I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In The Undetectables, Mallory hasn’t been up to much for the past two years, due to her fibromyalgia. She hasn’t …
Tag: adult fiction
Book Review | Starling House
I'm ready for cooler weather, as evidenced by my current reading choices. Bring me autumn, please! In Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, we meet Opal, a young woman who’s stuck in the tiny town of Eden, scraping a living so she can get her bright younger brother into a better school. Eden is nowhere, …
Book Review | Stars in Your Eyes
In Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender, Logan Gray is known as the bad boy of Hollywood, a great actor but not a great person. And then there’s Matthew “Mattie” Cole, the up-and-comer who everyone loves. So they’re an unlikely pairing when they’re cast as the two main characters in a queer romcom movie, …
Book Review | Lessons in Chemistry
I finally read a book that’s on the adult fiction New York Times bestseller list! Well, okay, I’ve read books that meet that criteria before, but it was usually before or at the same time they hit the list, not after seeing it listed there for months and months on end. (Also, hitting the New …
Book Review | What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts) relates five loosely connected stories of five different people who visit a community library in Tokyo, only to find themselves changing for the better, all because of an unexpected book recommendation by the enigmatic librarian. There’s …
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