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Continue reading →: Slightly Married Takes Fake Dating Back to the Victorian Era
Authored by Mary Balogh; Published 2003; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Slightly Married is basically just the Victorian-era version of a fake dating story. It turns out a rom-com trope is a rom-com trope, regardless of the setting. In Slightly Married, Eve is facing a devastating dilemma: Following the death of…
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Continue reading →: We Are All Guilty Here is Impossible to Put Down
Authored by Karin Slaughter; Published August 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ It has been such a long time since I read a thriller that I truly never wanted to put down. We Are All Guilty Here is that thriller. In We Are All Guilty Here, Emmy Lou and her father…
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Continue reading →: Maggie; Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Authored by Katie Yee; Published July 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you described Maggie; Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar to me, I would have told you that it is simply not my cup of tea–too depressing, and not nearly enough action. And I would have been…
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Continue reading →: A Thin Dark Line Depicts Unfortunately Ordinary Harassment
Authored by Tami Hoag; Published 1997; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ A Thin Dark Line was published almost thirty years ago—-and it reads like it. Still, the mystery is an engaging one, if you can stomach the extent of the heroine’s harassment. In A Thin Dark Line, the small town of…
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Continue reading →: Sheepdogs Makes Spy Thrillers Zany
Authored by Elliot Ackerman; Published August 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you take a classic spy thriller, transport it to this year, and add a dose of weirdness, Sheepdogs will be the result. As zany as it is, it also feels surprisingly true to life. In Sheepdogs, Skwerl, a…
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Continue reading →: A Mastery of Monsters Presents a Fascinating, if Complex, World
Authored by Liselle Sambury; Published July 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have read and loved many YA fantasy novels, frequently questioning if their audience need be limited to young adults. While A Mastery of Monsters holds some promise, it does not quite reach those heights. In A Mastery of…
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Continue reading →: Rachel’s Holiday is Far More Serious Than I Predicted
Authored by Marian Keyes; Published 1997; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Watermelon, the first novel in Marian Keyes’s series on the Walsh family, is a fun, romantic jaunt. I expected more of the same from Rachel’s Holiday, and I could not have been more wrong. Rachel’s life in New York is glamorous and…
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Continue reading →: The Unraveling of Julia is Quite a Jumble
Authored by Lisa Scottoline; Published July 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Unraveling of Julia can’t seem to decide what kind of novel it wants to be. Part flirtation with the supernatural, part murder mystery, part white-collar scheming, there is just too much jumbled into this novel. In The Unraveling…
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Continue reading →: The Compound Shows a Dark Reality TV Future
Authored by Aisling Rawle; Published June 2025; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ If you have ever turned on prime time television and thought, “Wow, society has really gone down the tubes,” The Compound will not help you change your opinion. Its depiction of reality TV is just disturbing enough—and just…
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Continue reading →: Dead Until Dark is Among the Forerunners of Vampire Romantasy
Authored by Charlaine Harris; Published 2001; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ Dead Until Dark is a novel ahead of its time—a steamy romantasy featuring a hot vampire and other supernatural creatures. But, as prophetic as it may have been of the current fad, I wouldn’t say that it’s my favorite of…
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