PEOPLE TO FOLLOW | Olivia Worley 10.31.2023 | Wednesday Books Rating: 4/5 stars A reality show on a remote Caribbean island. Ten teen influencers. One dead body. Welcome to “In Real Life,” the hot new reality show that forces social media’s reigning kings and queens to unplug for three weeks and “go live” without any … Continue reading Book Review: People to Follow
Month: November 2023
Book Review: Silver Nitrate
SILVER NITRATE | Silvia Moreno-Garcia 07.18.2023 | Del Rey Rating: 3.5/5 stars Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, … Continue reading Book Review: Silver Nitrate
Book Review: The Fiction Writer
THE FICTION WRITER | Jillian Cantor 11.28.2023 | Park Row Rating: 4/5 stars Last night I dreamt I went to Malibu again… The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel—a retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca—was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she’s … Continue reading Book Review: The Fiction Writer
Book Review: The Grimmer
THE GRIMMER | Naben Ruthnum 09.26.2023 | ECW Press Rating: 3/5 stars After his father returns from treatment for addiction, highschooler Vish ― lover of metal music and literature ― is uncertain what the future holds. It doesn’t help that everyone seems to know about the family’s troubles, and they stand out doubly as one … Continue reading Book Review: The Grimmer
Book Review: West Heart Kill
WEST HEART KILL | Dann McDorman 10.24.2023 | Knopf Rating: 4.5/5 stars An isolated hunt club. A raging storm. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. When private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New … Continue reading Book Review: West Heart Kill
Book Review: Daisy Darker
DAISY DARKER | Alice Feeney 08.30.2022 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off … Continue reading Book Review: Daisy Darker
Book Review: Last to Leave the Room
LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM | Caitlin Starling 10.10.2023 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 3/5 stars The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting … Continue reading Book Review: Last to Leave the Room
Book Review: Vampires of El Norte
VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE | Isabel Cañas 08.15.2023 | Berkley Rating: 3.5/5 stars As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that … Continue reading Book Review: Vampires of El Norte