🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 The newest addition to an always wonderful series, this is Book 22 in the Dr Temperance Brennan series. In this edition Tempe finds herself transported from a grim but fairly routine examination of what appears to be a young drowning victim in her Montreal homebase, to assisting in the…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A feminist look at love, empowerment and body image, which has admirable intentions and several thoughtful and appealing elements but did not completely hit the mark for me. Abby is a plus-sized woman who has been treated shamefully by her mother (and likely others) since childhood. This part of…
🌟🌟🌟💫 Are we destined to follow in the footsteps (good or even evil) of our ancestors? An interesting premise, explored by this author, as we meet nine-year-old Kate Harmon, with her very complicated parentage, who happens to be the only witness to a horrific fatal event. An event which may…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A science fiction classic, and one that that so deserved a re-read. This story follows the journey of a somewhat naive envoy, Genly Ai, sent to broker an interplanetary alliance between a remote planet, Gethen, and Ekumen, a vital trade and intelligence collective of eighty-three planets. The planet Gethen,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Another interesting installment, this one Book 2 in the Detective Gaby Darin series. Taking the unusual route of reading these books out of order, this reader has still managed to enjoy the relationships and characters as we come to learn more about Gaby and her current team at North…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A harrowing true-life recounting of a perhaps lesser-known chapter in the bleakest time in human history. As we follow the lives of three women, beginning in the year 1939, we are introduced to three very different POVs surrounding the terrors and trials of WWII. Caroline Ferriday is a NYC…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A deep dive into the sublime and the unpleasant, the pretense of living large, and the sheer awfulness that may be hidden, under deceptively ‘normal’ exteriors. Each of the four main protagonists in this story, women all, three of them fortyish and one an octogenarian, have secrets to hide.…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absorbing and atmospheric tale of grief and loss, intermingled with both shame and blame, and the devastation wrought in its aftermath. Kieran, our third person POV narrator, is thirty years old, the father of a baby with his loving partner Mia. As Kieran and Mia pay a visit…
🌟🌟🌟💫 With flashes of the brilliance that have come to be expected from this author, one of my very favorites, this book also was weighed far too heavily down with an overly complex plot, too many unnecessary and loosely connected tangents, and an emphasis on visual references to the dark…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Another top-notch read from one of my favorite authors, this one a delicious slow burn with main protagonists, Cal and Trey, who are both so beautifully rendered you will find yourself leaving the final pages aching to meet them again in a sequel. Nobody writes like Tana French, an…