Murder at the Campfire Cookout Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Cozies for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. When Lindsey Bakewell leaves behind her lighthouse bakeshop, her boyfriend, Rory, and her Newfoundland dog, Wellington, for a glamping trip with […]
Witchful Shrinking Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. It’s never too late to find your voice. Especially when magic gets involved. 48-year-old Simone Bardot’s life is a junk drawer of a mess. […]
Liar’s Dice Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A heart-rending and hopeful debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is unexpectedly torn away from her disabled twin sister—and who must […]
Treat Them as Buffalo Thank you to Algonquin Books for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a Great Plains Métis community, a young man attempts […]
Odessa Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back […]
A Death in the Dark Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. An assistant athletics coach is found murdered at Redwood Grove High School and all evidence points one way—but the Novel Detectives […]
Mad Mabel Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people […]
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: “Winter was an unforgiving time on Holy Island. […]
The Lost Girl of Craven County Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A decade into the Great Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old “old maid” living with her marriage-obsessed mother and […]
When We’re Born We Forget Everything Thank you to Schocken for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. AN UNCONVENTIONAL TALE OF SPIRITUAL SELF-INVENTION REFRACTED THROUGH FEMINIST RETELLINGS OF THE LIVES OF BIBLICAL WOMEN. As a self-described ‘90s suburban high school weirdo, […]
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