Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now

I've been having a wonderful beachy break, and these are the titles I've been reading:

• The Summer Guests, Tess Gerritsen's newest Martini Club offering, which centers around a mystery in small-town Maine and an investigation that the local ex-CIA agents can't resist involving themselves in;

• Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid's love story about astronauts in the 1980s;

• and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

What are you reading, bookworms?

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01 The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen

In book one of Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series, we met Maggie Bird, a retired CIA operative who has made a simple life for herself in rural Maine. At first she tried not to make emotional connections and kept to herself--old habits from her former life.

But unbeknownst to the other citizens in Purity, Maine, the town has drawn multiple former intelligence agents. Now they hold a monthly boozy book club dinner party and keep their eyes open for trouble. In The Summer Guests, they operate as a team to try to find a missing teen--both helping and annoying the new police chief, Jo Thibodeau, along the way.

This is the second book in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series. The first is The Spy Coast.

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02 Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Joan has always been fascinated by the stars, and as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, she teaches her passion to college students. On the side, she shows her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying single-mother sister.

When she sees an ad seeking for the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program, Joan becomes obsessed with being part of the 1980s training and with becoming one of the first women in space.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is also the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Daisy Jones & the Six.

You might also want to check out these other Bossy reviews of books about astronauts and space.

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03 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

Schwab's lesbian vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young woman named Maria makes choices to shield her from being a man's pawn and vessel for children until her death--then enters into a future she never could have imagined.

In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion results in her banishment to London society. There she encounters an intriguing widow with promises of freedom with deep repercussions.

And in 2019 Boston, Alice is trying to break out of her shell at college, and a one-night stand feels like a daring start. But the evening leaves her forever changed, and she's bent on finding answers--and revenge.

Schwab is also the author of The Fragile Threads of Power, Vengeful, and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, as well as the Shades of Magic series. (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows, each of which I gave four Bossy stars. You can check out my review of book 3, A Conjuring of Light, here.)