Category Archives: Review

Hide, by Kiersten White

I’m not going to give a real description of this book because the more you don’t know, the better it will be. Here are the bare minimums: horror genre without tons of gore, social commentary, a competitive hide-and-seek tournament, and … Continue reading

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Deadly Little Scandals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

This book is the follow-up of Little White Lies. Because I liked the first book, I knew this would be a good one to bring with me on vacation to read on the airplane and throughout the week. No chance … Continue reading

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She is a Haunting, by Trang Thanh Tran

From Storygraph: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to … Continue reading

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The Last Remains, by Elly Griffiths (audio)

In the fall of 2019, I discovered the Ruth Galloway series and quickly binged my way through the first 11 of them. Each year since, a new book has published, and The Last Remains is the 15th and final volume … Continue reading

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Nightbirds, by Kate Armstrong (audio)

Magic is forbidden by the church, but it lives on deep inside certain women, kept hidden by rich families to do their bidding with a kiss. On the surface, this is the story of three teenage girls forced into a … Continue reading

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The London Séance Society, by Sarah Penner

Lenna is a scientist at heart, but after her sister’s murder, she travels to Paris to meet with a renown spiritualist, Vaudeline. Vaudeline has fled London due to the danger posed by unscrupulous fraudsters there. With Lenna at her side, … Continue reading

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The Longest Race, by Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon (audio)

Subtitled: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team From the subtitle of this book, I expected it to be part memoir, part exposé about the Nike Oregon Project. While it is that, the … Continue reading

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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook, by Brandon Sanderson (audio)

Full title: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Our narrator wakes up in a field, not knowing who or where he is. Very quickly, he discovers that he’s from another dimension and has traveled to some version of … Continue reading

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Two Can Keep a Secret, by Karen McManus

After their mother is court-ordered into rehab, twins Ellery and Ezra have moved in with their grandmother in the small town of Echo Ridge, Vermont. It’s a place they’ve never been, as their mother ran from it after her twin … Continue reading

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The Neighbor Favor, by Kristina Forest

Lily is an editor’s assistant, dreaming of moving into a different part of the publishing world and struggling to live up to her family’s successes. Nick is a journalist who once published an obscure novel while running from his past. … Continue reading

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