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Nov 21

Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch

In the first book of Blake Crouch's haunting mystery trilogy, secret agent Ethan Burke tries to grasp the shifts in time, widespread...

Aug 16

Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

You Had Me at "Time Travel" I love a time-travel story in any genre, and this Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light...

Jun 6

Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

The Other Valley is literary fiction with a captivating setup: three adjacent valleys, each of which is a different timeline of the same...

May 22

Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...

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...

Nov 28, 2023

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, 2023

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...

Oct 26, 2023

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...

Sep 22, 2023

Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

More Time-Travel Adventures I love a book that plays with time--the possibilities of trying things a different way, the second chances,...

Sep 12, 2023

Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

Lepucki's strange, interesting time-travel novel centers around betrayal, broken hearts, second chances, and the power of hate--and of...

Sep 5, 2023

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, 2023

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,...

May 26, 2023

Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

You Had Me at "Time Travel" I love a time-travel story in any genre. This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light...

May 17, 2023

Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep...

Dec 15, 2022

Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

A.G. Riddle's time-travel story centers around reconciling the inability to change what has already occurred, but the necessity of doing...

Sep 15, 2022

Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones

Much of the book involves thwarted attempts to unravel the past by a main protagonist who has been emotionally destroyed by trauma and...

Mar 25, 2022

Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

The Time-Travel Books What are your favorite time-travel books? I had trouble narrowing down this list, and I love a time-travel book in...

Mar 11, 2022

Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

The Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the...

Jul 23, 2021

Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

The Second-Chance Books I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again, redo...

Mar 3, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition

What I'm Reading Now Here's what I've got going at the moment: a dark, intriguing story of interconnectedness between unusual characters;...

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