This December, I had a Plan. I was going to have a ✨themed✨ reading month, based solely on how my ARCs stacked out. Apparently, January and February were all about books about books, and I was there. Unfortunately, best laid plans being what they are and all that, this was not quite the bucolic experience … Continue reading 4 Mini Reviews: Books About Books!
Tag: contemporary fiction
Book Review: Loathe at First Sight
Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Sexism, Racism, Harassment, Doxxing, Discrimination Melody Joo has made a drastic career change, leaping the opportunity to get into the world of video game producing. But she's not prepared for the level of intersectional racism and misogyny leveled at her from all sides—from her famous … Continue reading Book Review: Loathe at First Sight
Book Review: The Switch
The Switch by Beth O'Leary 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Eileen is tired of being alone and 79 after her no-good husband walked out on her after decades of marriage. Leena is burnt out from her job after a particularly horrific anxiety attack during the presentation of the month. Sent on two months of vacation pay to rest her … Continue reading Book Review: The Switch
Book Review: Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Juliet is a baby dyke about to enter her second year of college. Puerto Rican and brown and from the Bronx, she comes out to her parents just before stepping off a plane to begin a summer internship with Harlowe Brisbane, the Pussy Power feminist who is … Continue reading Book Review: Juliet Takes a Breath
Book Review: Sex and Vanity
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan 🌺🌺🌺/5 On her first day on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill (yes, one of those Churchills) sets her eyes on George Zao, and finds an instant attraction. They spend time together during her vacation, and ultimately she gives him up, torn between how her WASP family would view her relationship … Continue reading Book Review: Sex and Vanity
Book Review: Beach Read
Beach Read by Emily Henry 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 A romance writer who no longer believes in happily ever afters moves into her deceased father's love shack, and runs into her college nemesis—the super genius of literary fiction. Both suffering from writer's block and on deadline, they agree to swap places: January is going to write the Great American Novel, … Continue reading Book Review: Beach Read
Double Review: If I Never Met You & The Honey-Don’t List
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane 🌺🌺🌺.5/5 When her partner over a decade leaves her, Laurie is left reeling. Not just because they work at the same firm—but because he got his new girlfriend pregnant almost immediately, after telling Laurie he didn't want to have kids with her. Laurie is trying to recover, … Continue reading Double Review: If I Never Met You & The Honey-Don’t List
Book Review: The Flatshare
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse, Prison Tiffy and Leon share a flat. They share a bed. Their flat is peppered with notes. But they have never met. I adored this book. So. So. Much. My heart is so full after reading this, and it's probably going to be one of my top … Continue reading Book Review: The Flatshare
Book Review: Breathe In, Cash Out
Breathe In, Cash Out by Madeleine Henry 🌺🌺/5 Allegra Chopp has a plan—push through to Bonus Day, then quit her frantic job at the investment banking firm Anderson Shaw, get her 200 hour yoga teaching cert, and live her dream life as a yoga teacher. All she has to do is survive the next two … Continue reading Book Review: Breathe In, Cash Out
The Suspected Bibliophile 