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Every Thursday, I will post a new book review here. Check back for the latest reads.

  • The Golden Couple: Contrived and underwhelming

    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.

  • Water for Elephants: Captivating and well-written

    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.

  • Iron Flame: A mid sequel

    Iron Flame: A mid sequel

    Book 2 in the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros.

  • A Study in Drowning: Entertaining but predictable

    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.

  • We Are the Light: Emotional and hopeful

    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.

  • Little Women: Sweet as a toothache

    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.

  • Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Book 2): A charming sequel

    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.

  • A Curious Beginning: A romantic mystery

    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.

  • The Tainted Cup: A fantasy detective story

    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.

  • Station Eleven: The microcosms at the end of the world

    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…

  • The Four Winds: Depressing and enlightening

    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).

  • Weyward: Witchy feminine rage

    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.

  • The Silent Patient: Solid audiobook

    The Silent Patient: Solid audiobook

    Theo, a criminal psychotherapist, is determined to unravel the mystery of Alicia Berenson, a patient locked up for murder who refuses to speak – even in her own defense.

  • A Fate Inked in Blood: Action-packed romantasy fun

    A Fate Inked in Blood: Action-packed romantasy fun

    After Freya is forced to reveal that she has a drop of Goddess’s blood — marking her as the legendary shield maiden — she must fight to unite a nation while learning to control her magic. At the same time, she must resist her attraction to another of the God-blessed. Otherwise, she risks everything she’s…

  • Call the Canaries Home: Not what I expected, but not bad

    Call the Canaries Home: Not what I expected, but not bad

    Three estranged sisters convene at their Meemaw’s house for a weekend, where they must confront their differences as they try to understand the decades-old disappearance of their fourth sister.

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