RaeAnne Thayne’s The Lost Book of First Loves masterfully weaves together themes of family, identity, and healing in a story that feels both intimate and expansive. While the novel occasionally succumbs to convenient plot devices, its emotional authenticity and well-developed characters create a compelling narrative about the courage required to embrace unexpected connections and second […]
Month: June 2025
Megan Giddings returns with her most ambitious work yet, weaving a tapestry of loss, love, and otherworldly possibility that challenges both our understanding of family bonds and the nature of reality itself. Meet Me at the Crossroads stands as a testament to Giddings’ evolving mastery of speculative fiction, offering readers a profound meditation on grief […]
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Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh
Renée Ahdieh’s adult debut Park Avenue arrives with the weight of expectation befitting a #1 New York Times bestselling author transitioning from YA fantasy to contemporary adult fiction. Pitched as “Crazy Rich Asians meets Succession,” this novel follows Jia Song, a newly minted junior partner at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, as she becomes entangled […]
Ann Liang returns with her most ambitious and emotionally resonant novel yet in Never Thought I’d End Up Here, delivering a story that transcends the typical young adult romance formula. Following the success of her previous works including If You Could See the Sun, This Time It’s Real, and I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, […]
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The Goal by Elle Kennedy
The Goal by Elle Kennedy on September 26, 2016 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / New Adult, Fiction / Romance / Sports Pages: 350 Format: eBook, Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “My goal, once upon a time, was to succeed. I didn’t realize that success wasn’t grades or scholarships or achievements, […]
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A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen
A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen on May 13, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Viking Pages: 416 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads A Curse Carved in Bone delivers a powerful and satisfying conclusion to The Saga of the […]
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Run For The Hills by Kevin Wilson
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson on May 13, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Southern Pages: 256 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads As soon as I saw the cover of Run for the Hills featuring a PT Cruiser, I knew I had to read it—my […]
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Be Scared, But Be Brave by Maura Jortner
I’m a huge scaredy cat. I don’t use this term lightly, nor without full knowledge of its meaning; I live with a seventeen-pound cat named Shiloh who is frightened of many things, including: the vent under the pantry, shoes, the occasional misplaced school bag, any new item put on the kitchen table, and the cat […]
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Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox on July 3, 2025 Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 336 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Today is Sophie Matthews’s sixteenth birthday […]
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Murderland by Caroline Fraser
Few nonfiction books disturb as profoundly as Caroline Fraser’s Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. With unnerving clarity and relentless depth, Fraser interrogates the serial killer epidemic of the 1970s and ’80s, anchoring it not in the minds of monsters alone but in the poisoned earth and corroded conscience of industrial […]