Thank you to Emily Carpenter and Lake Union Publishing for my free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades …
Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE by Matthew J. Sullivan
Summary (from Amazon): When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …