Category: Book Reviews
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Review: THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn
“Hope was such a painful thing, far more painful than rage.” Summary: 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared…
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Review: ARE YOU SLEEPING by Kathleen Barber
Thank you so much to Gallery Books for this free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Summary: The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family’s reputation and with good reason. After her father’s…
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Review: WHITE FUR by Jardine Libaire
Summary: When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn’t graduate from high school; Jamey is…
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Review: GOODBYE, VITAMIN By Rachel Khong
Summary: Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically…
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Review: WILDE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you to William Morrow for providing me with this free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Luisa “Lu” Brant is the newly elected state’s attorney representing suburban Maryland—including the famous planned community of Columbia, created to be a utopia of racial and economic equality. Prosecuting a controversial case involving a disturbed drifter…
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Review: EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE by Mindy Mejia
Thank you to Atria Books for providing my free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she’s…
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Review: TOUCH by Courtney Maum
Summary: Sloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated, and with unemployment, college costs, and food prices all…
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Review: INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins
“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day.” Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage…