BBW Book Reviews

3 days ago

Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I've Loved

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Science Fiction Reads I realize I just said this last week regarding mysteries, but really, doesn't the cold...

4 days ago

Review of Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl

ICYMI: Food critic and writer Ruth Reichl recounts her time at Gourmet magazine--the childhood reading of which had inspired her...

4 days ago

Review of A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated #1) by Danielle L. Jensen

The first in Jensen's fantasy series ticked many of my boxes--strong female main character, a tension-filled Chosen One premise, a fight...

5 days ago

Review of Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken

Aitken's story of a strong, crafty, fearless woman in 1200s Ireland is based upon the real figure of Alice Kyteler, whose power and...

Sep 26

Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

Sarah Rees Brennan offers a funny, dark, clever story within a story in which the heroes and villains are redefined, redemption is always...

Sep 25

Review of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

Smith's historical fiction story in two timelines equally powerfully evokes the bleak Dutch winters of the 17th century and grimy,...

Sep 24

Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway

The historical fiction story about the building of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, had a romantic element that was...

Sep 19

Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass

In the third Emma Makepeace novel, British spy Emma goes rogue in order to save world leaders and prevent an assassination at the hands...

Sep 18

Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall

Among the Bros is a disturbing true story of increasing greed, shocking carelessness with human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and...

Sep 17

Review of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

I'm intrigued by a missing-persons story, and I'm a fan of Emiko Jean's writing. The Return of Ellie Black was a disturbing setup...

Sep 12

Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War. In Let Us Descend , she leans on the...

Sep 11

Review of Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran

I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction conversations between Maria von Trapp and an assistant to...

Sep 10

Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

This historical fiction story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled from...

Sep 5

Review of Burn by Peter Heller

I love Peter Heller's books, and Burn offers a wonderfully complicated friendship, meaningful connections to nature, momentous secrets,...

Sep 4

Review of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Thorpe's irresistible character of 19-year-old Margo discovers her strength, drive, creativity, and vulnerability after becoming...

Sep 3

Review of James by Percival Everett

Percival Everett's James is a fascinating retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of enslaved Black character...

Aug 29

Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

The Paradise Problem is the perfect light fiction read to close out the summer, with a high-stakes fake marriage, comeuppances for the...

Aug 28

Review of Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout examines the range of characters from her many books and their intersecting stories, their imperfections, and their...

Aug 27

Review of Moonbound by Robin Sloan

The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never quite gelling into a coherent tale I...

Aug 22

Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

A leviathan lurks in the ocean, threatening destruction on a grand scale, while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart...

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