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Continue reading →: What We Can Know is On the Border Between Speculative Fiction and Domestic Drama
Authored by Ian McEwan; Published September 2025; Science Fiction (?) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 🏖️🏖️ What We Can Know is full of romantic drama and extramarital affairs, but at its core, it’s about the gap between what we experience and what history will know of our lives when we become something of the…
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Continue reading →: The Westing Game Will Enchant Your Puzzle Loving Kids
Authored by Ellen Raskin; Published 1978; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Westing Game bears little resemblance to any book that I read as a young adult, but I can’t help but think that I would have enjoyed it, had it been handed to me. In The Westing Game, paper product…
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Continue reading →: Just a Highland Fling Might Not Be the Fun Getaway You’re Looking For
Authored by Naina Kumar; Published July 2026; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Just a Highland Fling tells you what it’s all about, right in the title. Unsurprisingly, the fling turns out to be much more complicated, and perhaps less fun, than anticipated for the characters and readers alike. Just a Highland…
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Continue reading →: A Violent Masterpiece is Self-Explanatory
Authored by Jordan Harper; Published April 2026; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The title of A Violent Masterpiece alone was enough to make me doubt my choice to pick it up. And undoubtedly, it is brutal, graphic, and sometimes difficult to get through. But I can’t say that it isn’t magnetic…
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Continue reading →: Cassandra at the Wedding Makes Me Cringe
Authored by Dorothy Baker; Published 1962; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cassandra at the Wedding must have caused quite the stir when it was published in 1962. In 2026, it seems almost painfully ordinary, if also clearly tragic. Or perhaps it’s not quite so ordinary, and I have just lived a life full of…
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Continue reading →: To Cage a Wild Bird is Reminiscent of The Hunger Games
Authored by Brooke Fast; Published September 2025; Romantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ If you’re looking for a dystopian novel that shows just how bad a capitalistic prison industry can get, To Cage a Wild Bird is your novel. I wouldn’t choose it for the romance, but the suspense may be worth…
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Continue reading →: A Murderous Business Brings Turn of the Century Vibes
Authored by Cathy Pegau; Published September 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ A Murderous Business is an easy mystery to power your way through. There’s no gray morality or vicious antiheroes, just right, wrong, and powerful women. In A Murderous Business, early twentieth century businesswoman Margot Harriman is shocked to discover…
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Continue reading →: The Red Tent is Both Biblical and Not
Authored by Anita Diamant; Published 2014; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Red Tent is unique among novels that I’ve read this year. A creative re-imagining of a Bible story, it both honors and sets aside the tradition from which it comes. The Red Tent retells the story of Joseph,…
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Continue reading →: Dominion Features a Rich Mythology
Authored by Jean Kwok; Published July 2026; Romantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Dominion creates a fantastical world that’s easy to get lost in, with a divided world and rival fictions with rich mythology. The narrative, however, leaves something to be desired. In Dominion, Rubi has lost her memories after the destruction…
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Continue reading →: Canon Makes a Mockery of Quests from God
Authored by Paige Lewis; Published May 2026; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I fully admit, I’m not really a literary fiction person, and this novel, though technically fantasy, could definitely fall into that category. If I had to describe Canon in two words, it would be performatively weird. In Canon, God…
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