🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ I couldn’t have loved this book more. Brilliantly sardonic, between these pages we will meet the literary world’s currently most interesting first-person POV protagonist, Margo Miyake — a single-minded gleefully narcissistic thirty-eight year old, whose single, overarching goal in her chaotically-controlled life is to own her dream home. With…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Are we exposed by, defined by, the worst thing we’ve ever done? Do our actions teach the world how to label us, hate us, mistrust us — or are we better than that, all of us, people who are struggling, who mess up (often royally), who often mean well,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Jenny Finney Boylen, a self-proclaimed bookish, goofy (outwardly male) college professor, knew from an early age that she was a girl inside — a transgender path she did not follow until she reached her forties. Exactly how that journey unfolded, the changes encountered and the spaces left unfilled cannot…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An emotionally gripping story, highlighting the debilitating trail cut by grief, loss, fear and self-shaming. Narrated in turn by Kyle McCray, a fortyish mechanic, now living in Spokane, Washington and his ex-wife, Casey, who remained behind two-and-a-half years ago in their home and hometown of Potsdam NY, Kyle’s losses…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A beautifully-written story about being seen - a feeling so addictive and rapturous, once encountered, nothing can stand in its way. And so we meet Tatum Vega, the first person POV narrator of this story, a young Latina woman, living in San Antonio, Texas. A Literature and Fine Arts college…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An unputdownable thriller, creatively centering on a true-crime podcast, a cold-case mystery, and a totally captivating nasty-but-nice heroine. Lucy Chase is almost thirty, - a beautiful, sarcastic, darkly hilarious, tough-as-nails loner who is used to being on the outside looking in. On the very outside, that is, - as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Five stars all the way, - for creativity, ingenuity, and cleverness, if for nothing else. But there is so much else! This, the third book authored by one of this reader’s favorite thriller writers, is narrated in the first person by a character like no other - the self-reflective,…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A family saga centering on three siblings - each dealing with their messy, shameful childhood in their own way. As questionable decisions, secrets and misguided deceptions mount, its pretty clear there are no easy answers to the age old question - just how far are we willing to go…
🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A riveting and powerful read, this multilayered story winds and sweeps through the lives of characters that at first glance, almost appear to have it all. Almost, but not quite, as soon becomes apparent when a young girl is murdered, and it becomes likely that the seventeen-year-old children of…