Category: mystery
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Book Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
I knew I was gambling with this book because I didn’t love The Wishing Game even though I really wanted to. I was hopeful when I saw that The Lost Story is supposedly inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia, but I didn’t see it aside from a second realm, and that’s a massive stretch if we’re looking for comparison…
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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: 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: Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club by Mary-Jane Riley
Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club is the first book in a new series set post-World War II in the early days of the Cold War. An intriguing era, for sure!…
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Book Review: The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose
(This review contains spoilers from the first two books in the series as well as the novella.)…
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Book Review: The Last Pope by Luis Miguel Rocha
Well… I feel a bit strange writing this review now in light of Pope Francis’ passing (although I finished the book earlier this month). While this book is set before his Papacy, it’s strange timing on my part as I’ve had this book on my shelf for a little while now…
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Book Review: Etiquette for Lovers and Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
A seaside town in the 1960s is perhaps the perfect place for a murder. For Billie, a murder mystery is an exciting change of pace in her humdrum life. But that change of pace puts her in a precarious predicament…
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Book Review: The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
The premise of this book was fantastic at a glance, but the execution was a letdown to say the least. The only reason I kept reading was because I just couldn’t look away. I think I somehow hoped there would be something redeeming by the end…
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Book Review: The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
Tasked with leading a twelve-women expedition to the Arctic in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, Virginia Reeve, though an experienced guide, quickly realizes that she’s taken on more than she intended…