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Continue reading →: Wordhunter is Not a Good Look for Florida
Authored by Stella Sands; Published August 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Wordhunter makes Florida come off *really* badly. The author must be holding quite the grudge to make it the scene of so much pain and misery. Wordhunter follows Maggie Moore as she juggles finishing her graduate degree in forensic…
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Continue reading →: And So I Roar is Inspiring and Tear-Inspiring
Authored by Abi Daré; Published August 2024; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ And So I Roar made me feel the whole spectrum of emotions. One moment I was laughing, the next crying, the next stirred with inspiration to do something, anything, to change the world. That’s one of the things that…
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Continue reading →: With Prejudice is a Little Too Gritty for Me
Authored by Robin Peguero; Published 2022; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I am not one for gritty, realistic crime dramas–a realization that I came to somewhere in the middle of this novel. While undoubtedly suspenseful, With Prejudice acknowledged the slow-paced reality of court cases today and the key unorthodox players that…
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Continue reading →: The Unmothers is Tense Horror
Authored by Leslie Anderson; Published August 2024; Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Is horror one of my favorite genres now? After decades of not watching a single horror film, just a few books have brought me closer to accepting this type of novel. The Unmothers is one of them. The Unmothers…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful Villain Borders on Fan Fiction
Authored by Rebecca Kennedy; Published July 2024; Fantasy, Romance ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I haven’t read a romantasy novel before that came off quite so much as fan fiction as this one—even Twilight. But, the best way I can describe Beautiful Villain is as The Great Gatsby fan fiction. Beautiful Villain…
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Continue reading →: Set On You is Romance with a Side of Body Positivity
Authored by Amy Lea; Published 2022; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There’s a certain charm to niche romance novels. Farmers falling in love at first sight? I’m sure it’s adorable. Ice skating rivals turned lovers? Swoon. I happened to come upon Set On You, a rom com with strong gym rat…
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Continue reading →: Six Days in Bombay is a Dreamy European Vacation
Authored by Alka Joshi; Published March 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There is something dreamy about the idea of discovering oneself in a weeks-long journey through the famous old cities of Europe. But, it’s not necessarily something I would expect for an Indian-English nurse in the 1930s—yet this is…
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Continue reading →: This Book Will Bury Me is a Warning for True Crime Buffs
Authored by Ashley Winstead; Published March 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ This Book Will Bury Me came off as a dramatic, even death-bed-level confession. Listening to it as an audio book was the perfect vehicle to ingest the narrator’s vulnerable but passionate explanations of how she had gotten to where…
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Continue reading →: Two Nights in Lisbon Will Make You Feel the Tension
Authored by Chris Pavone; Published 2022; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I devoured Two Nights in Lisbon in barely more than a day. As the story unfolded, I found my shoulders rising closer and closer to my ears. The heroine’s anxiety became my anxiety, and I couldn’t help but think: what…
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Continue reading →: Crush is More Traditional Than It Seems
Authored by Adele Calhoun; Published February 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ For a novel centered on polyamory, Crush was a little more traditional than I expected. In fact, it defied many of my expectations and managed to deliver a reasonably happy love story. In Crush, the narrator is a successful…
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