Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth starts in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls in New England, where two girls make a secret club called the Plain Bad Heroines Society. But their clandestine meetings are brought to an abrupt end when their bodies are found, covered in yellow jacket stingers. Then, more deaths …
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Book Review | The House in the Cerulean Sea (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Look, I know that 2020 has been a dumpster fire on a sinking ship that’s leaking …
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Book Review | American Dirt (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Most of you will have heard how this book has stirred up a lot of controversy since its publication in …
Book Review | Such a Fun Age (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Kiley Reid’s debut Such a Fun Age, Emira is struggling with what she wants to do with …
Book Review | After the Dam
After the Dam is a novel by Amy Hassinger about a woman named Rachel, who—shortly after having her first child—leaves abruptly to visit her ailing grandmother in her childhood home. There, she finds her grandmother in a diminishing mental state, and finds that she can’t bring herself to trust her caretaker, Diane, a longtime friend …
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