Category: Literary Fiction
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Book Mail: CATALINA by Liska Jacobs
First of all, this cover is GORGEOUS! It has a lovely, soft texture too. Thank you so much to the fabulous FSG Originals for sending me a free copy! I cannot wait to review this one! SYNOPSIS: Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from…
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Counterpoint Press Book Mail: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman & BLACK SWANS by Eve Babitz
Hello gorgeous covers!! They are both so beautiful and sound amazing!! Thank you to the kind and generous Counterpoint Press for sending me these free advance copies! I’ve already read one of them and loved it so much! I will post both reviews closer to the publication date, so stay turned! I will list the…
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Review: RED CLOCKS by Leni Zumas
Can I just say how much I love being a Little Brown Ambassador?!! Thank you so much to Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. This novel is outstanding! I have not read another book like this. Yes, it’s feminist—in the sense that these women rule their…
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Review: OLIVER LOVING by Stefan Merrill Block
Thank you so much to the wonderful Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Survival was not a story you could tell. Survival was the telling, and that was the burden and the gift of living.” This is a heartbreaking story that takes place in a Texas town about…
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Review: GRIST MILL ROAD by Christopher J. Yates
Thank you so much to Picador for providing my free advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and…
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Review: NEON IN DAYLIGHT by Hermione Hoby
Thank you so much to Catapult for sending me a free copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has…
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Review: HEATHER, THE TOTALITY by Matthew Weiner
Thank you so much to Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “She was radiant with life, even when she was alone, or thought she was.” My Review: Mark and Karen Breakstone met and married at age 40 so when they had a daughter, Heather, she became…
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MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 (excluding thrillers)
I was lucky enough to read some INCREDIBLE books this year! All of these books resonated with me in a big way! I look forward to all of the AMAZING books I get to read in 2018! Did you read a book that you could not stop thinking about? Spot any favorites pictured here? I’ll…
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SPECTACULAR BOOK MAIL FROM FLATIRON!
I hope you all are having a great Monday! Any day is a great day for reading so I’m over-the-moon excited for these lovely books! Thank you so very much to Flatiron Books for these free copies!! Check out these amazing book descriptions below – SOMETIMES I LIE by Alice Feeney (out 3/23/18) – My name is…
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Review: CASTLE OF WATER by Dane Huckelbridge
I read this novel SO incredibly fast. It was so beautiful and the writing was EXQUISITE. “And there, amid the blue honey water and white sugar sands and wide-open smiles, of the native Polynesians, he knows he has finally found the place- not where he wants to die, but, rather, where he wants to live.”…