Posts from the ‘Recent Release’ category

Review: What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan

I really enjoyed Lucy Tan’s debut novel about a family living in modern-day Shanghai. Wei, Lina and their teenage daughter Karen are a wealthy family living in…

Review: Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

I really liked this book about a CIA agent in 1960’s Argentina. The book checked a lot of boxes for me: historical fiction, set in a…

Review of Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic

This book wasn’t what I expected but I appreciated Stefanovic’s unique perspective. I especially liked that this book gave me a much better understanding of what…

Review of Twenty-One Days by Anne Perry

Anne Perry is my favorite historical mystery writer, because she writes with a lot of detail, creates interesting characters, and her books raise difficult social and…

Review of Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

I enjoyed this book more than I expected to, mainly because the stories are a surprising combination of everyday life, tragedy, and humor. The stories focus…

Review of The Vain Conversation by Anthony Grooms

This was a very intense read, and a thoughtful one. Grooms takes us into the minds of three characters who are involved in a mass lynching…

Review of The Red Word by Sarah Henstra

In the thought-provoking The Red Word, Sarah Henstra explores rape culture on college campuses, particularly in fraternity houses. Narrator Karen Huls arrives at an unnamed Ivy League…

Review of The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg

This book is an often-disturbing look at some classic children’s tales. If you’ve read much children’s literature, you know many of these stories are pretty creepy…