My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
This was a great short story by Margaret Atwood. I haven't been able to get into some of her stuff like "The Heart Goes Last" but this was wonderful. It's honestly a great short story showing how much a mother did love her daughter, and how much though a daughter did not understand her mother, she … [Read more]
The Secrets We Keep by Kate Hewitt
What an odd book. I have read some of Hewitt's works before and I don't know what I was expecting, but not this. We start off with someone sitting by the bedside of someone who may die. And then we shift to a woman (Tessa) taking her two kids (Ben and Katherine) to the Finger Lakes for the summer. … [Read more]
The Furies by John Connolly
Please note that I received this book for NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Posting some short reviews because I feel like crap also a lot of terrible news has hit and I don't have the bandwidth. This was pitch perfect John Connolly. I felt like the last few books lost the … [Read more]
Fearless at Heart by Zoe York
Initially I wasn't going to request Fearless at Heart because I have too many arcs and I am struggling to get reviews written right now. But then I saw a tweet about the book that said "he eats!" (iykyk). I decided I could fit in one more arc. And let that be a lesson to me about how I get people to … [Read more]
What the Fireflies Knew by Kia Harris
In this coming of age tale, Kenyatta (KB) spends 1995, the summer she turns 11, with her Granddaddy in Lansing. She and her older sister Nia are leaving their home in Detroit for the summer following the death of their father. Their mother brings them to their grandfather's house and then, without … [Read more]
I don't know about you, but I definitely need a diversion at the moment, so let's do as we always do—turn to books. Specifically, the beach read. You know the ones, the rereads or new reads that don't require much effort to pay attention to, the ones that you can pick up and put down as you nap (or … [Read more]
