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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,...

Aug 15

Review of Bear by Julia Phillips

The author of Disappearing Earth offers a story of bleak prospects, poverty and illness, a sister bond with fault lines ready to crack...

Aug 14

Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

Ready or Not is a light take on unplanned pregnancy. It felt so easy for Eve to plan to enter into single parenthood despite the many...

Aug 6

Review of The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore

Laurie Devore's novel goes behind the scenes of a reality dating show, complete with sordid details, manipulation, and manufactured...

Jun 26

Review of The Rule Book by Sarah Adams

This love story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance romance...

Jun 18

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...

May 2

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...

Apr 24

Review of This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

ICYMI: Frankel's storyline is powerful, important, and poignant, and the deep love, support, and acceptance within the family in This Is...

Apr 17

Review of Queens of London by Heather Webb

Queens of London is fascinating historical fiction that explores the gritty underbelly of post-World War I London through the points of...

Apr 10

Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

The shallow, emotionally stunted character of Doug made my blood boil. His base desires stood in contrast to Annie's unanticipated...

Mar 21

Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

ICYMI: I love Geraldine Brooks's stories, and I was intrigued by the detail, the meticulous research behind the tale, and the inspiration...

Mar 12

Review of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis

The gothic story King Nyx offers haunting imagery, sinister mysteries, unreliable memories, resurfacing past trauma, missing persons,...

Mar 7

Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

Young mom Annie's abrupt death leaves her four children, husband, and best friend reeling. Each of them must find a way back to...

Mar 6

Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The mystery bookends feel largely unimportant to the story, the cast of characters sometimes feels endless, and the story meanders, but...

Feb 29

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 28

Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen

A former CIA operative retires to small-town Maine--along with other former agents--to live out a quiet existence, until figures from the...

Feb 27

Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick

In Erlick's debut novel, each adult in the world can know the length of their life if they choose to. The story's turns may not feel like...

Feb 15

Review of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school nemeses against each other: one relentless perfectionist and people-pleaser and...

Feb 8

Review of System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells

System Collapse provides more of SecUnit's emotional coping with PTSD than action, and I missed the faster pacing of other books, but I...

Jan 31

Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

Come and Get It is the story of an RA and the consequences of her actions related to privacy and safety; the book dabbles in issues of...

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