🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I had to sit and take a beat after closing this book, my head still spinning after the fabulous ending. What a terrific read. This book — a “maybe-murder” mystery— is a true slow burn, written with skill, and impeccable class, from the very first pages, all the way…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A twisty, engaging, and fun to read murder mystery, set in a gorgeous vacation home in the Adirondacks, and centering on a hugely dysfunctional family. Sisters Esme (horribly status conscious), Piper (anxious and obsessive) and Regina (cocky and impulsive) are all married, all mothers, and all messed up. Particularly…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 “We are a continuum of human experience, neither the worst, nor the best thing we have ever done…. We are all of it, all at once, all the time.” A moving story told in the voices of three people, this is a story about redemption, love, and rediscovery —…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This reader’s introduction to DS George Cross, in this, number four in the series featuring the detective, and his partner, DS Josie Ottey. A great new find, DS Cross is a detective unlike any other encountered. Neurodiverse (in this case, on the spectrum), Cross is detail-oriented, methodical, and totally…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A book that couldn’t possibly be more charming, this is a read to savor, to enjoy, and to come back to, when your heart needs reminding that life is love, and all that goes with it. The disappointments, the grief, the anger, and of course, the joy and the…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A very mixed bag for this reader — first, the good (which is actually very good). This book starts with an interesting premise, featuring a detailed set of characters, each with their own POV, in a gorgeous island setting. The story is somewhat centered on a fascinating and horrifying…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A non-stop thriller which mixes Mexican drug cartel sheer and bloody terror with the incredible saga of a simple tequila-producing family, who grows from 1950’s Mexico to present day, along the way becoming a hugely successful, and absolutely dysfunctional, globally situated corporate dynasty, modeled with the moniker “RAM”. Peopled…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A searing and complex look at identity, sobriety, loneliness and longing — centering on the internal world of women, caretaking, motherhood, and the insidious push for disappearance into societal roles that, much as they may feel that way, do not ultimately define us. Between these pages we will follow…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A creepy and compelling peek into the not too distant future, where multiple acts of procreation (from those who can) are prioritized in a beat-up world struggling to preserve alarming population levels. Facing escalating climate pressures and mysterious viruses, (a world not too significantly unlike our own), our narrator,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+ A strange and absolutely wonderful collection of short stories, unlike anything you are likely to ever read. These stories resonate, they sing, metaphorically, as they broach topics like crippling anxiety, the insecurities of motherhood, chronic illness and our destruction of the environment, all couched in stories of missing organs…