Month: April 2025

In Samantha Crewson’s unflinching debut novel, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter, we enter the psyche of Providence Byrd, a woman whose single act of teenage violence reverberates through her life like a scream in an empty house. This isn’t a comfortable read—nor should it be. Crewson leads us through the broken landscape of an American […]

Marie Bostwick’s The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a smart, emotionally layered, and culturally resonant novel that spins a domestic tale into something far more daring. Rooted in early 1960s America—a time of Tupperware parties and tight-lipped conformity—the novel explores the lives of four women whose dissatisfaction with the status quo finds a spark […]

David Baldacci, best known for his high-octane thrillers like Memory Man, The Innocent, and the recent legal drama A Calamity of Souls, pivots gracefully into the emotionally evocative realm of historical fiction with Strangers in Time. Set against the smoldering ruins of 1944 London, this novel is less a war story and more a slow-burning […]

With Gifted & Talented, Olivie Blake—best known for the philosophically arcane The Atlas Six—shifts her lens toward a sharp-edged satire dressed in speculative fiction. Here, Blake fuses family drama, dark academia, and science fantasy into an electrifying concoction of neuromancy, corporate rot, and inherited trauma. Set in a world where technological innovation borders on the […]

Jennifer Weiner’s The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits is a luminous, dual-timeline novel that blends the glitz of early 2000s pop stardom with the private struggles of two sisters navigating fame, betrayal, and generational silence. With her signature blend of heartfelt emotion and cultural commentary, Weiner crafts a narrative that doesn’t just recount a rise and […]