I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. After two years away, March Briscoe is returning to his hometown, Olympus. He’d been essentially driven out after the revelation …
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Book Review | The Postscript Murders (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths. 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 Postscript Murders, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur is approached by a caretaker who insists that the death of …
Book Review | Plain Bad Heroines
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 …
Book Review | The Extraordinaries
I’m trying not to feel guilty for reading something that isn’t from my massive (and ever-growing) pile of advance copies, but considering how much I ADORE The House in the Cerulean Sea, I wanted to give Klune’s young adult book a try. In The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune, Nick Bell is, for the most part, …
Book Review | Project Hail Mary (ARC)
I got to read an electronic advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. And by that, I mean I got to attend a virtual chat featuring Weir and a couple other authors recently, and was downloading the ARC before he even finished talking (ah, work perks). Anyway, since this version is …
