In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic … More Review: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
I had the pleasure of reading an e-ARC of Nicki Pau-Preto’s Crown of Feathers back in February/March, and was absolutely delighted that it was chosen as Owlcrate’s February book too. Crown of Feathers is an awesome YA read that is the beginning of one-heck of an adventure series, as Preto recently confirmed that the series … More Heart of Flames Cover Reveal | Sequel to Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau-Preto
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who … More Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the … More Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
What if someone could rewrite your entire life? `My son has been erased.’ Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death only to learn that this wasn’t an isolated case. All across the country, people are waking up … More Review: Recursion by Blake Crouch
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