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Continue reading →: The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau is an Interesting Twist on Robin Hood
Authored by Kristen Harmel; Published June 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Okay, I *am* tired of World War II historical fiction novels, and I could understand if you were too. But, if I were you, I’d make an exception for The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, which somehow manages…
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Continue reading →: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is Vampire-Centric, But It is No Twilight
Authored by V.E. Schwab; Published June 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a vampire story. But don’t be fooled—this isn’t a romantasy jaunt but rather a long-form meditation on the value of life and the soul. Maria, Charlotte and Alice all have one…
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Continue reading →: The Searcher Portrays Justice as a Community Effort
Authored by Tana French; Published 2020; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Searcher is not a pulse-pounding page-turning thriller. It is less about the urgent need to find a murderer and more about how a community forms, dissolves, and can turn against one of their own. It’s paced more like a…
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Continue reading →: Run for the Hills is a Love Song to Siblings
Authored by Kevin Wilson; Published May 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ If you want to remember the kind of gifts—and annoyances—that siblings can present, Run for the Hills will do that for you. Run for the Hills follows four half-siblings—one father, four mothers—as they band together to confront their dad,…
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Continue reading →: It’s a Love Story Revolves Around Self-Love More than Romance
Authored by Annabel Monaghan; Published May 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ It’s a Love Story *is* a love story, but it’s much more about the heroine loving herself than the hero. And that is just the way I like my romances. In It’s a Love Story, Jane is desperate to…
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Continue reading →: The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Does Not Have Your Typical Heroes
Authored by Leonie Swann; Published 2023; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If I had to pick one word to describe The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp, it would be: kooky. There’s something about centering your story on five senior citizens who no longer care how they come off to the world…
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Continue reading →: The Secret War of Julia Child is More History than Cuisine
Authored by Diana Chambers; Published October 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you love Julia Child, the woman, as opposed to Julia, the chef, The Secret War of Julia Child will almost certainly intrigue and ensnare you. If you’re looking for a book about French cuisine, look elsewhere. In…
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Continue reading →: Darkly is a Delight for Escape Room Enthusiasts
Authored by Marisha Pessl; Published November 2024; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you love escape rooms, and especially those designed with a creepy backdrop, the novel Darkly is for you. The whole book felt like an immersive puzzle. Darkly follows Dia Gannon, an outcast at her high school, as she…
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Continue reading →: The Pumpkin Spice Cafe is Better than You Might Expect from a TikTok Sensation
Authored by Laurie Gilmore; Published 2023; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️/🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I confess: I had low expectations for The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, made famous on none other than the platform TikTok. If the main selling point of a book is that it blew up on TikTok, I am somewhat inclined to turn up…
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Continue reading →: The Girls of Good Fortune Has Fairy Tale Vibes
Authored by Kristina McMorris; Published May 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Girls of Good Fortune may be billed as a historical fiction novel, but it bears a certain resemblance to a fairy tale. While it had a fascinating setting to draw in the reader, it’s offset by a…
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