

Review of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working class disparities, the eventual...
Oct 9, 2024


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 24, 2024


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 28, 2024


Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Grant's thriller is set in the wilds of Idaho, with a wilderness expert of a main character who has fought to trust others and be...
Jun 18, 2024


Review of Wellness by Nathan Hill
Flawed main characters Jack and Elizabeth try to find their way back to an emotional connection in this literary fiction work. Wellness...
Jun 11, 2024


Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Only If You're Lucky centers around a group of South Carolina college students who don't truly know each other--and the unpleasant...
May 14, 2024


Review of None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell's haunting psychological thriller centers around birthday twins, an unreliable narrator, disparate lifestyles, and dark...
May 7, 2024


Review of Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
I loved Johnson's first book set in this complex, futuristic, postapocalyptic world of conflicting classes and disparate privilege, but...
May 2, 2024


Review of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
ICYMI: Lauren Groff explores the secrets, lies, and different lived experiences of spouses in a decades-long marriage in this...
Feb 29, 2024


Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...
Jan 23, 2024


Review of The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman
Hoffman's novel is about facing dark realities, entering uncharted territory, leaning on music as a solace, and welcoming new beginnings....
Jun 13, 2023


Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn
The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her own heritage, flexes her newfound...
Jun 8, 2023


Review of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Garmus's debut is witty and smart, heartbreaking, infuriating, and lovely. Lessons in Chemistry explores deep issues, conflict, and dark...
Aug 23, 2022


Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
In The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh offers a twisty contemporary fiction novel and psychological thriller centered around a fascinating...
May 25, 2022


Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner
The heart of the mystery the emotionally tortured Frankie uncovers in the wilds of Wyoming in One Step Too Far includes heart-stopping...
Feb 15, 2022


Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and it ends in a satisfying whirl of...
Feb 9, 2022