Just a girl and her books
THE GIRLS OF SUMMER | Katie Bishop 06.06.2023 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer … Continue reading Book Review: The Girls of Summer
BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT | Ella Berman 04.04.2023 | Berkley Rating: 4/5 stars Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline’s death. But that didn’t stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the … Continue reading Book Review: Before We Were Innocent
THE MARY SHELLEY CLUB | Goldy Moldavsky 04.13.2021 | Henry Holt & Co. Rating: 5/5 stars New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she … Continue reading Book Review: The Mary Shelley Club
INSOMNIA | Sarah Pinborough 03.30.2022 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars Emma Averell loves her life—her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband—but it wasn’t always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with … Continue reading Book Review: Insomnia
IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE | Ashley Winstead 08.03.2021 | Sourcebooks Rating: 5/5 stars A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller … Continue reading Book Review: In My Dreams I Hold A Knife
THE FAKE | Zoe Whittall 03.21.2023 | Ballantine Books Rating: 4/5 stars A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But when the jig is up, they ghost, and you’re left wondering if you ever mattered After the death of her wife, Shelby feels … Continue reading Book Review: The Fake
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS | Jen Wilde 05.09.2023 | Wednesday Books Rating: 4/5 stars You are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school’s epic masquerade ball. As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City, Waverly is used to masking to fit … Continue reading Book Review: This is the Way the World Ends
THE CHATEAU | Jaclyn Goldis 05.23.23 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, … Continue reading Book Review: The Chateau
THE DAYDREAMS | Laura Hankin05.02.2023 | BerkleyRating: 5/5 stars Back in 2004, The Daydreams had it all: a cast of innocent-seeming teenagers acting and singing their hearts out, amazing ratings, and a will-they-or-won’t-they romance that steamed up fan fiction forums. Then, during the live season two finale, it all imploded, leaving everyone scrambling to understand … Continue reading Book Review: The Daydreams
CAMP ZERO | Michelle Min Sterling 04.04.2023 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets. Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives … Continue reading Book Review: Camp Zero
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