Just a girl and her books
IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT | Harriet Tyce 02.21.2023 | Sourcebooks Rating: 3/5 stars It's New Year's Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh's best postcodes. It's a moment for old friends to set the past to rights - and move on. The night sky is alive with fireworks … Continue reading Book Review: It Ends At Midnight
IT’S ONE OF US | J.T. Ellison 02.21.2023 | Mira Books Rating: 4/5 stars Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She desperately wants to be a mother. Fertility treatments and IVF keep failing. And … Continue reading Book Review: It’s One of Us
THE GOLDEN SPOON | Jessa Maxwell 03.07.2023 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Production for the tenth season of Bake Week is ready to begin at the gothic estate of host and celebrity chef Betsy Martin, and everything seems perfect. The tent is up, the top-tier ingredients are aligned, and the crew has their cameras … Continue reading Book Review: The Golden Spoon
JACKAL by Erin E. Adams 10/4/2022 | Bantam Rating: 4.5/5 stars Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive … Continue reading Book Review: Jackal
THE ICE COVEN | Max Seeck (Jessica Niemi #2) 09.28.2021 | Berkley Rating: 4.5/5 stars CAUTION: Potential series spoilers ahead! Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten … Continue reading Book Review: The Ice Coven
SHIVER | Allie Reynolds 10.27.2020 | G.P. Putnam & Sons Rating: 4/5 stars When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. It might have been a decade since she saw them last, but she's … Continue reading Book Review: Shiver
SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER | Lucy A. Snyder 02.21.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires an appetite for a woman and her brain. Why does … Continue reading Book Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster
WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS | Kate Alice Marshall 01.17.2023 | Flatiron Books Rating: 4/5 stars Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The … Continue reading Book Review: What Lies in the Woods
STONE COLD FOX | Rachel Koller Croft 02.14.2023 | Berkley Rating: 4.5/5 stars Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. After a lifetime of forced instruction in the art of swindling men by her … Continue reading Book Review: Stone Cold Fox
Anon Pls. | DeuxMoi 11.08.2022 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old style Instagram account and turns it into a celebrity gossip blog on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. But when the account grows overnight and, … Continue reading Book Review: Anon Pls.
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