Category: Book Reviews
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Review: SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY by Rachel Lyon
Thank you so much to Scribner for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “What enraged me is that they didn’t, couldn’t, see me. I was less than a machine to them, less than a body. I did not even appear in their line of sight. I was nothing more than a…
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Blog Tour Review: WARNING LIGHT by David Ricciardi
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for asking me to be a part of the blog tour and proving my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When a commercial flight violates restricted airspace to make an emergency landing at a closed airport in Iran, the passengers are just happy to…
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Review: BLACK SWANS by Eve Babitz
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Blurb: A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s―decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing…
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Review: OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy of OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman – all opinions are my own. “She’d read somewhere that hurricanes had winds so powerful that a piece of straw could pierce an oak, thrown so hard it became deadly beyond its weight. She was the…
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Review: A MATTER OF CHANCE by Julie Maloney
Thank you so much to the author and She Writes Press for providing my free copy of A MATTER OF CHANCE by Julie Maloney – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for her daughter. Maddy’s…
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Review: BEFORE I LET YOU GO by Kelly Rimmer
Thank you so much to Little Bird Publicity, Graydon House, and Harlequin Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “…just like love—in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain—it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s…
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Review: COVE by Cynan Jones
Thank you so much Catapult for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “He’d had to go through so many possessions, things that exploded smally with memories over the last few weeks; but it was the opposite with the ashes. He was trying to hold away the fact that they knew nothing…
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Blog Tour Review: IN PLAIN SIGHT by Kathryn Casey
Thank you so much to William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Eric didn’t talk to me about running for office. I didn’t think it was a good idea. It worried me because Eric doesn’t play well with others, unless the others do what he wants” –Kim Williams Book…
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Review: DIGGING IN by Loretta Nyhan
Thank you so much to Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade—and lost him two years ago. Since his death, she’s been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son. Her house is…
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Review: EVENING PRIMROSE by Kopano Matlwa
Thank you so much to Quercus for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Sometimes I want to feel stuff. I’m doing a resuscitation and I know I should feel something, but I don’t know how to anymore. There’s something in me that’s blocked, that’s stuck. There’s a weight on my chest,…