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Jun 22, 2020

Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.

Jun 19, 2020

Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

Jun 13, 2020

Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

This story imagines a wife for Jesus, questions gender roles, and offers adventure.

Jun 9, 2020

Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.

Jun 7, 2020

Review of This Is All He Asks of You by Anne Egseth

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.

Jun 3, 2020

Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

Sloane is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults.

May 26, 2020

Review of Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

Atlantic City before WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and hubbub, is the backdrop for this summer in the life of an extended family.

May 24, 2020

Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear arguments and a compelling story of her own.

May 14, 2020

Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich

In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.

May 14, 2020

Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.

May 13, 2020

Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin

Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.

May 11, 2020

Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances.

May 10, 2020

Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.

May 7, 2020

Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells

Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others and a desire to develop its own sense of duty and sense of self.

May 3, 2020

Review of Open Book by Jessica Simpson

A mostly guileless look at stardom, motherhood, alcohol abuse, and finding herself.

May 2, 2020

Review of Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically imagined world.

Apr 27, 2020

Review of Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

Brown kept me happily turning the pages to see who would get what was coming to them. Cross, double-cross! This book really hit the spot....

Apr 23, 2020

Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.

Apr 22, 2020

Review of The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

I loved the vivid setting and the strong women who find themselves in the middle of this early seventeenth century witch hunt.

Apr 20, 2020

Review of The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

Bea and her friends-like-family NYC network of loved ones, including her therapist Miriam, are endearing and wonderful.

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