Summer in the Bluffs is about a childless African American power couple, Ama and Omar, and their three goddaughters. Omar is gone and Ama wants the goddaughters to spend the summer with her one last time on her estate on Martha’s Vineyard, before she gifts one of them the house. First of all, I really liked the characters in this book. Yes, all of them were flawed, but they were interesting and passionate and each … Read More “Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin” »
I really enjoyed this book, and I especially liked the author’s next-level writing style, which almost seemed itself musical with parts of the book that were smooth and easy, rising into crescendos that pushed David and Ameena’s relationship almost to its limits. Ameena, a Pakistani-Muslim writer by day and artist by night, left her home in Manchester for New York to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage by her very conservative and religious parents. … Read More “David and Ameena by Ami Rao” »
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I read eight books in April, almost exclusively thrillers, and thrillers seem to eventually all blur together when you read enough of them. Reading them was a great way to relax my brain a bit while still getting used to being back at work, though. If thrillers are your thing, then I’d say check … Read More “April Book Roundup” »
This one took a bit of time to get into, but with about 100 pages to go, I was hooked and needed to know how it ended. Penny was adopted when she was 4-years-old after Grace finds her abandoned in a playground. Now, twelve years later, she is found, clutching a knife and kneeling over her birth mother’s body, covered in her blood. She says she doesn’t remember anything, and is locked in a psychiatric … Read More “The Perfect Daughter by D. J. Palmer” »
While this was a fun thriller set in the perfect setting — a hunting lodge in the middle of nowhere in Scotland — it was very similar to The Guest List. A group of old college decide to spend their New Year’s Eve at a remote hunting lodge in Scotland. There’s a lot of drinking, a lot of reminiscing, a lot of remembering why so many of them don’t really like each other. When there … Read More “The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley” »