso? Do you love the incredibly grumpy Roy Kent? Have you imagined him as the hero of a romance novel? Don’t worry, Elena Armas has done the work for you in The Long Game. In The…
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Continue reading →: Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet is Definitely Not Your Typical Romantasy
Authored by Samantha Allen; Published December 2024; Fantasy/Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If you think dragons and heaving bosoms when you see that a novel is fantasy/romance, let me be clear: that is not Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet. It’s more like a dead-end romance facilitated by inexplicable supernatural phenomena. In…
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Continue reading →: The One and Only Vivian Stone Lets You Live Out Your Hollywood Fantasies
Authored by Melissa O’Connor; Published July 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you have dreamed of being a 1950s Hollywood starlet, The One and Only Vivian Stone is the book for you. All of those dreams will finally come true through Vivian. In The One and Only Vivian Stone,…
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Continue reading →: Psyche and Eros Puts a Twist on Greek Mythology
Authored by Luna McNamara; Published 2023; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you love Greek mythology, you will love Psyche and Eros. I recognized many of the names of Greek heroes, gods and goddesses that are scattered throughout the novel, but I did not know them well enough to grasp all…
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Continue reading →: The Author’s Guide to Murder Should Be Approached with Levity
Authored by Beatriz Williams, Karen White and Lauren Willig; Published November 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ It is really quite imperative that you approach The Author’s Guide to Murder with the right mindset. That is, you really can’t take it too seriously. In The Author’s Guide to Murder, cozy mystery…
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Continue reading →: Sunny Side Up is Basically Already a Rom-Com Script
Authored by Katie Sturino; Published June 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Sunny Side Up is all too easy to picture as a lighthearted rom-com blockbuster. It has all the key features: the girl gang that surrounds the heroine, the suave guy (who is not the right guy), and the delightfully…
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Continue reading →: Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime Adds Comic Relief to Murder Mystery
Authored by Leonie Swann; Published 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I feel like Agnes Sharp and her band of misfit senior citizens may be growing on me. I certainly enjoyed Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime more than I expected to. Agnes is getting a little concerned about…
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