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This book was EMOTIONAL and I AM NOT OKAY. I have been a huge fan of Colleen Oakley’s engaging and unique women’s fiction since I read her first novel a few years ago (I highly recommend checking out her backlist) so I knew I needed to read this one—especially when I read the hook: “Mia… Continue reading Review: You Were There Too
I really don’t know what Colleen Hoover’s secret is. Her prose is straightforward and her plots aren’t full of twists and turns. But every single time I read one of her books, I CANNOT put it down. I think it's the way she draws the reader right into the character's perspective so you feel every… Continue reading Review: Regretting You
This one has been a favorite of so many bookstagrammers, including several I respect and admire, that I knew I needed to get to it before the end of 2019. The story follows three generations of Palestinian-American women as they struggle to reconcile their individual desires with cultural expectations. Told in alternating points of view,… Continue reading Review: A Woman Is No Man
The book opens with one of the most riveting first chapters I’ve ever read: eight-year-old Luca and his mother Lydia hiding in the shower while their entire family is slaughtered in the backyard during a family party. It’s Acapulco, Mexico, and Lydia’s husband was a journalist who reported on the corruption and violence of the… Continue reading Review: American Dirt
I LOVED this story. Synopsis: One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business… Continue reading Review: Dear Edward
