Just a girl and her books
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.
THE SPITE HOUSE | Johnny Compton 02.07.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he’s desperate for money. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson … Continue reading Book Review: The Spite House
THE BLACK QUEEN | Jumata Emill 01.31.2023 | Delacorte Press Rating: 4/5 stars Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating. Tinsley McArthur was supposed to be queen. Not … Continue reading Book Review: The Black Queen
WHITE HORSE | Erika T. Wurth 11.01.2022 | Flatiron Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse have defined urban Indian Kari James’s life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently … Continue reading Book Review: White Horse
THE TENANT | Katrine Engberg (Kørner & Werner #1) 09.01.2020 | Gallery Press Rating: 3/5 stars When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they … Continue reading Book Review: The Tenant
THIS MIGHT HURT | Stephanie Wrobel 02.22.2022 | Berkley Books Rating: 4/5 stars Natalie Collins hasn't heard from her sister in more than half a year. The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to crying in the shower about their dead mother. She told Natalie she was … Continue reading Book Review: This Might Hurt
FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN | Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #3) 01.31.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing bloodstains for various unexpected reasons―but none quite like this. When Finlay and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a luxury car … Continue reading Book Review: Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
TELL ME I’M WORTHLESS | Alison Rumfitt 01.17.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3.5/5 stars Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself … Continue reading Book Review: Tell Me I’m Worthless
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