The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Read as part of CBR15Bingo: relation”ship.” This is a romance novel about two people in a relationship who the reader is supposed to “ship,” I s’pose. Never been a fan of the term, myself. I’m going to give a brief review and say that this book is fine and entertaining if you like romance; moving in spots, cloying in others. And I’m going to spend the rest of the time spoiling the book talking about its take on infertility. So don’t read on if you […]
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
This one starts off with a woman who is experiencing complex grief over the loss of her fiancé two years before being set on the path of healing by a dog jumping through the window of her car. The dog’s name is Tucker, and though he belongs to someone else, his owner isn’t responding to Sloan’s calls and messages. So she decides to keep the dog. Until his owner Jason, who was out of the country, realizes he isn’t where he left him and now […]
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Objectively Part of Your World is probably closer to four stars, but I had a really good time with it so I’m giving it five. This book was so uplifting and charming and cozy and swoony. Firstly, before we get to plot, probably good to know that this takes place in a very, very, very light sff atmosphere, so there will have to be some suspension of disbelief, but honestly that’s not hard to do here (the idea, I think, was to try to create an approximation […]
Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
The only other review I’ve written this year was way back in January, when things maybe didn’t feel altogether shiny and new and possible, but they at least felt shinier than they do right now. At the time, I was recovering from surgery, radiation, and chemo from a touch of cancer, and looking forward to getting to whatever the new normal was going to be. The best laid plans, eh? Unfortunately, the cancer came back just a few months later. Not only did it come […]
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
N or M? by Agatha Christie
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
You’ve probably heard of this one already. Woman takes the regional train to and from work every day and watches for a couple who live on a house backing the tracks. She likes to make up stories about what they’re doing every day. One day she sees the wife kissing a man who’s not her husband. Because her previous marriage ended due to infidelity, the main character goes to confront the wife, whom she does not know, but her alcoholism intervenes and she blacks out […]
