Category: Book Reviews
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Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder
Thank you so much to Crown Publishing and Hogarth Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles…
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Review: EAGLE & CRANE by Suzanne Rindell
Many thanks to Putnam Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Louis Thorn and Haruto “Harry” Yamada — Eagle and Crane — are the star attractions of Earl Shaw’s Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated…
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Review: HOW TO BE FAMOUS by Caitlin Moran
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for…
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Review: SORORITY by Genevieve Sly Crane
Thank you so much to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that hold sisters together in a sacred bond of everlasting trust. Certain chaste images spring to mind when one thinks of sororities. But make no mistake: these women are…
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Blog Tour & Review: BABY TEETH by Zoje Stage
Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Press for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with…
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Blog Tour & Review: SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by David Bell
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: When Michael Frazier’s ex-wife, Erica, unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep, she drops a bombshell that threatens to rip his family apart: Her ten-year-old daughter is missing–and Michael is the father. Unsure whether this is the…
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Synopsis & Excerpt: SAFE HOUSES by Dan Fesperman
Many thanks again to Knopf and Abby for the free copy! There is a giveaway running on my Instagram page for one finished copy – hurry over there to check it out! Book Description: West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA’s network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst…
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Blog Tour & Review: THE LAST TIME I LIED by Riley Sager
Thank you very much to Dutton for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the…
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Blog Tour & Review: SAFE HOUSES by Dan Fesperman
Thank you so much Knopf and Abby from Crime by the Book for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. About the Book: West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA’s network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst…
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Review: WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Thank you so much Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a…