Book Reviews

  • The Midnight Knock By: John Fram

    The latest horror book I read. I don’t read a lot of horror, but when I do … I like to make sure it’s weird-horror. A locked-room/Groundhog Day mystery meets white-knuckle horror in this thriller, where strangers must survive a deadly night in a remote Texas motel. The Midnight Knock is Groundhog Day meets horror-locked-room-mystery.…

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  • The Bookbinder’s Secret By: A.D. Bell

    A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. An absolute page turner. It feels like there is so much going on in this book, but it also feels very manageable chaos. I felt…

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  • An Academic Affair By: Jodi McAlister

    From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized. Big news: This is my first McAlister book and it won’t be my last.  This is a perfect enemies to lovers…

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  • Just Friends By: Haley Pham

    Catching up on some ARC reads I did this summer. Coming to you in spring of 2026! Heartwarming and swoon-worthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham. Let’s get the biases out-of-the-way, I do watch Haley’s YouTube channel. I do enjoy her cute…

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  • These Summer Storms By: Sarah MacLean

    Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything. A whole week on Storm Island is no easy…

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  • Adrift By: Will Dean

    Adrift By: Will Dean

    Coming to you in February – a domestic thriller. Dive into the brain of a crazed writer. An abused writer. And a kid just trying to make it. A family lives on an isolated canal boat with their fourteen-year-old son. Parents are aspiring writers and Samson, the son, attempts fitting in. With their increasing isolation,…

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  • Still Life By: Louise Penny

    Still Life By: Louise Penny

    The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal.  But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere…

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  • The Storm By: Rachel Hawkins

    St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama is famous for three the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local girl infamously accused of the murder of her lover, political scion Landon Fitzroy, during Hurricane Marie in 1984. When Geneva Corliss,…

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  • The Writers’ Retreat By: Samantha Vérant

    A crazy, ‘cozy-thriller’ read … I’m all in for this writers writing about writing trend! Liv gets an opportunity to attend an exclusive writers retreat. Liv is quickly reunited with her past. She needs to face what happened. But with a killer loose, is it worth it? WHAT A RIDE. The Writer’s Retreat may get…

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  • Last Seen J.T. Ellison

    Last Seen J.T. Ellison

    A psychological thriller as Halley searches for her sister that she always thought was dead. Turns out she didn’t die in a car accident when she was six along with their mom. Turns out her last name isn’t even her real last name … Why did her dad hide this from her for so long…

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