

Review of In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
In a Holidaze is a romantic holiday time twist with sexy interludes and a reliably happy ending. Twentysomething Mae is spending the...
Dec 23, 2020


Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Addie grapples with what it means to only be able to whisper in the world rather than shout. What is the value of a life that must be...
Dec 21, 2020


Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...
Dec 16, 2020


Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and...
Dec 15, 2020


Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...
Dec 9, 2020


Review of The Course of All Treasons: An Elizabethan Spy Mystery by Suzanne M. Wolfe
Nick is an appealing character, I adored the detailed setting, and the mystery's resolution makes sense without seeming too easy. I'm...
Dec 8, 2020


Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. In The Unhoneymooners, unlucky Olive is...
Dec 7, 2020


Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Lu offers complex motivations, clashes between idealism and realism, editorialization about class and race, and futuristic advancements...
Dec 1, 2020


Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view. In...
Nov 30, 2020


Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King
King immerses the reader in a sometimes-claustrophobic situation while providing enough character connection and appealingly messy...
Nov 24, 2020


Review of The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy
Valpy's detailed Scottish setting and character development are wonderful, and I was equally invested in and engaged by both of the...
Nov 23, 2020


Review of Fable by Adrienne Young
I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine, a little romance, and lots of...
Nov 18, 2020


Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying everything. It's...
Nov 16, 2020


Review of One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
One to Watch is engrossing escapism into a world of reality TV, romantic possibilities, and luxurious fashion, where things don't always...
Nov 12, 2020


Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
With lots of engrossing gymnastics details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was the engrossing, light fiction book I...
Nov 9, 2020


Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Zhang's detail was wonderful, and her characters make noble sacrifices and face impossible choices. The book's frequent heartbreak was a...
Nov 4, 2020


Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout...
Nov 2, 2020


Review of The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Many of her characters find themselves in despairingly difficult situations, but Kline offers glimmers of hope as well.
Oct 28, 2020


Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover the truth to save Autumn.
Oct 27, 2020


Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts reflects upon her identity and place in the world in a raw and genuine way that I found gripping. Keena Roberts grew up splitting...
Oct 26, 2020
