Category: Book Reviews
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Review: GOOD ME BAD ME by Ali Land
This was Instagram’s Criminally Good Book Club’s pick for July and it did not disappoint!! New name. New family. Shiny. New. Me. Summary: Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start:…
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Review: CICADA SUMMER by Maureen Leurck
Thank you so much to Maureen Leurck and Kensington for providing me with a free finished copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she’s bought and renovated since her divorce almost three…
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Review: THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY by Cherise Wolas
Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for this advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary (from Amazon): These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by Joan Ashby, a brilliant and intense literary sensation acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by…
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Review: DEAD WOMAN WALKING by Sharon Bolton
Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for providing a free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the…
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Review: BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
Summary: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee…
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Review: EDEN by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Summary: Becca Meister Fitzpatrick―wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community―is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s…
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Review: SEX AND RAGE by Eve Babitz
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.” Summary: We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She’s a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man…
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Review: HE SAID/SHE SAID by Erin Kelly
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Minotaur Books for this free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. “If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all.” Summary: In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to…
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Review: WEIGHT OF LIES by Emily Carpenter
Thank you to Emily Carpenter and Lake Union Publishing for my free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker…
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Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE by Matthew J. Sullivan
Summary (from Amazon): When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among…