Every Thursday, I will post a new book review here. Check back for the latest reads.
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Throne of Glass: Full series review
This series follows a young assassin with a mysterious past who was raised by an infamous Assassin’s Guild leader. Everyone wants to use her unique skills for themselves – or otherwise eradicate the threat she poses. As she struggles for freedom, she is also forced to confront her deepest secrets.
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An Education in Malice: Atmospheric and vampiric
In this erotic horror retelling of “Carmilla” set in the 1960s, Laura is a new college student in St. Perpetua’s writing program, where she is swept up with the seductive and alluring Carmilla, a fellow student, and the professor she’s obsessed with.
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Bluebeard’s Castle: Subversive, but long
A gothic romance writer, Judith, finds herself swept up in a romance with a mysterious man named Gavin who feels like he came right out of one of her books, except it’s not quite what she expected. This is a story about what the reality of a “gothic romance” might look like.
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The Golden Couple: Contrived and underwhelming
An ex-therapist with a revoked license (who still does “consultations”) agrees to help a couple with their struggling marriage, but they’re hiding more lies than she initially thinks.
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Water for Elephants: Captivating and well-written
This story follows a man named Jacob at two different points in this life: when he’s 90 (or 93, he can’t remember) in a nursing home, and back when he joined a circus after a tragic loss in his 20s.
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Iron Flame: A mid sequel
Book 2 in the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros.
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A Study in Drowning: Entertaining but predictable
Effy, a freshman and the only girl in her college, is accepted to take on the daunting task of redesigning a mansion that pays homage to her favorite author – but things at Hiraeth Manor are stranger than she realized.
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We Are the Light: Emotional and hopeful
After a community is shaken by a violent tragedy, Lucas, who insists his deceased wife visits him as an angel, forms an unlikely bond with an ostracized young man who has decided to set up camp in Lucas’s backyard.
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Little Women: Sweet as a toothache
Little Women follows the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, as they grow up in the American Civil War era.
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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Book 2): A charming sequel
The prickly professor Emily Wilde is working on a new project, and is swept onto a new academic adventure to uncover the secrets of Faerie Doors with her former rival, Wendell Bambleby.
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A Curious Beginning: A romantic mystery
After a close call with an intruder, Veronica Speedwell is deposited with a curmudgeonly but handsome fellow scientist for safekeeping, where she must unravel the secrets of her lineage and find out who is out to get her.
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The Tainted Cup: A fantasy detective story
An assistant investigator must solve a string of murders involving trees exploding out of people, a powerful old family, and magical enhancements, all before leviathans destroy the sea wall.
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Station Eleven: The microcosms at the end of the world
When a flu pandemic kills the majority of humans in a short span of time, the ones who are left must contend with a new world. This story follows an interconnected web of people across the years before and after, from a Shakespeare actress in a traveling caravan to a former corporate professional now living…
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The Four Winds: Depressing and enlightening
This story follows Elsa as famine swallows her life and home, eventually forcing her to make the agonizing choice between staying on the farm (but facing unrelenting dust storms) or going west (but with no certainty of a better life for her and her children).
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Weyward: Witchy feminine rage
This story follows three women across five centuries who must take their destinies into their own hands. One is accused of witchcraft, one is locked inside her home, and one is on the run from her abusive partner.
