Category: Contemporary
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Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder
Thank you so much to Crown Publishing and Hogarth Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description:Ā Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles…
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Review: HOW TO BE FAMOUS by Caitlin Moran
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description:Ā Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for…
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Review: PLAYING WITH MATCHES by Hannah Orenstein
Thanks so much Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up…
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Review: I LIKED MY LIFE by Abby Fabiaschi
Thanks so much to Get Red PR and St. Martin’s Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone…
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Blog Tour Review: TELL ME LIES by Carola Lovering
Thank you so much Atria Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own.Ā Summary: Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college, and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom sheās never forgiven for an act of…
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Review: THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer
Thank you so much to the wonderful people Riverhead Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of…
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Review: THE ENSEMBLE by Aja Gabel
Thank you so much Riverhead Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family…
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Review: THE FAVORITE SISTER by Jessica Knoll
Thank you so much Simon & Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City calledĀ Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murderā¦ Brett’s the fan favorite. Tattooed and only…
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Mini Review: ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman
āI do not light up a room when I walk into it. No one longs to see me or hear my voice. I do not feel sorry for myself, not in the least. These are simply statements of fact.ā ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE is one of my favorite books from last year! I first…
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Mini Review: THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid
THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO is PHENOMENAL. It has everything from brilliant writing, to well developed characters, to scandal, to mystery, to intrigue, with an outstanding plot. I loved every page and I actually cried, which I never do! I fell head over heels in love with this book, so of course, I immediately…