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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...

Nov 14

Review of Bull Moon Rising (Royal Artifactual Guild #1) by Ruby Dixon

I was hooked on the story of a team of young women fighting for admittance to a guild, their bonds, and their adventures. But the...

Nov 13

Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock

Blaylock's story centers around a packhorse librarian in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky and adds layers like a complicated past, second...

Oct 29

Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

Booth cushions the blow of the main protagonist's early-onset Alzheimer's with a zany romp, lots of love for books, and heartwarming,...

Oct 23

Review of The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

The reality-show setting and LGBTQIA+ representation in Ever After flips the traditional fairy tale in satisfying, heartwarming ways in...

Oct 22

Review of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

The gems of What I Ate in One Year are, as promised in the title, the food-related moments Stanley Tucci delves into over the course of...

Oct 17

Review of Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron

I felt like the story started off slowly, but once the world was built and the background established, I was hooked on the interpersonal...

Oct 8

Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

The Paris Novel is the first novel by food writer, memoir author, food critic, and James Beard award-winner Ruth Reichl. It's a...

Sep 19

Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass

In the third Emma Makepeace novel, British spy Emma goes rogue in order to save world leaders and prevent an assassination at the hands...

Sep 18

Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall

Among the Bros is a disturbing true story of increasing greed, shocking carelessness with human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and...

Sep 12

Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War. In Let Us Descend , she leans on the...

Sep 10

Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

This historical fiction story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled from...

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 27

Review of Moonbound by Robin Sloan

The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never quite gelling into a coherent tale I...

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 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 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...

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 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...

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