Tag: contemporary fiction
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Book Review: Gifts by Lesley Bootiman
It’s been some time since I’ve picked up a multigenerational story. Gifts has been like any other I’ve read, with a large focus on a genetic illness along with external life circumstances…
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Book Review: No Passengers by Elainie La Force
In this prequel to Elainie La Force’s upcoming thriller, which kicks off the ‘Displaced’ series, we are introduced to an unassuming bank teller, Anastasia Pestova, who finds herself in the middle of a money laundering scheme, forcing her to run. With authorities on her tail and a useless passport, the stakes are high…
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Book Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
I bought this book years ago but I couldn’t remember why I was drawn to it, so I went in blindly. I don’t think I would have picked this up had I taken a deeper look into the content. Alas, it held my attention to finish it…
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Book Review: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
I have been loving this genre of cozy Japanese magical realism books lately. A small part of me was nervous that I would be fatiguing myself with these types of books by picking this up relatively soon after the last one (given it’s not a go-to), but it’s now one of my favorites in the…
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Book Review: Terms and Traditions by Morgan Taylor Giesbrecht
I’ve been on the hunt for more sweet romance books. I saw this one recommended on Instagram and/or YouTube and thought it sounded like a nice, cozy Christmas read…
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Book Review: A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn
I chose this book as my Book of the Month pick last December but never got around to it. I’ve been looking forward to picking it up all year. At first, I felt like the wait was worth it, but approaching the second half of the book, I started to retreat…
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Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borrison
I will never grow tired of A Christmas Carol retellings. I don’t know if I would necessarily consider Good Spirits a complete retelling given the major shift in dynamics, but the concept is there, and it feels fresh…
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Book Review: If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia
I simply could not pass this book by when I heard that it’s a romcom set in the 90s. Better yet, it’s set in the 90s at a New England bed and breakfast during the fall. I picked the book up around Thanksgiving, which is always the time of year I feel myself craving some…
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Book Review: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borrison
This has been one of my most anticipated reads of 2025. For the past couple of years, I’ve gone back and forth about wanting to pick it up because I loved the cover, but I had other Christmas-themed books I’d been saving to read. After reading my first B.K. Borrison book earlier this year, I…
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Book Review: A Fig for All the Devils by C.S. Fritz
I normally don’t reach for horror, but after hearing Ian Gubeli talking about it on YouTube, I couldn’t pick it up fast enough. The passages he shared were stuck in my head before I even read the book…