Category: contemporary fiction
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Book Review: Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
I’m almost always up for a book centered on family drama. Banyan Moon brings this to the table with the extra layers of generational struggles and the differences brought on by being raised in different cultures…
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Book Review: She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa
Within pages, this book captured my head. Both cozy and emotional, any cat lover will appreciate at least something about this book…
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Top 5: Favorite reads of 2023 (so far)
It’s a bit past the official halfway mark of the year but it’s only just occurred to me to share some of my favorite reads of the year so far…
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Book Review: Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernières
I first heard about this book in a YouTube video and decided to check it out when I saw that my library had a copy. It lived up to its cozy recommendation. A quick and easy read, and at its core, cute…
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Book Review: Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
For some reason, I’m a person who tends to prefer the sequels over the first installments. I read this book back to back with When in Rome and found myself much more attached to Annie and Will than Amelia and Noah…
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Book Review: When in Rome by Sarah Adams
It’s summer! There’s something about the warmer weather that draws me into romcoms though it’s not my go-to genre. When in Rome has been catching my eye for a couple of months now. Admittedly, I was very disappointed the book wasn’t actually set in Rome, Italy, but it grew on me…
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Book Review: Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Continuing with my new hobby of reading the books behind the movies Kelly Macdonald has starred in, I finally arrived at Dirt Music and savored every. single. page. Tell me a book has emotionally damaged characters and there’s no need to say more. I’m in…
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Book Review: Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
It’s been a few months since I’ve read a psychological thriller and I can’t think of a better one to have come back to the genre. With quiet twists and extraordinarily flawed yet lovable characters, I was hooked…
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Book Review: For Better and Worse by E.B. Roshan
This is the third book I’m reading by E.B. Roshan and it was a treat as always. For Better and Worse is the fourth book in the Sevia series but it could potentially be read as a standalone. I’ve read the first book in the series and this book is the continuation…
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Book Review: The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
I’ve been on a literary kick so this book came along at the perfect time. This might have been the first time all year I read my Book of the Month selection in the same month I chose it…