Dominoes Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: racist microaggressions, mention of enslavement, grief, discussion of police brutality and institutional racism, racism A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Zataya of the Coyote clan was no tower-trained […]
Village in the Dark Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder–and she […]
Bye, Baby Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: kidnapping, exploitation of person with dementia, sexual exploitation, grief, loss of a parent, sexual assault, alcoholism, murder, trauma, mention of abortion A […]
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice Thank you to NetGalley and Spotify Audiobooks for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey […]
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which […]
I finished January with 31 ARCs left to be read. Is it just me or did winter fly by? It felt like it was just December, and here we are at the start of a new month! Even though it’s a leap year, February still went by really […]
Since She’s Been Gone Thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: eating disorder, death of a parent, self-harm, stalking, cancer, miscarriage, mention of addiction, mention of death of a child […]
An Education in Malice CONTENT WARNING: uneven power dynamics, inappropriate relationships between a professor and students, toxic academic environments, blood, gore, murder, consensual sexual content including public sex, kink (both negotiated and spontaneous), alcohol and drug use, smoking, brief mention of racism political policies, brief mention of homophobia, […]
The Trials of Empire Thank you to Orbit, Angela Man, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, murder, excessive gore, blood, grief, harm to an animal, self-harm, mention of suicide THE TIME OF JUDGEMENT IS […]
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