There’s something horribly wrong at Lost Lake… B.E. Smith’s Shallow Rock makes one thing immediately clear: it is neither a standard crime caper nor a simple ghost story. It is a novel about inheritance—of guilt, of violence, of myth—and about what happens when a community tells the same story for long enough that it becomes […]
A thoughtful musing on midlife self-isolation and corporate frustration set in the early days of COVID-19 Gregory Venters’ Destiny and Other Follies is a successful meditation on how a middle-aged man’s emotional withdrawal alters his career and marriage. Calder Brandt, an industry consultant for a company called Scientific Management, is perpetually undermined in his attempts […]
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James on March 20, 2018 Genres: Fiction / Historical / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants–the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It’s called Idlewild Hall. […]
Ana Huang has spent the last few years building one of contemporary romance’s most beloved interconnected universes, and King of Gluttony by Ana Huang arrives as the sixth course in her Kings of Sin series. After watching Dante, Kai, Dominic, Xavier, and Vuk find their happily ever afters, fans have been waiting for Sebastian Laurent’s […]
Synopsis: Kade Tobin needs every bit of his wisdom as the leader of a rural spiritual community to remain true to his core values as murders pile up around him. Drawn into helping to solve the mystery by a sheriff’s detective, Kade sorts through the array of quirky seekers on the community’s land, only to […]
Some novels create such a complete atmosphere that readers spend years trying to find it again. Rebecca is one of… The post 15 best books like Rebecca for readers who love Gothic suspense appeared first on She Reads Everything.
Just Another Summer Enemy by Ariel Hendrix Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Just Another Summer Enemy is the kind of beachy rom-com you reach for when you want something light, a little steamy, and guaranteed to end with a satisfying HEA. I went into this one completely blind, and it delivered exactly the mix […]
Why should you read indie? The answer’s not what you think. I’m an indie book fanatic. I run an indie book review website. My newsletter is called Read Indie for crying out loud. But I wouldn’t dream of reading ONLY indie books. That’s not what this is about. It’s about the books. If a book comes out […]
A life defined not by answers, but by the persistence of questions Michal Mendelsohn’s Rabbi, Your Cleavage Is Showing is at first glance an amusing religious memoir. Yet what emerges is something far more intimate than amusement: a life shaped by isolation, where faith isn’t a starting point, but something that comes to define her. […]
An entertaining, mysterious, and spicy read about a budding relationship and the family drama that could change everything Nina’s about to take a business trip to Brussels to conduct research for her boss’s new book. A famous author and close family friend, Henry, is not only her employer but also her dad’s closest friend. As […]