Book Reviews & Recommendations
Alex Finlay has built a reputation for delivering fast-paced thrillers filled with secrets, family drama, and jaw-dropping twists. With Parents Weekend, he returns with a story that taps into every parent’s worst nightmare: sending your child off to college only for them […]
Charlie Donlea has made a name for himself by crafting thrillers that leave readers reeling, and his latest novel Guess Again lives up to the title in every way. This is a book that dares you to play detective, only to pull […]
James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a sweeping, jazz-inflected tale of community, prejudice, and resilience. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in Historical Fiction, this novel opens with a mystery in 1972 workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania uncover a skeleton […]
Sally Hepworth, widely known for her sharp domestic dramas, takes a playful detour into short fiction with The Ex-Wives Club. Part of Amazon’s Alibis collection, this 80-something page mystery balances humor, family drama, and suspense, proving that even in a compact format […]
Sally Rooney’s third novel arrives with a reputation for capturing the push and pull of millennial intimacy. Beautiful World, Where Are You follows four people circling love and meaning while the larger world feels like it is fraying. It is a talky, […]
Steve Cavanagh, best known for his razor-sharp Eddie Flynn legal thrillers, takes a bold detour with Kill for Me, Kill for You. This standalone novel blends Hitchcock-inspired suspense with a chilling exploration of grief, revenge, and moral compromise. It is a thriller […]
Matt Dinniman has done it again. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, the sixth installment in the wildly addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series, raises the stakes, deepens the lore, and delivers a blend of chaos and character growth that makes it one […]
Verdict in a sentence: A razor sharp blend of dark academia, Roman inspired epic, and twist heavy plotting, The Will of the Many delivers the most compulsively readable academy fantasy since The Name of the Wind and the most propulsive class revolt […]
Verdict in a sentence: Tender, raw, and compulsively readable, Outlier delivers a heartfelt neurodivergent romance that shines brightest in its compassion, even if the third act conflict and pacing will divide readers. What the story is about Vicky has always been an […]
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun arrives with towering expectations. Coming from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, many readers anticipated another masterclass in subtle storytelling, a haunting exploration of humanity, and an […]