This book has been on my TBR list since it was released, but it took my book club choosing it for our June book to move it up on my list, and I’m so glad I did. This was an understated and haunting novel about a family split apart when their teenage twins disappear and only one of them returns. It tells the story of three generations of the women in this family. Desiree and … Read More “The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett” »
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When everything in your life is falling part, there is nothing more healing than working in an old bookstore with a handsome but cantankerous man. Or, at least, that’s what makes this specific kind of romance/chick lit novel so much fun. When Thea loses her job and finds out her husband is having an affair with her close friend, she is crushed, but she soon receives notice from a lawyer that a distance uncle has … Read More “The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser” »
This was May’s pick for one of my (two) local book clubs, and while the ending felt a bit rushed, this was a fast-paced, dark thriller that would make a great summer read. When her mother gets a “normal” job in Lake Tahoe and sends Nina to a fancy high school, Nina can imagine a future for herself with a prestigious college degree and a high-paying career. However, everything quickly falls apart when her mother’s … Read More “Pretty Things by Janelle Brown” »
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” »