Category: Book Reviews

A sweetly relatable family vacation story where the middle child strives to make a name for herself Emma, the second of three siblings, is tired of being in the middle all the time. Squished between her two brothers on a long ride to the beach, she brainstorms how she can stop being second pick and […]

A tightly paced supernatural thriller involved in the seedy handlings of tech secrets In C.J. Finch’s ambitious page-turner Pull, a man with the psychic ability to gain people’s memories through mere touch is targeted for high-value unencrypted files by an unknown and equally gifted assailant.  In New York City, Alex Hemsley is the chief technology […]

Every once in a while a debut novel arrives that feels less like a polished marketing object and more like someone finally saying the thing nobody else in the genre wanted to say out loud. Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick is that kind of book. Brooke Averick, the comedian and podcaster behind […]

Two lovers are tested in this dramatic romance spanning time and continents.  When a college student, Nick, decides to take part in an archaeological dig in Israel, he has no idea it will change the trajectory of his life. Once there, he meets a fellow student, Hannah, and together, they experience a brutal attack on […]

Little storytellers, big history In the third installment of her Bella’s Tales of History series, Deb Evans asks children and adults alike to reflect on the crucial roles that women played in the American Revolution; in doing so she encourages us all to “remember the ladies,” and their work, so often forgotten by society. Through […]

Picture your life flashing before your eyes, but slowly, on a steam engine, with a brisk Edwardian ghost in a cloche hat for company. That is roughly the conceit of The Midnight Train by Matt Haig, the second instalment in his Midnight World and the sort-of-but-not-really sequel to The Midnight Library. If the first novel […]

Childhood dreams, shattered futures, and a community under siege Is It Someone You Know? by Jill Carol follows the story of Detective Jennifer Cot, a 38-year-old investigator working tirelessly to uncover a mysterious killer targeting 11-year-old boys in Levittown, New York.  Jennifer is at a transitional point in her life, trying to quit smoking and […]

The devil isn’t just an abstract construct of our imagination. He is much closer than you think. In Mortal Vengeance: A Grim Tale, Alejandro Torres De la Rocha spins an emotionally compelling tale on how abuse, when left unchecked, can spiral into something even more sinister.  This story follows the lives of students caged within […]