BBW Book Reviews 7/40

Dec 21, 2023

Review of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

Dec 19, 2023

Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

Dec 14, 2023

Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

Dec 13, 2023

Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...

Dec 12, 2023

Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...

Dec 7, 2023

Review of The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

ICYMI: The Winter Soldier is a World War I tale full of medical details and lovely, unlikely bonds. This is a five-star read from the...

Dec 6, 2023

Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...

Dec 5, 2023

Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

Nov 30, 2023

Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss of human connection, and...

Nov 29, 2023

Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

Yarros's experience as a romance author remains showcased in book two through teen-angst-dramaaatic, romaaantic dialogue. My favorite...

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 22, 2023

Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...

Nov 21, 2023

Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions, and...

Nov 16, 2023

Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Keegan turns her keen eye to the small moments that transform a life in this riveting short story collection. The settings range from the...

Nov 15, 2023

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her strategic swearing, her strength,...

Nov 14, 2023

Review of Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Falls is primarily an exploration of a complicated, loving, messy family and each...

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...

Nov 8, 2023

Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

In her memoir, Gupta explores the stressful, tragic disconnect between the "perfect minority" image her father demanded of the family and...

Nov 6, 2023

Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati

Sara Donati's historical fiction includes nods to Outlander and The Last of the Mohicans, considers the trials and adventures of a...

Nov 2, 2023

Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing oneself--with fascinating...

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