It's no secret that I love delving into a book’s depths in a lot of my reviews, but sometimes I love and NEED something lighter and less angsty. It was lucky then that I found Katharine McGee’s new novel, Ungodly Rich, an outsized wealthy-people-behaving-badly novel tweaked by the addition of Greek gods living in the modern-day world. After graduate school fell through Julia ... Read More...
June Reading Recap
Thankfully my June reading was stronger than my ability to write about it. It's been an action packed month with reading that covered the spectrum from meh to my favorite(s) of the year so far. Yes, there were two. Let's jump in before my need for a nap kicks in. Best friends forever, lovers for a moment, Kit and Theo unexpectedly find themselves ... Read More...
2025 Best Backlist
I couldn’t exit the year without an acknowledgement of the backlist books that kept me afloat in 2025. While there were excellent new books released in 2025 these six special novels, all published in previous years found me when I needed books to provide an escape, thrill me, make me laugh, and even break my heart a little. Fantastic ... Read More...
The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
I’m keeping it simple with another rom-com winner for post-holiday enjoyment reading. Valentine’s Day is supposed to be one of the most romantic days of the year, but for Jane, Miranda, and Siobhan it’s been a big disappointment. Three strangers, each stood up at a different place, but… by the same man. In The No-Show by Beth O’Leary, we follow these women and the one man who ... Read More...
Don’t You Forget About Me
Georgina is not having a great day. She’s been fired from another job and she walked in on her boyfriend having ice cream covered sex with his personal assistant. Now she’s unemployed and will never be able to look at a bowl of ice cream again without gagging. These are just two of the harsh realities facing Georgie when Don’t You Forget About Me begins. The trajectory of ... Read More...
May Reading Recap
May turned into quite a month for my reading and beyond. There’s plenty to share, but for now, I’ll stick with some of the books that stuck with me (and a couple that missed the mark). Daniel is a criminal profiler who works finding serial killers. He’s chosen this line of work because he’s haunted by having seen an abducted boy at a highway rest stop when he was ... Read More...
