Category: Contemporary
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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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Review: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN by Jo Piazza
Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still reeling from a presidential election that…
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Review: THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero
Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In a dingy office in Fisherman’s Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one…
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Book Spotlight: IN THE MIDNIGHT ROOM by
Book Description: From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey…
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Blog Tour & Review: ALL YOUR PERFECTS by Colleen Hoover
Thank you so much to Atria Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them…
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Review: SAVING BECK by Courtney Cole
Thank you so much to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: There comes a time when offering your life for your child’s doesn’t work, when you realize that it’ll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at…
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Review: THE COLOR OF BEE LARKHAM’S MURDER by Sarah J. Harris
Thank you so much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart lives in a world of dazzling color that no one else can see, least of all his dad. Words, numbers, days of the week, people’s voices—everything has its own unique shade. But recently…
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Review: A THEORY OF LOVE by Margaret Bradham Thornton
Thank you so much to Ecco Books for this beautiful free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Helen Gibbs, a British journalist on assignment on the west coast of Mexico, meets Christopher Delavaux, an intriguing half-French, half-American lawyer-turned-financier who has come alone to surf. Living lives that never stop moving, from their first…
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Review: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown…