Strangers by Belle Burden is a memoir told in four parts, tracing the life of Belle Burden and her marriage to James. What begins as a love story slowly unravels into something unrecognizable. Set during COVID, the book opens at the breaking point ...
Summary A Café That Bends Time Tucked into a small back alley of Tokyo, Café Funiculi Funicula has been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. But this is no ordinary café. Local legend has it that one particular seat offers ...
Love at First Sight tells the story of two people- Jessie and Cal, who meet by chance and spend an unforgettable night together. They go on several dates in a single evening, laugh, talk, and share moments that make them feel deeply connected. By the ...
4 Stars This turned out to be a surprisingly comforting and engaging read, the kind that feels simple on the surface but works its way under your skin as you go. Honestly, with how overhyped this book was, I was prepared to roll my eyes and move ...
I really loved this book. at the end of Every Summer After, Carley Fortune writes: “Writing Every Summer After was an escape for me. I hope reading it was for you as well.” And that’s exactly what it was for me—an escape. I read it every day on my ...
Katabasis literally means “a descent downward”, into an underworld, real or metaphorical. Two Cambridge graduate students studying “magick” descend into Hell to rescue their recently dead professor. But beyond the sorcery, the book lays bare ...
I really enjoyed reading The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren. From the very first chapters, I was excited and happy, like a child getting ice cream. The story grabbed my attention and didn’t let go. The plot is about Anna and Liam, who marry ...
The Masterpiece isn’t necessarily a book I would have picked up on my own. However, I saw my brother reading it, and since my siblings rarely read books, that caught my attention, and I picked it up. One of the reasons I started blogging was to ...
I have had Yellowface on my TBR list for over a year, but never really found the motivation to pick it up until my book club nominated it as our book of the month. That was the push I needed to read it finally. Yellowface follows June ...
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins is the long-awaited second prequel to the iconic Hunger Games series, following The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This book takes us back to the brutal world of Panem, set decades before Katniss Everdeen’s ...
Dream Count follows the lives of four Nigerian women—Chiamaka, a travel writer; her best friend, Zikora; her cousin, Omelogor; and her housekeeper, Kadiatou. It’s a pandemic-era novel about grief, love, friendship, and the immigrant experience. ...
She Started It follows four childhood best friends—Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe—who reunite for a luxurious, all-expenses-paid bachelorette trip to a Caribbean island. Their former schoolmate, Poppy Greer, is the bride-to-be, they are shocked to ...
I read this in the middle of my burnout and let me just say - however comically, this book captured the burnout perfectly. You’ll laugh reading this book. From the first chapters through all the shenanigans from Shasa to the workers at The ...
I’m not sure how I felt about Onyx Storm. It had a lot of information—but somehow, also a lot of nothing. There were journeys, side quests, and new characters popping up like we were supposed to know them. I get why some readers found this book a bit ...
One Test. One Serum. One Truth. Axiom Book One Axiom is my first book of the year. I picked it up because I kept seeing it on TikTok. Normally, I don’t read dystopian novels — I prefer watching the movies (even though I know the books ...
The Weight of Grief and the Hope of Rediscovery I watched life pass me by for a year. I lived a year dissociated from my reality alive, but not truly living. I was broken and desperately trying to fix myself until I simply stopped trying. ...
Book 1 of 6 The Improbable Meet-Cute collection I loved The Exception To The Rule by Christina Lauren. It was so cute and bubbly. I felt so good after reading this. I ended up reading the entire The Improbable Meet-Cute collection, ...
I absolutely loved The Seven Year Slip. The story follows Clementine, an overworked book publicist grieving the loss of her beloved aunt. She moves into her late aunt’s rent-controlled Upper East Side apartment. While she's getting ...
I almost gave up on this book for some reason. I liked it, and I really felt Emma’s struggles, but I wondered how they’d end up together. I didn’t see that happening with just the power of love, so I struggled a bit. But I loved all of Abby's ...
An epic and sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed. I loved powerless. It was indeed a combination of Hunger Games and Red Queen. I wasn't expecting to like it. Apparently, it’s overhyped but I hadn’t seen much hype on it until I needed to read ...