Category: Book Reviews
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Review: Regretting You
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…
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Review: A Woman Is No Man
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,…
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Review: American Dirt
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…
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Review: Dear Edward
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…
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Review: The Family Upstairs
I cannot get enough of Lisa Jewell’s brand of twisty, creepy suspense. When Libby Jones turns twenty-five years old, she learns that she has inherited a house from her birth parents. A very expensive, beautiful house with a dark secret: her birth parents, along with an unknown man, were found dead of an apparent suicide…
Bradeigh Godfrey 