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, […]
Stakeouts and Strollers Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Amateur private investigator and new dad Charlie Shaw gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to track down a young girl’s […]
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: “According to most of the planet, the second […]
A Practical Guide to Dating a Demon Thank you to GP Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. As a scholarship student at the magical Lyceum, Naomi would rather focus on deciphering ancient scrolls than […]
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: “Usually, the booze made him angry. Tonight, Shawn […]
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