Tag: mystery
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Book Review: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
I’ve procrastinated reading this book for so long because I’ve read almost all of Ruta Sepetys’ books by now. Is it any surprise that this has been another five-star read for me?…
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Book Review: The Engraver’s Secret by Lisa Medved
I’m a sucker for art history, and I haven’t read many (if any) books set in this time period and setting. How could I not pick up this book?!…
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Book Review: The Secret War by Stacy Lynn Miller
For once, I was aware that I would be starting in the middle of a series. The synopsis was too intriguing to pass up. Unfortunately, within a couple of chapters, I realized that this is a series that absolutely needs to be read from the beginning. I was missing a lot of the backstory, and…
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Book Review: The Clinic by Cate Quinn
I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve read a true thriller. This was a good book to reintroduce me to the genre. It ran long, but at least it was a page-turner…
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Book Review: The Guest in Room 120 by Sara Ackerman
Inspired by the true story of Jane Stanford, The Guest in Room 120 follows two timelines. In 1905, Iliahi Baldwin, a hotel employee, kept journal entries discussing Jane Stanford’s time at the Moana. In 2005, Zoe Finch attends a writing conference at the same hotel and ends up in the same room in which Jane Stanford had…
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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!…