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Continue reading →: Don’t Let Him In Features an Absolutely Psychotic Villain
Authored by Lisa Jewell; Published June 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Don’t Let Him In is the kind of thriller that draws you in with the sheer audacity of the villain. There’s no whodunit, no question about what crimes have been committed—just a true psychopath, blazing his way through a…
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Continue reading →: Sounds Like Love Brings You Back to the Boardwalk
Authored by Ashley Poston; Published June 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Are you missing summer? The beaches, the boardwalks, the sandy toes? If you want to relive the idyllic, hot days of July and August, Sounds Like Love may fit the bill. In Sounds Like Love, songwriter Joni has hit…
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Continue reading →: Time and Again Gets to the Heart of the Time Travel Problem
Authored by Jack Finney; Published 1970; Science Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The more classic science fiction I read, the more enthralled by it I become. There is something to its simplicity, to not letting too many gadgets and gizmos get in the way, that adds to its appeal. Time and…
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Continue reading →: The Hallmarked Man is More Complicated Than It Needs to Be
Authored by Robert Galbraith; Published September 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I was warned, and it is worth repeating: The Hallmarked Man is long. As in, nine hundred pages, all of which are thinner than the norm to make the book feel more dense than thick. Frankly, dense is also…
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Continue reading →: El Dorado Drive Will Scare You Away from Pyramid Schemes
Authored by Megan Abbott; Published June 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I was not at all sold on El Dorado Drive for the first third of the novel—pyramid schemes have never been all that interesting to me, and they are at the heart of this novel. But the suspense and…
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Continue reading →: The Last Phi Hunter Stars a Classic Hero Saving His Princess
Authored by Salinee Goldenberg; Published 2024; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Last Phi Hunter takes place in a rich world of magic and mythology, but at its heart is a classic tale of a street urchin falling for a princess and a hero slaying his monster nemesis. In The Last…
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Continue reading →: The Good Liar Brings Class Differences to the Forefront
Authored by Denise Mina; Published July 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Class structure in the UK comes with a lot of baggage—if that wasn’t clear to me before, it is glaringly obvious after reading The Good Liar. For once, I’m glad to be in America. In The Good Liar, Claudia…
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Continue reading →: Loved One Meditates on the Grief for One Lost Too Soon
Authored by Aisha Muharrar; Published August 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved One is a specific type of meditation on grief, capturing the confusion and messiness of mourning a person who was taken right in the midst of their life, like a sentence without a conclusion. It feels real rather than melodramatic,…
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Continue reading →: Vanishing Act Features a Unique Heroine
Authored by Thomas Perry; Published 1994; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Vanishing Act is over thirty years old, and in the internet age, it may seem like a relic of the past. But heroine Jane Whitefield’s ability to help people disappear retains its mystique, and I still enjoyed the ride it…
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Continue reading →: The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World Is Raw with Grief
Authored by J.R. Dawson; Published July 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World contains a great magnitude of grief in its story of a ferryman of souls and his adopted daughter. Even though the mythology behind it feels incomplete, its emotional weight is raw…
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