Category: contemporary fiction
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Book Review: Break Me Down by Anna Downes
Former child star Georgia Lane leaves her home in Australia, ready to start fresh and make her comeback in LA. There, she hits it off with Henry, an inspiring actor who invites her to his classes. Georgia is instantly in her element and finds great respect for Marianna, the teacher, despite her intense and unconventional…
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Book Review: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
I accidentally read this series out of order, beginning with Just for the Summer. Although the books can be read as standalones, I realized while reading Part of Your World that I was definitely missing some nuance and backstory/context…
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Book Review: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
In the early 1960s, a young Mi’kmaq girl goes missing while her family is in Maine working as berry pickers. Her brother Joe, the last person to see her and who had left her sitting alone on a rock, will feel the impact of this day for the rest of his life…
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Top 5: Favorite reads of 2025 (so far)
The first half of 2025 has been such a fantastic year of books for me! I feel like this list may as well drop the ‘so far’ tag because I can’t imagine any books that will be able to top the reading experiences I had with these books. This list only includes fiction books. Nonfiction…
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Book Review: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Coyote and Rodeo have been living on the road for the past five years. They don’t and won’t talk about the past, the tragic event that led to this new lifestyle. But lately, Coyote has been feeling the loneliness that comes with living campsite to campsite and gas station to gas station…
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Book Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
I knew going into this book that the style of writing was going to be different than what I am used to, so I actually started this as an audiobook to avoid the whole ‘no quotation marks’ issue. I have read books written in this style in the past and enjoyed them, so I wasn’t…
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Book Review: Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia
I went into this book blindly as it was a recommendation from a friend. On one hand, this enhanced my reading experience. On the other hand, had I known some elements of the story, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up on my own volition…
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Book Review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Going into this book, I’d read and heard a lot of mixed reviews saying that this book deviates from Emily Henry’s typical style. I wasn’t too concerned about this because the style of this book actually aligns more with my typical reading preferences, so I feel I was lucky in this regard…
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Book Review: The House of Promise by Indrajit Garai
I’ve read a number of Indrajit Garai’s books by now and all of them have impressed me. The House of Promise, however, I found to be exceptional. Given the time gaps between each of the books I’ve read, I’m struggling to pinpoint exactly what the difference is, but it’s there, and I’m all for it…
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Book Review: Michael Without Apology by Catherine Ryan Hyde
As a child, Michael was involved in a fireworks accident, nearly losing his life. This accident left him with disfiguring scars and put him in a foster home. Though his foster parents are loving (and almost too caring, he sometimes thinks), Michael struggles with the knowledge that his birth parents chose to keep his brother,…