Category: Book Reviews
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Review: ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL by Sarah Vaughan
Thank you so much to the amazing Atria Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “If there was a crime worse than being bright, it was failing to disguise the fact under layers of sarcasm and thick mascara. At her school, the overriding aim was to get a boyfriend, and…
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Review: I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH by Alicia Drake
I’m so incredibly grateful to Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Who’s César?’ ‘He’s my dog, only he’s more than a dog, he’s super-intelligent and he knows all my feelings, all my secrets.” Paul is thirteen, lives in Paris, and is constantly shuffled back and forth…
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Review: THE WIFE by Alafair Burke
Thank you so much to the fabulous Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “In an instant, I became the woman they assumed I’d been all along: the wife who lied to protect her husband.” This book rocked my world! I LOVED it with a capital LOVE! It is…
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Mini Book Review: HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
“I called her two days later, never having believed more firmly in love at first sight, in destiny. When she laughed on the other end of the line, something inside of me cracked open, and I let her step inside.” I could not stop thinking about this mysterious collection of short stories! This was Belletrist’s…
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Review: RED CLOCKS by Leni Zumas
Can I just say how much I love being a Little Brown Ambassador?!! Thank you so much to Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. This novel is outstanding! I have not read another book like this. Yes, it’s feminist—in the sense that these women rule their…
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Review: THE CHALK MAN by C.J. Tudor
Thank you so much to Crown Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Better to be a fool than an angel.” I really enjoyed this book! As soon as I read the gruesome opening, I was hooked. It was very different than what I expected but not in a bad…
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Review: OLIVER LOVING by Stefan Merrill Block
Thank you so much to the wonderful Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Survival was not a story you could tell. Survival was the telling, and that was the burden and the gift of living.” This is a heartbreaking story that takes place in a Texas town about…
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Review: THE END WE START FROM by Megan Hunter
Thank you so much to Grove Atlantic for providing my free copy! I first heard of this book from @belletrist and knew I had to read it! “Our city is here, somewhere, but we are not. We are all untied, is the thing. Untethered, floating, drifting, all these things. And the end, the tether, the…
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Review: UNSUB by Meg Gardiner
I read this last year with Instagram’s @criminallygoodbookclub and it did not disappoint! This is one FANTASTIC thriller! Heart-pounding, pulse-racing, and nightmare-inducing and I loved every bit of it!! Meg Gardiner has mad skills! In the 1990’s, Caitlin Hendrix and her family lived in fear while a serial killer called the Prophet roamed the streets.…
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Review: GRIST MILL ROAD by Christopher J. Yates
Thank you so much to Picador for providing my free advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and…