Title: Dawg Towne Author: Alice Kaltman Publisher: Word West Press Published: 1 June 2021 Pages: 354 I received an ebook through Books Forward Friends in exchange for an honest review. This review will not be spoiler-free When I read the summary of the book, I thought it would be a quirky novel about a suburban […]
Title: The Christie Affair Author: Nina de Gramont Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: 20 January 2022 Pages: 320 If you know anything about Agatha Christie or are a fan of Agatha Christie, put the book on the table and walk away. I’ve always been a huge fan of Agatha Christie and her books, especially the […]
Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Broadway Books Published: 2011 Pages: 369 This book was such a fun book to read! I wasn’t expecting it to be as enjoyable as it was, but I was happily wrong. The book centers on Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, who has a dark sense of […]
Title: Wake the Bones Author: Elizabeth Kilcoyne Publisher: Wednesday Books Publication Date: 12 July 2022 Pages: 320 Okay, I think I need to stop trying with urban fantasy books for a while. There not my cup of tea, and I need to stop lying that they’ll ever be my cup of tea. I don’t know […]
Title: The City of Dusk Author: Tara Sim Publisher: Orbit Published: 22 March 2022 Pages: 576 My goodness, this was a roller coaster of a ride in such a good way! The book opens with a really creepy scene of a boy piling bodies one on top of each other and from then on this […]
Title: Neon Gods Author: Katee Robert Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Published: 1 June 2021 Pages: 384 Okay, so I’m going to try to write all of this as magnanimous as possible. I’m going to start off with what I thought was good before going to what I didn’t like. Greek gods as high society people is […]
Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Thomas Egerton (Original) Oxford (my copy) Published: 1811 Pages: 409 First off, I had small annoyances with each character at least some point while reading the novel. The novel centers around 2 sisters who are trying to find husbands to take care of them. The patriarchy and […]
Title: The Gilded Ones Author: Namina Forna Publisher: Delacorte Published: 8 October 2020 Pages: 432 Trigger Warnings: blood, violence, torture, misogyny, rape; there is talk of purity in the book that is reference to religious purity and purity culture in America for those of you who have been harmed by the church please take head. […]
Title: The Secret History Author: Donna Tartt Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Published: 16 September 1992 Pages: 544 This book has been on my TBR for ages, and I was so excited to read it. Unfortunately, that excitement didn’t last long. While I love dark academia books, and the plot was engaging, there was never any […]
Title: Ella Minnow Pea Author: Mark Dunn Publisher: Anchor Published: 17 September 2002 Ella lives on the fictional island of Nollop of the coast of South Carolina. Named for Nevin Nollop, the island took their founding from him and made their own country, the author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the […]