Three-Star Book Review

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Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...

Nov 29

Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

Yarros's experience as a romance author remains showcased in book two through teen-angst-dramaaatic, romaaantic dialogue. My favorite...

Nov 28

Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

I loved the premise of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school nemesis. Some of the small moments didn't...

Nov 9

Review of Secondhand Daylight by Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook

Although the first section felt manic and uneven as Green hurtled through time, the second point of view offered lovely perspective on...

Nov 8

Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

In her memoir, Gupta explores the stressful, tragic disconnect between the "perfect minority" image her father demanded of the family and...

Oct 26

Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the...

Oct 19

Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

In Evil Eye, Etaf Rum (author of A Woman Is No Man) considers a small-town North Carolina artist, mother, and wife struggling with the...

Oct 3

Review of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

Despite the many outlandish details of Iris's situation and ongoing secrets, I was taken with the sweet family relationships and the...

Sep 26

Review of Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

The slim novel Blue Hour explores ambivalence about motherhood, unflinching details of the experience of miscarriage, relationship...

Sep 7

Review of One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying #3) by Karen M. McManus

This third book in McManus's young-adult mystery series keeps the surprises coming, ties new twists into early events from the series,...

Sep 6

Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard

Niall Howard's debut is a noir story about the underbelly of life in a post-World-War-II circus, with a disgruntled clown, formerly a...

Sep 5

Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

I loved the aunt-niece bond, the peeks into the NYC worlds of publishing and restaurants, and the playing with time. I was irritated by...

Aug 30

Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist in an impossible situation,...

Aug 24

Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

Katlia's story is based on actual events, detailing the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastating consequences of greed, the...

Aug 16

Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros

The first in this dragon rider series by Yarros is full of dramaaaaatic teen angst, a cutthroat path to becoming a warrior, bucking...

Aug 10

Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

David Joy's mystery, Those We Thought We Knew, set in the North Carolina mountains, explores issues of racism, corruption, generational...

Jul 27

Review of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

I couldn't get past the holes in the premise of this lighthearted, romantic, zany rom-com long enough to buy into the story of an artist...

Jul 12

Review of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Adjei-Brenyah's novel explores in disturbing detail a version of a society that may feel familiar: a corrupt, greedy prison system; the...

Jul 6

Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's lives and destinies become...

Jul 5

Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood's light fiction novel is wonderfully immersed in science, offering a forbidden relationship and an enemies-to-lovers...

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