Tag: book-review

  • The Tenant By: Freida McFadden

    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…

  • Atmosphere By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

    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…

  • The Academy By: Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham

    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…

  • 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.…

  • Rebecca By: Daphne du Maurier

    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…

  • The God of the Woods By: Liz Moore

    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…

  • The Midnight Knock By: John Fram

    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.…