Category: Book Reviews
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Review: WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT by Sandra Block
Thank you so much Sourcebooks for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what’s worse ― her memory of the attack has…
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Review: SUICIDE CLUB by Rachel Heng
Many thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Lea studied the lines of his face. In them she saw again every expression he had ever made–every smile and frown and sigh–saw how they jostled for room on the canvas of his skin, how they’d etched their fleeting…
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Review: IF YOU SEE ME, DON’T SAY HI by Neel Patel
Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will…
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Review: THE BOOK OF ESSIE by Meghan MacLean Weir
Many many thanks to Knopf for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Esther Ann Hicks–Essie–is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She’s grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family’s fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant,…
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Blog Tour & Review: THE ANCIENT NINE by Ian Smith
Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for inviting me to participate in the blog tour and my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Spenser Collins is an unlikely Harvard prospect and Dalton Winthrop is a white-shoe legacy at Harvard. The two find enough common ground to become friends, cementing their bond when Spenser is “punched”…
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Blog Tour & Review: IN HER BONES by Kate Moretti
Thank you so very much to Atria Books for inviting me to participate in the blog tour! As always, all opinions are my own. My Review: Last year I read THE BLACKBIRD SEASON and fell in love with Moretti’s writing style. Well folks, she’s done it again! Lilith Wade was convicted and sentenced to death…
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Blog Tour & Review: I’D RATHER BE READING by Anne Bogel
Many thanks to the wonderful Anne Bogel and Baker Books for providing my free copy – all are my own. About the Book: For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or a way to pass the time–it’s a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us.…
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Blog Tour & Review: PUTNEY by Sofka Zinovieff
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realize it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled.” Description: A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s,…
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TLC Book Tours Review: ANOTHER WOMAN’S HUSBAND by Gill Paul
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours and William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In 1911, fifteen-year-old Mary Kirk meets Wallis Warfield at summer camp, she’s immediately captivated by her fearless, brazen, and self-assured personality. And Wallis has a way with the boys who are drawn to…
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Review: SHE WAS THE QUIET ONE by Michele Campbell
Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New England boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different.…