BBW Book Reviews 3/40

Aug 22

Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

A leviathan lurks in the ocean, threatening destruction on a grand scale, while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart...

Aug 21

Review of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea #1) by Hafsah Faizal

The first installment in Faizal's Blood and Tea series offers intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming...

Aug 20

Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

Megan E. O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict, shifting loyalties,...

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 13

Review of The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is a historical fiction art-focused mystery told in two timelines. I found the story immensely...

Aug 8

Review of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

Wilson overcame tough childhood circumstances before setting her sights on becoming a performer, and her memoir celebrates her...

Aug 7

Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls

David Nicholls's characters, some of whom are strangers to each other, meander through the English countryside on a days-long jaunt--and...

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...

Aug 1

Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

Amor Towles revisits a character from the wonderful Rules of Civility and also offers multiple New York-set tales. Towles's evocative...

Jul 31

Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

Grey Dog begins as an immersive historical fiction story of a young teacher with a shocking past in 1900s rural England, but it becomes a...

Jul 30

Review of In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other in the trenches serves as...

Jul 25

Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the Warsaw Ghetto to her second act...

Jul 24

Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Sandwich is another case of beautifully wrought complications and mutual adoration from Catherine Newman, with unapologetically...

Jul 23

Review of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Whitaker offers several interconnected storylines, and while each one individually appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to...

Jun 27

Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma to get the piano of an eccentric...

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 25

Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

Katherine Center offers a writing-focused story in which forced proximity, past secrets, complicated life circumstances, and a fear of...

Jun 20

Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

ICYMI: Towles's closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times playful,...

Jun 19

Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

ICYMI: The post-Depression-era city of New York is such a powerful presence in this story, it feels like a main character. I was taken by...

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