This one messed with my brain. Taylor Jenkins Reid has always been a favorite author of mine, namely for one of my all-time favorite LGBT+ friendly books, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but this book broke my heart and put it back together again in one, fell swoop. If anyone can tackle existential crisis and girly in one book, it’s TJR, and Maybe in … Continue reading Review: Maybe in Another Life
My first ever Freida McFadden read, and I am hooked already. The setup, the red herrings, the twists: This was the perfect book to start my addiction to McFadden’s twisted storytelling style. The Housemaid is the first in a set of three stories following Millie, a housemaid with a secretive past, looking to start over and put her previous choices behind her. She begins working … Continue reading Review: The Housemaid
This was my first Ashley Poston read, and I was pleasantly surprised by the slightly confusing, definitely satisfying relationship between Clementine, Iwan, and the seven-years-past version of himself. In The Seven Year Slip Clementine “Lemon” West inherits her late aunt’s magic apartment, which occasionally throws her without warning into the past by seven years. While the world outside the apartment continues on, Clementine meets southern … Continue reading Review: The Seven Year Slip
One of my all-time favorite authors, Emily Henry scratched all the necessary feel-good, rom-com sweet spots with this one. Funny Story, Henry’s newest novel, has cracked the top two EH books for me. Daphne is left living with Miles after being jilted by her ex-fiance, who left her for Miles’s girlfriend. While bonding over their shared betrayals, chronic nomad Daphne and sexy nice guy Miles … Continue reading Review: Funny Story
Another thriller with “wait a second” twist endings, Local Woman Missing is a true thriller that had me asking, “what is happening?” over and over. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica is the story of a small town, grappling with the disappearance of two women and a little girl both when the disappearances happen and 11 years later, when the little girl, now seventeen, returns. … Continue reading Review: Local Woman Missing
This is one of those books that is an acquired taste. It really missed the mark for me, but other women in my book club saw a sort of raw beauty in it. The Most Fun We Ever Had tells the story of Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters, each with their own life and accompanying problems. The story alternates between narrators … Continue reading Review: The Most Fun We Ever Had
I will always recommend Lucy Foley books. Every. Single. Time. Yet again, this one made me gasp, yell, and cheer by the end. The Midnight Feast is similar in tone to Lucy Foley’s other suspenseful books: beautifully creepy with a hint of what I like to call, “wait-a-second” suspense. This particular story is set in the naturally eerie cliffs of lower Great Britain, at the … Continue reading Review: The Midnight Feast
When it comes to Tessa Bailey books, I’ve come to expect a couple things every time: a quick read and all the pulsating and heaving you can imagine. This one fell just short of the mark on both counts for me. The Au Pair Affair tells the story of live-in nanny Tallulah and her burly, tortured, single-dad boss, Burgess, who is a professional hockey player … Continue reading Review: The Au Pair Affair
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