

Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was smiling at all of it in delight....
Mar 18, 2021


Review of Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter
I wished that the book had more fully explored the cycle of prediction and realization that lies at the heart of its premise. In the...
Mar 16, 2021


Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Each life Nora tries on changes her in some way, whether by erasing her regrets about a path not taken, showing her that she's capable of...
Mar 4, 2021


Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya
Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...
Mar 1, 2021


Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
01 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...
Feb 12, 2021


Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Newlyweds Sam and Annie haven't known each other long. They realize their whole lives could be shattered as the lies they've been telling...
Feb 11, 2021


Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
In case you missed it: Aimee Molloy's page-turner is a quick read with a major--if manipulative-feeling--plot twist. The characters in...
Feb 10, 2021


Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The interconnectedness of the characters and the details of household life and power structures of the time period were wonderful and the...
Feb 3, 2021


Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen
The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...
Feb 1, 2021


Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...
Jan 29, 2021


Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...
Jan 22, 2021


Review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle
I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...
Jan 12, 2021


Six 2020 Mysteries for You to Check Out
01 The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi Alex Pavesi's The Eighth Detective is appealingly old-fashioned. The murder mystery stories were...
Jan 8, 2021


Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The characters aren't deeply developed, but twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery reading...
Jan 4, 2021


Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli
In the story of tragic Carlota, each turn of events was more ill-fated and darker than the next, all barreling toward ruin and...
Dec 28, 2020


Review of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery, the first...
Dec 24, 2020


Review of In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
In a Holidaze is a romantic holiday time twist with sexy interludes and a reliably happy ending. Twentysomething Mae is spending the...
Dec 23, 2020


Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...
Dec 16, 2020


Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. In The Unhoneymooners, unlucky Olive is...
Dec 7, 2020


Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view. In...
Nov 30, 2020