Book Reviews

  • 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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  • Rebecca By: Daphne du Maurier

    A classic that has been on my TBR for way too long … First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century. A classic Gothic mystery that everyone should be reading.  This book is extra interesting because of when…

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  • The God of the Woods By: Liz Moore

    I could sit down and discuss this book for hours. Let me know what you thought of it, my brain is reeling. First of all, I don’t get the title. They did try to explain it in a little paragraph, but to me it’s an eye catching, marketing, title for a simple book.  But! What…

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  • 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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