🌟🌟🌟🌟 Creepy and compelling, this suspense novel starts with a bang — a missing person — and evolves steadily into a spine-tingling remote island creepfest — where nothing is quite as it seems, for both Grady, our main first-person POV protagonist, and the reader. Grady Green is a disheartened author,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Achingly beautiful, a book that builds from a gentle start, pooling silently like sunlight as the story takes hold, gradually revealing a radiating luminosity that made this reader, upon reaching the final page, long to begin the story all over again. Drenched with nostalgia that sets a tone that…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A pitch-perfect UK-based thriller with a pair of fabulous main characters, and a kickoff of a whole new series to boot. Written in 2019, this author and his work had previously somehow passed this reader by — a misstep that will now be quickly corrected. Dr Cyrus Haven is…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 For anyone who has ever considered their body, and judged it not “good”, without really stopping to wonder — Not good for what? Or whom? — this memoir, written by a woman who has explored that question, painfully and from birth, will definitely set your head spinning. Diagnosed with…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A book that has been incredibly well-reviewed, and for this reader, unfortunately, fell more than a little flat. A sweeping, ambitious story, this tale begins with the friendship between Patch, a thirteen year-old boy with one eye, and Saint, his best friend, complete with single braid and dungarees. The…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ It is impossible to put into words (so ironic is that) how much this reader adored this little children’s picture book, — the tale of a boy named Oscar. The book is illustrated beautifully, with soft-palette images so gorgeous and charming any reader (of any age) would love to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A fascinating, meticulously-researched story starring both William Shakespeare, and a real-life sixteenth-century convicted murderess, Alice Arden. Told in alternating first-person voices of each of the main protagonists, the story oscillates between the timeline leading up to Alice’s involvement in the historical murder, which took place in 1551, and Shakespeare’s…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An easy read with a fast-paced plot and lots of intrigue. The perfect read for an afternoon lie-in during a blizzard (or any reading day at all). Megan - our first-person-POV narrator - is a twenty-eight-year old recent widow - an ethereal beauty with white-blonde hair and an aversion…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Edgy and raw, this is Book 4 in the Black Harbor series, and the first this reader has had the pleasure to read. Hazel Rydelle, our first-person POV narrator, is an ex-police-transcriber and and ex-occupant of Black Harbor, Milwaukee, — by her accounts a terrible place; black at heart;…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A thoughtful and penetrating look at multicultural identity - the not-so-simple task of blurring and integrating who we feel ourselves to be, as we assume new roles in new countries, and in doing so, both chip away and attempt to fortify elements of our deepest being. When a young…