The sprawling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil spans three centuries and in doing so introduces and follows three young women, each completely different, but ultimately bound to each other whether they want to be or not. Maria is a young woman in Spain in the 16th century about to be married off to a man she knows nothing about. She hopes marriage will bring her a life of ... Read More...
The Children by Melissa Albert
In her new novel, The Children author Melissa Albert goes with the familiar theme of life as the child of a celebrity and pushes it even harder. Edith is a writer who gained her fame and fortune by writing a series of children’s fantasy books, using her own children’s names and even their likenesses. Ennis and Guin had no escape from the adulation and curiosity she created ... Read More...
The Top of the World by Ethan Joella
When Maggie’s older brother, Chip disappears for the summer after the end of his senior year in high school it’s a big deal. Because it’s probably the last summer he’ll ever have and she and her parents are left alone and wondering if they’ll ever see him again. They do, but he never says anything about his time away. A year later Maggie seeks some kind of closure around his ... Read More...
Ungodly Rich by Katharine McGee
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...
July Reading Wrap-Up
Another July is in the books (pun intended) and I have yet to manifest the serene reading set-up in this graphic. Wouldn't it be lovely? Thankfully, my July reading delivered more highs than lows. The Original is a take on Katherine Hepburn’s life, but Priya Parmar surrounds her with a cast who were all original in their own way, including actor Cary Grant, a ... Read More...
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
How wonderful to find a novel that had me laughing out loud by page 10. Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash drops you right into the deep end of a deeply dysfunctional family from the perspective of their parish priest as he meets with their youngest daughter. They no longer come to church, the parents are stuck in a rut of vitriolic mutual dislike, and their three teenage daughters ... Read More...
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