Book Reviews

  • Stone Cold Fox By: Rachel Koller Croft

    Absolutely sleezy, salacious, wonderful book about a girl you will hate and root for at the same time. A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country’s wealthiest families. (Goodreads…

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  • You Shouldn’t Have Come Here By Jeneva Rose

    At under 300 pages – it’s such a quick read… why not? Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives, she’s pleasantly surprised to find that the owner is a handsome man by the…

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  • The Found Object Society By: Michelle Maryk

    Happy publication day! For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a…

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  • A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage By: M.K. Oliver

    A book dripping with sarcasm and blood … if you are looking for a break from serious reading, here is your calling. A whip-smart and darkly funny crime novel—perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Maid—that follows a wife and mother with a deadly secret that she must suppress if she wants to maintain…

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  • Skylark By: Paula McLain

    Skylark By: Paula McLain

    Accidentally picked up another WWII book – my fault. The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that…

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  • The Last Father-Daughter Dance: A Short Story By: Lisa Wingate

    A short story that you wouldn’t want to miss out on. It’s like a cozy 1-episode TV show. For a father and daughter, it’s a journey through the four seasons in a poignant short story about memories and everlasting love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate. (Goodreads blurb) I always like to start reviews…

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  • The Tenant By: Freida McFadden

    McFadden does another thriller – and I was not disappointed. There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends…

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  • Atmosphere By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

    With a 4.34 rating and over half million reviews, you know you need this on your TBR. Winner of Goodreads Historical Fiction 2025 Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative…

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  • The Academy By: Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham

    Elin is back! And I love it. Edit: Yes! It is part of a series! #1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. (Goodreads blurb) This…

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  • DNFs of 2025

    I thought it would be fun to share a list of books that I had to put down. The dreaded DNF list. Here are a list of books I didn’t finish in 2025: Any of them pop out to you? Let me know if you liked or disliked any of the books on this list.…

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