Category: Book Reviews
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Review: PROVIDENCE by Caroline Kepnes
Thank you so much to Random House and Lenny Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense that it borders on the mystical. But before Jon can declare his love for his soul mate, he…
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Blog Tour Review: TELL ME LIES by Carola Lovering
Thank you so much Atria Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college, and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom she’s never forgiven for an act of…
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Review: ROBIN by Dave Izkoff
BIG thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets…
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Review: BRING ME BACK by B.A. Paris
Thank you so much St Martin’s Press for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They’re driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the…
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Review: THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer
Thank you so much to the wonderful people Riverhead Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of…
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Review: THERE THERE by Tommy Orange
Many thanks to Alfred Knopf for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left…
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Review: A PLACE FOR US by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Thank you so much Crown Publishing and Hogarth Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. Book Description: As an Indian wedding gathers a family…
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Review: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton
Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them… They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when…
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Review: THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY by Ruth Ware
Many thanks to Gallery Books for my free copy of THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY by Ruth Ware – all opinions are my own. Book Description: On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the…
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Review: DON’T BELIEVE IT by Charlie Donlea
Thank you so much Kensington Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history–a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring…