The Layover is the perfect companion for your next vacation, especially if it involves a long layover and sharing a flight with your arch-nemesis. This enemies-to-lovers romance is four stars and worth the read.
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January Wrap-Up: Book Reviews and Recommendations
January felt like a marathon. Not the kind of marathon that you're proud of, that you trained for. Rather, the kind of marathon you forgot to train for so your hip hurts by mile 8, and by mile 13 you're in so much pain that you're cursing yourself, your decision to not train, and the fact that you decided to run in the first place. The kind of marathon where you celebrate crossing the finish line only because it means you never have to run again.
November Wrap-Up
Black Buck Darren (Buck) is content working as a Starbucks shift manager. He makes enough money to support his mom and has enough time to spend with his girlfriend. He’s getting by, and he likes his co-workers. So he’s surprised when one morning, he gets the sudden urge to upsell a regular customer and bigshot…
The Other Black Girl: Review
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris is self-described as Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada. Given that, I got my hands on a copy as soon as humanly possible. There’s no way I was missing out on one of the best movies I’ve ever seen clashing with one of my favorite chick…
Modern Lovers: Review
When I started writing book reviews what feels like forever-ago in March, I started off with The Vacationers by Emma Straub (click on the link to read my full review!). The novel ended up being a 4-star read for me. Straub’s writing style is simplistic yet captures unique details that ultimately shape the story she’s…
What Comes After: Review
also dealing with the horrible actions and death of her son, Jonah. She’s a single mother trying to take care of her teenage daughter who’s been through so much, her husband also long gone. Isaac and Lorrie’s friendship was torn apart after the death of their sons. It’s not until the strange arrival of a sixteen year old, pregnant girl that the two adults are able to face each other. Evangeline raises questions for the struggling adults and acts as an unlikely binding force.
Poppy and Alex meet awkwardly at freshman gathering in college ten years ago. She is bright and loud; he’s practical and wears khakis. They don’t speak to each other again until a fateful car ride back to their unexpectedly shared hometown in Ohio. During the long drive back to the small town, they find out they have nothing in common, and, naturally, leave as best friends.
Dannie Kohan can’t believe her life -- the perfect Manhattan lawyer gig and a brand new diamond ring on her finger. The night her boyfriend proposes Dannie can’t think of anything else she could dream of. And then, she falls asleep. She wakes up 5 years later with a different ring and different man. She’s freaked when she wakes up but brushes it off. It’s just a dream, right? Right. Until four and a half years later the man from her dream shows up in her life.
Isa Wilde and her friends from boarding school 15 years earlier are reunited and their lives upended when Kate sends a text: I need you. The women are bonded by the lies they told and the web they spun. They are haunted by a 15 year old lie told around the same time Kate's dad disappeared. As the lies they've told start to surface, so does the truth.
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