Tag: Review
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Startup
What do you get when you mix startup business culture, a sex scandal, and a cast of characters interlocking in waves the audience couldn’t anticipate?
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
I’m a sucker for true crime and podcasts, so when one of my favorite podcasts, Book Riot’s All the Books, recommended this true crime book, I put it near the top of my TBR list. After finally picking it up when I had a bit of a break before going back to school, I was…
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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
How could you not be fascinated by a scientific attempt to de-extinct one of the most famous extinct animals of all time? That’s one of the questions posed by Mezrich in his latest non-fiction masterpiece, Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures.
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Bumped & Thumped
Apparently I’m fascinated by the genre of fertility dystopias, and so when I discovered Bumped and it’s sequel, Thumped, I put them on my TBR list immediately. After finally digging into them, I’m fascinated even more so by this burgeoning genre.
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Final Girls
In the past year, I’ve learned that few books enthrall me as much as thrillers, and Final Girls was billed as just the book for me when I heard about it on a book riot podcast. I put it high on my TBR list and devoured it in less than 24 hours once I finally…
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The Stars in Our Eyes
I’ve got something of an obsession with celebrities and entertainment news, so when I heard about Julie Klam’s book, The Stars in Our Eyes, on a Book Riot New Release podcast, I immediately added it to my TBR list. I finally devoured it this week, and I was not disappointed.
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Alex and Eliza
Hamilton fans, the YA novel of your dreams is here. It’s not the next great American novel, and it takes a lot of liberty with history, but it’s ultimately a compelling read and sweet to the very end.
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Good as Gone
Julie disappeared when she was thirteen years old, and in the eight years since, her mother has pretty much given up hope on finding her, her father has devoted his time to the “Julie Fund” and other efforts to find missing children, and her younger sister, Jane, has started acting out. In the span of…
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Duke of Bannerman Prep
I’m a big fan of The Great Gatsby and F Scott Fitzgerald, so when I heard there was a young adult Great Gatsby retelling coming out in May, I knew I had to have it.
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Behind Her Eyes
If you’re enthralled by books like Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, look no further for your next binge-read. Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes is a perfect blend of suspense and psychological thrill with an ending that will leave you reeling.
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Small Great Things
Best-selling author Jodi Picoult, famous for My Sisters Keeper and Nineteen Minutes among others, is back at it with a book about race, white supremacy, and understanding the shades of gray we all live within.
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Maybe in Another Life
What would you do if your life hung on a decision made in one moment? Would you stay, or would you go? Which life is the life you were meant to live? Those are some of the questions that Taylor Jenkins Reid explores in her novel, Maybe in Another Life, which tackles young adulthood and…
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