Category: contemporary fiction
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Book Review: The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
(This review contains spoilers from the first book in the series, The Friend Zone.)…
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Book Review: My Boyfriend Is a Swamp Monster by Paige Lavoie
I enjoyed Paige Lavoie’s Mothman in Love series, and I was excited to check out the magical realism a swamp monster would bring!…
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Book Review: Just Friends by Haley Pham
As there has been a lot of talk about this book, I went into the story already knowing the beginning, middle, and end. I’m a casual fan of Haley Pham’s, so I don’t feel like I have a particularly strong bias one way or the other. Even before the reviews started dropping, I didn’t expect…
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Book Review: The Velvet Knife by Maureen Johnson
As usual when reading the Truly Devious series, after reading book five, I needed to know how the cliffhanger ends up being resolved. I was fortunate to have read it earlier this year, so it was still fairly fresh in my mind…
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Book Review: We Are Never Ever Solving This Murder by Sarah Fox
I’d had the chance to read the first book in this series when it came out, but I passed on it because it seemed to tread too much into romance (I like my mysteries/thrillers to be very focused on the mystery). I didn’t realize this was part of the same series, although I should have…
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Book Review: And Now, Back To You by B.K. Borrison
I think the thing that makes the Heartstrings series enjoyable to me is that I’ve (so far) never seen the movies that inspired the books. They feel nostalgic, yet I’m not trying to look for the comparison…
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Book Review: Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
I am inexplicably drawn to C.G. Drews’ books. I’ve been dabbling more in the horror genre lately, and I keep coming back to this author. The premises are so interesting…
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Book Review: Play It By Heart by Flick O’Mara
Ollie and Becca have been best friends for years. Alongside their friend Kennedy, their wedding business is thriving. When a high-profile celebrity books their services, their hopes for the future skyrocket…
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Book Review: The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
As soon as I saw that Audrey Hepburn was a character in this book (and on the cover of the edition I bought), I picked it up, no questions asked…
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Top 5: Books I Read in 2025 (Fiction)
Better late than never, right? I don’t know how a weeklong flu back in January threw me so off kilter for the entire first half of the year, but here we are. I’ve been struggling to keep up with writing my reviews as I finish a book, meaning I typically have to marathon it when…