Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Year Published: 2022 A while ago I asked my fellow bookstagrammers for recommendations for “sad girl summer” books. Someone commented and recommended Hurricane Girl. I hadn’t heard much about this book, but I heard mixed things about Very Nice, the author’s previous book. I wanted to love this one, and for […]

Publisher: Back Bay Books; Year Published: 2017 LESS is a book I’ve seen littered all over the bookish corners of the internet, in every used bookstore, on “notable book” stands in Barnes & Noble and other bookstores. It’s highly recommended. It’s won many literary awards, perhaps most notably it won the Pulitzer for fiction in […]

Publisher: Berkley Books; Year Published: 2020 Lately, I’ve been trying to read the books sitting on my shelves that I haven’t read yet. That includes past Book of the Month picks (I no longer subscribe). This was a solid three-star read for me – enjoyable characters, interesting storyline, well-executed, but ultimately missing ~something~ to make […]

⁣I bought this book years ago but it sat on my shelf for a long time. I picked it up one Sunday and finished it the same day. It’s a very quick read, but honestly… Not very good. It opens dramatically with Diane’s husband and only child dying in a car accident. Pitched as a […]

Synopsis: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair’s construction, tangentially collides with H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who uses the Fair as an opportunity to lure victims into his World’s Fair Hotel, which had a crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds. ⁣

“I wonder if he would love me if he could see inside my head, the pettiness, the dirty linen of my thoughts, the terrible things that I have done.”⁣⁣Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, wakes to a perfect July morning at the Paper Palace, the family home she’s visited every summer for decades. […]

Dear Reader, ⁣⁣Calling all Bridgerton fans—oh, do I have a spicy historical romance recommendation for you. The second installment in a series from Harper St. George, THE DEVIL AND THE HEIRESS tells the tale of Violet Crenshaw, a writer who doesn’t want to marry a man she doesn’t love. But soon, an arranged marriage comes her […]

“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”⁣

Thank you @netgalley and @berkleypublishing 💛 out today 9/7 ⁣⁣Evie Dunmore is my go-to author for historical romance stories that have a lot of steam and feel progressive.⁣