Bossy Bookworm Book Reviews

3 days ago

Review of The Levee by William Kent Krueger

William Kent Krueger's writing is beautiful, and J.D. Jackson reads the audiobook wonderfully, but I felt impatient with the focus on...

4 days ago

Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...

5 days ago

Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely, heartbreaking, and that brought...

Mar 16

Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...

Mar 15

Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...

Mar 14

Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island off the coast of Maine,...

Mar 9

Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...

Mar 8

Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...

Mar 7

Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...

Mar 2

Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

ICYMI: This five-star retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin offers kickass female protagonists, haunting twists and turns, wonderful,...

Mar 1

Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency; explores...

Feb 28

Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees

The early story captured my attention with ballet, an orphan's struggles, and Depression-era Chicago, but once Nocturne shifted into dark...

Feb 23

Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...

Feb 22

Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Newman offers a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to friendship that centers around witty dialogue, unconventional arrangements,...

Feb 21

Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as her characters alternately dive...

Feb 16

Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long

The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Remy and Sena to a storm-wracked...

Feb 15

Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's searches for body autonomy in three timelines of interconnected characters and...

Feb 14

Review of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Kapoor's gritty New Delhi-set novel explores brutal violence and cruelties in an exploration of class divides and the destructive power...

Feb 9

Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

If you can focus on the good qualities of the prominent (and giant...and talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find...

Feb 8

Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Sex educator Nagoski offers a practical, science-based, informative, nonjudgmental exploration of various women's experiences with their...

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