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Honey
Honey,  by Isabel Banta, tells the story of Amber Young, an aspiring pop star in the late 1990s, and goes through her rise, her success, and her personal life.  This novel has a ve… Read More
The Sequel (to The Plot)
Pretty much any discussion of The Sequel is going to have spoilers for the first book, The Plot, so if you haven’t read that one yet, stop reading this review! First, I really liked Th… Read More
Still Needs Work
Ellen Barker’s upcoming novel Still Needs Work begins with a layoff.  Marianne wasn’t particularly invested in or passionate about her tech job, but it’s still a… Read More
Long Island Compromise
I wanted to read this because I’d absolutely loved Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel, Fleishman is in Trouble, but I didn’t like Long Island Compromise nearly as much. Lo… Read More
Ghost Station
Ghost Station, by S A Barnes, is a new space suspense story.  The novel’s tension comes from a distant, deep-space setting and from interpersonal secrets among the crew, long befo… Read More
Dark Tales Of Whimsy
Dark Tales of Whimsy is a new short fiction collection from Endless Ink Books. I’ve previously read and enjoyed Endless Ink titles, including a 2020 short story collection, Earth… Read More
Pride And Preston Lin
Christina Hwang Dudley’s fun new novel Pride and Preston Lin takes inspiration from the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice, without being a beat-for-beat modernization. Liss… Read More
Trouble with Lichen is a 1960 scifi novel by John Wyndham. The story revolves around the discovery of a new type of lichen that dramatically slows down the aging process in humans. I really… Read More
Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, by J. G. Lewis, is a series of historical murder mysteries, in which the very real Ela of Salisbury, widow of William Longespée, who becomes sheri… Read More
Ela Of Salisbury Mysteries
Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, by J. G. Lewis, is a series of historical murder mysteries, in which the very real Ela of Salisbury, widow of William Longespée, who becomes sheri… Read More
Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera, investigates a small-town mystery when a true-crime podcaster comes to town. Years ago, Lucy’s best friend Savvy was murdered, and Lucy was found a… Read More
The classic horror novel Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King, was written in the 1970s,  but is still popular and still a good suspense story today. Readers can still be drawn into… Read More
The Wolf Den, by Elodie Harper, is intense, dramatic historical fiction, set in an ancient Pompeiian brothel, with a world of violence and exploitation. You really do have to be up for the b… Read More
Murder on the Christmas Express, by Alexandra Benedict, was a really wild ride, with Quality Street chocolates and a Christmas-themed pub quiz,  and also a body count with a distur… Read More
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is a 1955 science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Some unexplained worldwide nuclear event, called the Tribulation, has led to mass deaths and… Read More
Trine Rising is the start of a new fantasy series, the Kinderra Saga, by author C.K. Donnelly, presenting an epic fantasy story centered around the character of Mirana. In a fantasy society… Read More
Wrong Way, by Joanne McNeil, looks at tech innovations and social class through one woman’s work experiences. It’s more about an overall idea than a character or a relationship o… Read More
In no particular order, with no particular number, here are some of the more enjoyable and most memorable books I read this year. Cozy Vibes I usually avoid magic-of-books stories, but Days… Read More
I got Commencement, by J. Courtney Sullivan, in a mystery book purchase. I was able to see a little description but no hint of the title or author. I thought it sounded like The New Gir… Read More
In the beginning of The Institute, by Stephen King, Luke Ellis is freakishly smart, a tween ready to dual-enroll at MIT and Emerson, who occasionally moves things when he’s highly emot… Read More
Meet the Benedettos, by Katie Cotugno, is a reality show/Jane Austen mashup. Five sisters struggles to escape being a reality-TV punchline and turn their fame into something lasting, as thei… Read More
I first read Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, when I was working on an MMO about ten years ago, and I remember loving the book. But I only had strong memories of the Joust scene, the extra… Read More
Battlefield Earth takes place in a dark, distant future where our Earth has been conquered by powerful aliens, the Psychlos. These Psychlos want the natural resources of planet Earth, and ha… Read More
Rosewater takes readers to a fascinating specfic future in Nigeria. I was immediately intrigued with Kaaro's abilities as a sensitive, and how this was both a life-changing, unexplained supe… Read More
Nightbloom, is a new novel by Peace Adzo Medie, the author of His Only Wife. The stories centers around Selasi and Akorfa, two cousins in Ghana. Their mothers were close friends, so they bec… Read More
I was delighted to receive the ARC for Cecily von Ziegesar’s upcoming novel, Cobble Hill. I went into this one expecting Gossip Girl for adults, but I found was a more of a neighborhoo… Read More
How do you save money? I started reading Abby’s blog, IPickUpPennies, for personal finance advice back in 2008, during my first once-in-a-lifetime recession. She writes about regularly… Read More
The Mall,  by Megan McCafferty, is a retro, over-the-top YA story about mall culture and the summer after high school. Cassie plans to spend her final summer in New Jersey working along… Read More
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, written by Satoshi Yagisawa and translated into English by Eric Ozawa, Takako feels like she has an average life, with an adequate job after graduating from an… Read More
After the end of The Mimicking of Known Successes, Mossa and Pleiti discover another strange disappearance to solve in The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles. Several disappearances, actual… Read More
Takuan from Koto is a fun new fantasy adventure by Ryu Zhong. The MG story of the trickster Takuan takes places over three books, Prince of Blue Flowers, Hunters of Weredemons, and Envoys of… Read More
Didn’t See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto focuses on a minor character in Well, That Was Unexpected, but it’s still very readable as a standalone. Teenage Kiki (Sharlot’s… Read More
I really enjoyed the Southern Gothic suspense of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins. I’ve liked her other novels, I especially loved the modern Southern Gothic feel of Hawkins’ previo… Read More
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Jessica Goodman’s new release, The Legacies. I absolutely fell into her novel  The Counselors, but I found  They Wish Th… Read More
Writers Of The Future 39
I’ve been reading the Writers of the Future annual SF/F anthology for a few years now, since WofF31, so  I was excited to receive this year’s Writers of the Future 39. These… Read More
I heard this one had Gone Girl vibes, and it sort of did, but I thought it was much closer to It’s Always the Husband. In the beginning of Pretty Little Wife, by Darby Kane, Lila Ridge… Read More
I had a bit of a mixed reaction to One of the Boys, by Jayne Cowie. The world building is compelling, with a society shaped by a genetic test that identifies which men and boys have the prop… Read More
In That’s What Frenemies Are For, by Sophie Littlefield and Lauren Gershell,  upscale New York mommy Julia maintains her popularity and status by discovering designers, mastermind… Read More
I was pretty much sold on the NetGalley blurb for The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir: Teenage Esther Hicks is a daughter on a Christian family reality show... and also secretly pr… Read More
In Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang,  unsuccessful writer Juniper Hayward ends up with the only copy of an almost-finished manuscript of her much more successful writer friend, Athena Liu, an… Read More
I do like a good family saga, and The House of Trelawney has all the strained relationships and eccentric relatives imaginable. After 700 years of titled wealth, the remaining members of the… Read More
Jason Rekulak’s The Impossible Fortress is full of fun ’80s game-programming nostalgia, but that’s not the only reason to read it. This world of mix tapes and floppy disks… Read More
The Man Who Feels Like Home by Roxana M. Rotaru is a fun and funny story of love and relationships. Allie, our lively heroine, takes readers along on her personal journey to love, commitment… Read More
So Lying in the Deep had so many elements I love in thrillers, but my overall feeling was much more meh than wow.  You know I like fiction set in exotic new places, and I always love wh… Read More
If We’re Being Honest, by Cat Shook, is a gentle, feel-good Southern family story, a mni-family saga packed into one eventful week.  It begins with a shocking secret revealed at g… Read More
In A Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware,  has a bit of a slow start, with too many references to Leonora’s Big Unmentionable Secret before the plot gets going or we learn much else abo… Read More
Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, tells the story of newly divorced Toby Fleishman. Toby is ready to recover single life with hook ups and nudes on dating apps, when his new… Read More
The Rachel Incident, by Caroline O’Donoghue, was basically a one-sitting read for me. The plot’s twisty and emotional, full of realistic early-twenties intensity, with a much-old… Read More
I started reading Last Summer at the Golden Hotel a few months ago, but I put it aside, because it was too hard to keep track of all the characters. There are two families, three generations… Read More
One of the ways to grow your book review blog or bookstagram is by reading and reviewing ARCs (advance review copies). These advance copies let book bloggers, influencers, and tastemakers re… Read More
The Winters, by Lisa Gabriele, is a page-turning tribute to Rebecca, with a blend of modern and gothic secrets. Our unnamed protagonist is working as a crew hand in the Cayman Islands, when… Read More
I just loved this Atlas Obscura story about old ladies and the tiny, tidy defacing of library books. Immediately after learning about the marked 7s, Grainger says, her mind started to race t… Read More
In the Hawaiian mystery novel Off The Grid, by Robert McCaw, an abandoned rural area in the shadow of a volcano makes a perfect place for quietly living secretive, off-the-grid lives. T… Read More
I kept seeing posts about The Writing Retreat, by Julia Bartz, on Instagram, and I was completely intrigued by the premise. A locked-door thriller set at a writing retreat? A fiction competi… Read More
Happy Ides of March! Obviously, the best way to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar is by collectively stabbing the coworker who annoys you most. The second best way is by reading… Read More
A Machine Divine, by Derek Paul, is a new steampunk YA novel. When the story opens, teenage Asher and Callie, from the small town of Vana, have both been accepted in university in Riali City… Read More
When The Savage Instinct opens, Clara Blackstone is being released from the asylum after a mental breakdown. Clara plans to live quietly and avoid annoying her husband so she’ll never… Read More
In the next Marcus Corvinus adventure, Foreign Bodies, the new emperor Claudius requests some help looking into the death of a family friend. The unfortunate victim was living in Lugdunum, i… Read More

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