book review | Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum ⛱️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Fire Island, New York ⚓️ Wealthy and intensionally unlikable characters summer in an exclusive community on Fire Island where infidelity, social climbing, and backstabbing run wild. Until a dead body is disco

book review | The Radium Girls by Kate Moore 🔋 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: New Jersey & Illinois This is a true non-fiction story about young women who painted luminous watch dials with radium-laced paint in the 1920s. Only to end up suffering horrific illnesses from radium poisoning

book review | Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly🥼 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: USA 🇺🇸 & Poland 🇵🇱 & Germany 🇩🇪 Inspired by the true story of Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite who helped Polish women that survived Ravensbrück, a women’s Nazi concentration camp. This book follo

book review | Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 👙 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Pirriwee Peninsula, Australia 🇦🇺 This book follows the lives of three mothers in a wealthy coastal town whose children all attend the same school. The story starts out with information that a murder has occurre

book review | Bridal Shower Murder by Leslie Meier 💐 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Tinker’s Cove, Maine 🪻 Local reporter and amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone, investigates the murder of a prominent local woman. Hetty Furness is found dead after her daughter’s bridal shower. Lucy navigates pre-weddi

book review | Vera Wong’s Guide To Snooping by Jesse Q. Sutanto 📱 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: San Francisco, CA 🌁 Tea shop owner, Vera Wong, finds herself investigating another murder. Vera meets a distressed young woman named Millie, who is looking for her missing friend. Vera becomes i

book review | Too Late by Colleen Hoover ⏳ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: unnamed college town 🎓 Sloan is trapped in an abusive relationship with drug trafficker Asa Jackson. Staying only because Asa is taking care of her and her brother financially. While trying to find a way out, Sloan finds

book review | The Locked Door by Freida McFadden 🪡 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: San Francisco, CA 🌁 Nora Davis is a successful surgeon. Her life comes to a screeching halt when one of her patients is murdered using the same MO as her serial killer father. Except he’s in jail. Someone must be t

book review | The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand🪻 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Nantucket, Massachusetts ⚓️ Adrienne Dealey takes a summer job at a very popular restaurant on Nantucket, The Blue Bistro. She quickly falls for the owner, Thatcher Smith, despite his strange and complicated rela

book review | Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez 🌊 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Minneapolis & Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota ⛱️ Emma and Justin are both afflicted with the same curse — their exes find their soulmates immediately after breaking up. They agree to a summer fling (aka fake d

book review | First Wife’s Shadow by Adele Parks 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: London 🇬🇧 Emma, a very wealthy CEO, falls for Matthew, a very handsome and charming widower. Even though Emma is a very wealthy woman and Matthew has no money the two of them fall into a whirlwind romance. Whi

book review | Broken Country by Claire Leslie Hall 👨🏼‍🌾 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: rural Dorset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Beth and Frank are happily married. Sort of. As long as the past stays buried. Their lives are upended when Beth’s first love returns to town — her teenage sweetheart and the

book review | All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 🥃 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: occupied France 🇫🇷 This story follows the parallel stories of a blind French girl and a German orphan during World War Two. Marie-Laure lives in Paris with her father. When the Nazis occupy Paris, she

book review | The Funeral Ladies Of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski 🫖 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Wisconsin 🌳 A group of women known as “the funeral ladies” work hard to provide comfort food for mourners. They firmly believe there’s nothing a casserole and pie can’t fix. One of the funer

book review | Go As A River by Shelley Read 🌱 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Iola, Colorado 🌳 Live life like a river — flowing and resilient. This historical coming-of-age story follows seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash. A young woman living on her family’s Colorado peach farm in the 194

book review | The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Freida McFadden 🫢 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: suburban town 🏡 A grieving widow believes she keeps seeing her dead husband everywhere. This story gets more and more ridiculous leading to absurd plot twists. 🤡 I get that this book was suppose

book review | His Double Life by Nicole Trope 💐 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Australia 🇦🇺 Diana knows all about her husband Leo’s affairs. Except this one is different than the rest when it causes one of their children to go missing. Diana receives a mysterious text message informing her s

book review | How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin ☕️ my rating: ⭐️ Setting: Castle Knoll, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Frances spends her whole life trying to prevent a fortuneteller‘s prediction that she will be murdered. Only for it to come true decades later. Now, her great niece Annie mu

book review | Every Last Fear by Alex Finley 🎥 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Nebraska 🌽 & Mexico 🇲🇽 The fate of the Pine family. Matt Pine’s parents and two siblings die in Mexico under suspicious circumstances. The tragedy makes headlines but it isn’t the first time this family has be

book review | Little Monsters by Kara Thomas 📱 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Setting: Broken Falls, New York 🏡 Kacey is the new girl in town. She recently moved to a new city to live with her father and step-mother. Everything seems perfect — everyone in town has been so nice and she has been welcome