Category: Reviews

The ending of this book made me furious, and not in a good way. Now, you might be wondering how the hell someone could be furious in a good way. Here’s how the hell. Sometimes, a book (or movie, TV show, etc) might not turn out how you wanted it to. Perhaps you didn’t get… Continue reading The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

Olivia Fitzgerald is smarting from the critical failure of her second novel, a reimagining of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca, when she receives an offer to ghost write a book for troubled billionaire hunk Henry Asherwood. She is given precious few details about the project,  but with her funds dwindling, and a wicked case of writer’s block… Continue reading The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor

I will preface this review by saying I don’t really think that Taylor Adams will kill me. However, as this book is about an author exacting physical revenge against someone who left him a bad review, well, let’s say it gives me pause. Particularly when I tell you that The Last Word is easily the… Continue reading The Last Word by Taylor Adams

I’m a big fan of Brandon Sanderson’s—have been ever since I discovered him via The Gathering Storm—but there’s no denying that his work can be emotionally heavy. For example, during a recent Stormlight Archives re-read, I made the mistake of listening to THAT Rhythm of War death scene while out on a walk and ended… Continue reading Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Have you ever read a book that got much better the second go around? For me, that book is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I liked it the first time, but I admit my reading was a bit colored by how different it was from Schwab’s previous books. This time, however, it was so… Continue reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Consider this a review of the first 126 pages, because I just couldn’t make it past that point. It’s not a terrible book—I’ve finished worse—but it never pulled me in. Sure, it starts with a man getting in a car accident because he was driving intoxicated while getting a hand job from a waitress he… Continue reading The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

In How to Sell a Haunted House, Louise and Mark are two estranged siblings who are forced to come together after their parents die unexpectedly to clean out their childhood home. The task proves to be far from easy as they soon find themselves grappling with family secrets, room after room of clutter, and of… Continue reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

What’s the opposite of soulmate? Soulenemy? Whatever the moniker, that’s what this book was to me. Okay, that might be a tad dramatic—I did stay invested enough to want to finish the thing—but it just wasn’t as good as the last few Hepworth offerings that I’ve read. The premise is an interesting one: Pippa and… Continue reading The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth