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Nice Girls

In the very beginning of Nice Girls, by Catherine Dang, Ivy League Mary gets expelled from Cornell when she slugs…

3 years ago

Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan

Soniah Kamal's Unmarriageable is an warm story about sisterhood and friendship, as well as a love letter to Pride and Prejudice. The five…

3 years ago

The Good Sister

The Good Sister is another amazing domestic suspense by Sally Hepworth. Twin sisters, Rose and Fern, are particularly close after a…

4 years ago

Astrid Sees All

Astrid Sees All, by Natalie Standiford, is about both a youthful embrace of all the experiences offered in 1980s Manhattan,…

4 years ago

‘The Plot’ by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz, tells the story of a dark plot for a bestseller, and an even darker…

4 years ago

House of Gold

When Natasha Solomons' House of Gold opens, the Goldbaum banking family has a branch in every European country, and the rules…

4 years ago

The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner's upcoming novel The Lost Apothecary is a dual-timeline story set in London.

4 years ago

Debutante / The Last Debutantes

I was excited to read The Last Debutantes, by Georgie Blalock, because I loved Anne Melville's novel Debutante. Both stories…

4 years ago

“The Obsession” by Jesse Q Sutanto

The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto is a suspense novel about a twisted high school romance. The story is told…

4 years ago

“The Wedding Night” is Not a Thriller

The Wedding Night, by Harriet Walker, was not at all what I was expecting, but held some lovely scenes about…

4 years ago

The Family Upstairs

In The Family Upstairs, Libby has always known she was adopted, but on her twenty-fifth birthday, she discovers she's inherited…

4 years ago

Trade Secrets

By now, whenever Marcus and Perilla start talking about having a relaxing time, I'm pretty sure someone's about to find…

4 years ago

ARC Review: The Girls Are All So Nice Here

The Girls Are All So Nice Here, by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, is an unsettling, dual-timeline suspense novel. Ambrosia's keeping some…

4 years ago

The Four Winds

The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah, is an emotional epic, all about the life in the Dust Bowl and American…

4 years ago

Getting Started In Book Blogging

Every book blog needs recent releases and upcoming books to stay fresh and lively. Blogging about new releases lets you…

4 years ago

Everybody Rise

Everybody Rise is a lifestyle-porn New York adventure with a likeable protagonist, a middle-class girl pretending to the world of deb balls and…

4 years ago

The Two Mrs. Carlyles

The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindell is a twisty historical thriller, with a deeply unreliable narrator. From childhood, Violet…

5 years ago

Please See Us

Please See Us is a slow-burning thriller about all the invisible women of seedy, run-down Atlantic City. In the A-plot,…

5 years ago

Perennials

Perennials by Mandy Berman centers around a summer camp, and the format matches the setting. Stories are told in short,…

5 years ago

Paper Son

First of all, I have to admit that when I started Paper Son, I didn't realize it was number twelve…

5 years ago

The Women In Black

The Women in Black is about four coworkers in Goode's lady's clothing department in 1950's Sydney.   I love ensemble novels,…

5 years ago

A Hundred Suns

I was already interested A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe after reading her wonderful previous novel, The Gilded Years. In…

5 years ago

Tidelands

Do you know how much I wanted to read Philippa Gregory's new novel Tidelands? I requested it on NetGalley, but then…

5 years ago

Pretty Guilty Women

I was first attracted to Pretty Guilty Women on NetGalley because I thought it was a Liane Moriarty novel, Truly Madly Guilty, so…

5 years ago

The Farm

In Joanne Ramos’ new novel, The Farm,  healthy, beautiful and financially desperate young women are pregnancy surrogates living at the…

5 years ago