Book Reviews

The island is atmospheric. The professor is devastating. The parasite is creepy. And then the tropes kicked in.

Natalie Heller Mills was perfect at being alive. She was also a liar, a narcissist, and completely incapable of seeing herself clearly. I was “equal parts intoxicated with and disgusted …

A woman finds her murdered lover and cleans the crime scene instead of calling the police. It is a good premise. This will probably work for you, if crime fiction …

Whistler is a book about love, not the romantic kind, but the kind that forms between two people and how it impacts their lives over decades. Ann Patchett writes that …

Maurice Swift will do whatever it takes to succeed. He will beg, borrow, steal, and worse. And the most unsettling thing is how you find yourself hoping he gets away …

Gild is fine. I mean that as neither a compliment nor an insult. It is a perfectly serviceable fantasy.

A grieving young woman. Her uncle and his two sons. A remote mountain cabin. And a book that asks you to find the romance in all of it. I couldn’t.

One thousand and twenty-four pages. A love story I was told was all-consuming and a world I was told was unforgettable. I wanted to believe both of those things. I …

The house has more rooms than it should. The family at the door won’t leave. And somewhere in the supplemental documents, someone is sending a message in Morse code. We …

If you loved Shield of Sparrows, book two answers your questions, raises new ones, and leaves you wanting the third. It also features a child, a lot of blinking, and …