Fiction Reviews

I included Chloe Benjamin’s novel The Immortalists on my list of Books I’m Looking Forward to in 2018 over eight months ago. ...

Let’s be real, the cover of Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ latest novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree is gorgeous. Like the “drunken tree” ...

Meghan MacLean Weir’s debut novel The Book of Essie is about seventeen-year-old Esther Hicks, also known as Essie. Her father is an ...

Amy Blumenfeld’s The Cast centers around a group of friends — Becca, Jordana, Seth, Holly and Lex — who are bonded and ...

Anstey Harris’ novel Goodbye, Paris is being marketed as “Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant,” which is definitely what drew me to the ...

I read Koren Zailckas’ memoir Smashed about her “drunken girlhood” over a decade ago, and I absolutely loved it. It was a ...

Joyce Carol Oates’ novel We Were the Mulvaneys has been on my shelf forever. I picked it up at a used book ...

Today, I’m excited to be participating a new monthly TBR linkup, hosted by Rachel at Never Enough Novels, Allison at My Novel ...

I was unexpectedly captivated by Gin Phillips’ novel Fierce Kingdom, which I read as part of the Book Challenge by Erin earlier ...

When I’m not reading, cooking or writing about it, I’m often at work. And, for those of you who don’t know, I ...

I have never before had to request that my library purchase I book I wanted to read, but for Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle ...

My book club recently selected Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, a book that was selected in one of my other book clubs last ...

Hannah Lynn’s second novel The Afterlife of Walter Augustus was actually brought to my attention when the author herself reached out to ...

For those of you stopping by as part of the blog tour for The Afterlife of Walter Augustus, welcome! I was so ...

Sometimes I hear so many good things about a book that I request it from the library without even really seeing what ...

In Charles Soule’s first novel The Oracle Year, the comic book writer explores a clever concept about the power of prediction. The ...

Many have commented on the beauty of this book cover. Indeed, Ruth Hogan’s The Keeper of Lost Things does feature some gorgeous ...

Lisa See’s historical fiction novel The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane is a family saga that begins in a remote mountain village ...

I went into Sally Thorne’s novel The Hating Game without much research. I’d seen some chatter about it in my online book ...

I don’t always read “happy” books, but I typically do avoid scary ones. My imagination is too active for me to be ...