I just don’t get the hype. It felt a bit like a smidge of The Blue Lagoon meets a heaping serving of Nell and a cuppa Good Will Hunting. This isn’t one of those situations where I didn’t get the hype and don’t like the book. It’s a good book, a solid story really, and I enjoyed it, but the hype . ...
Fiction / Historical / General
BOOK REVIEW: The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
I discovered The Home for Unwanted Girls through the Book Girls Guide In Case You Missed It Challenge. Everything hit for me from the synopsis and the historical angle. I’m not even a cover person, but the cover was captivating as well. Literally everything hit for me before I started ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert
The drawbacks I had with Child of the River were much less prevalent in The Crooked Path. I think partly as Child was audio book and this was eBook, but also I think this one was less political, and I was somewhat already introduced to some of the non-American names and places prior, so it clicked ...
BOOK REVIEW: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
This book was a The Book Girls' Guide In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Reading Challenge: 2026 Edition for February. You read that right, February. The hoops I jumped through to get this book in my hands (or ears, actually) is a story of itself. I wasn't going to tell it, but since I can't seem to ...
BOOK REVIEW: Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
Huge shout out to the The Book Girls' Guide In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Reading Challenge: 2026 Edition for introducing me to Susan Meissner with A Fall of Marigolds in February and then making me want to read more of her. Because come the March list we have this book and I could not have been ...