A retiring novelist creates a small cemetery for her unfinished manuscripts on a small parcel of land she inherited from her father. The land is in the Dominican Republic, her hometown and the setting for many of her stories. Alvarez weaves several stories together to write an incredibly beautiful novel about humanity, love, violence, tradition, and home.
The Accidental Dating Experiment by Lauren Blakely, aka May's free Audible Plus rom-com, is steamy, hilarious, and fun! Andi Arndt and Jacob Morgan deliver fantastic performances to combine with a great story. Five stars!
Moonshade by S. J. West is the first book in the Vampire Conclave series. This book was published in 2016, but first came to my attention through a promotion on Kindle. I like the world building and rules in this series - as someone who has read MANY paranormal fiction series, sometimes it seems like [...]
The Husbands is a hilarious story about a woman who gets a new husband every time the last one climbs up into the attic. Five stars, must read!
The Princess of Las Vegas follows a Princess Diana impersonator who finds herself in the center of several high profile murders, and her closest family may be the ones setting her up.
My favorite book of 2024 so far - A scifi novel that reads like contemporary fiction. Annie is a lifelike robot with AI that continues to learn how to be more human, and how to please her owner, Doug.
The three books that I rated five stars this month are all so different from each other. A magnificent rom-com, the first book in a paranormal series about immortals, and an American History book about Reconstruction and Jim Crow. This goes to show that reading books out of your "comfort genre" from time to time [...]
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonnie Swann is the first book in what will be the Miss Sharp Investigates series, translated from German to English by Amy Bojang. A murder mystery at a senior citizen home share, it is senior citizen "Clue" where they can't remember where they hid the gun that shot [...]
I recently found a hardcover of Starling House at half priced books, and it was a great Spring break read. It's not sunny or beachy, it's eerie and creepy and maddening. That's more my style. Jump to Book Club Questions - Note: I do not use AI to write book club questions. Gothic Fiction Gothic [...]
Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen, co-author of four of the best thrillers I've ever read, released her first solo thriller in August of 2023. Gone Tonight didn't disappoint. It was unique, twisty, dual-narrated thriller where both narrators are somewhat unreliable and the reader is left in suspense, uncovering clues that lead to an unexpected ending. [...]
