Tag: book reviews
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ARC Review: The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine
When Rebecca Charity first saw the coffin in her dorm room, she thought it must be a mistake. But then Aliz Astra stepped into the lamplight — beautiful, deadly, and impossibly alive. Rebecca’s heart didn’t know whether to race from hatred or something far more dangerous.
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Review
Set in the near future, the story takes place in the Republic of Gilead—a theocratic regime built from the ruins of the United States. Reacting to social unrest and a falling birthrate, Gilead enforces extreme, literal interpretations of scripture, with devastating consequences for women and men alike. Told through the eyes of Offred, a Handmaid…
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Review: Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) by Rebecca Yarros
An honest review of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros: dragons, romance, messy pacing, and a cliffhanger ending that still hooked me.
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ARC Review: The Book of Blood & Roses by Annie Summerlee
When Rebecca Charity first saw the coffin in her dorm room, she thought it must be a mistake. But then Aliz Astra stepped into the lamplight — beautiful, deadly, and impossibly alive. Rebecca’s heart didn’t know whether to race from hatred or something far more dangerous.
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ARC Review: Haven’t Killed in Years by Amy K. Green
When body parts start arriving at Gwen Tanner’s door, it’s clear someone knows her real identity: Marin Haggerty, daughter of a notorious serial killer. Forced to confront the past she’s spent two decades hiding from, Gwen must navigate the dark world of true crime fandom to find the new killer—before her secrets destroy her for…
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ARC Review: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley
A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house…
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Review: Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel by Ella Berman. Ten years after being cleared in their friend Evangeline’s death during a summer in Greece, Bess and Joni have taken very different paths—Joni chasing fame, Bess hiding from it. But when…
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Review: My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
‘My Next Breath’ by Jeremy Renner is a memoir that expands on his tragic accident in January of 2023. ˚ ✦ . . ˚ . . ✦ ˚ . ★ Book Summary & My Thoughts A barrier looks like an opportunity to push through something. Not a stop sign. When I first saw that Jeremy Renner was releasing a…
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Greenlights | Book Review
Greenlights is 50 years of Matthew McConaughey’s graces, truths, and beauties of brutality wrapped into a book. It is a stunning love letter to life itself. From choosing the arts over law school to redefine his own milestones, this memoir completely blew me away.
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The Final Girl Support Group | Book Review
After sitting on my TBR forever, I finally picked up ‘The Final Girl Support Group’ by Grady Hendrix. This thrilling 4/5 star read gave me absolute narrative whiplash—here is my full review!
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