Category: Book Reviews

  • Book Review: The Farm by Joanne Ramos

    Book Review: The Farm by Joanne Ramos

    When struggling single mother Jane Reyes is selected to become a Host at Golden Oaks Farm, she’s ecstatic. For the next nine months, she’ll be living in a luxury retreat for the one percent—or, well, for the women carrying the children of the one percent—where the staff will trip over themselves catering to her every…

  • Book Review: America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

    Book Review: America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

    A sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. [Pub. Penguin Books. 432 pp.] In a time of fake news, literature is one of the best ways to combat ignorance and apathy. If you’re lucky, Dekada ‘70…

  • Book Review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

    Book Review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

    Nora Stephens has always had everything under control. As a successful literary agent, Nora is known in New York publishing circles for her keen eye, strong relationships with her clients, and her most recent success: the world’s latest bestselling novel Once in a Lifetime, written by her client, author Dusty Fielding. But Nora’s personal life…

  • Reading Recap: January to March 2022 Reads

    Reading Recap: January to March 2022 Reads

    We’re eight months into the year and, honestly, I haven’t counted the number of books I’ve read so far! Mostly because I’m not too fussed about it; I’m a serial book repeater, after all, and if a book is in my e-reader, I’ll read it whenever I’m in the mood for it. (As Cady Heron…

  • Book Review: Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry

    Book Review: Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry

    Alan Eastman is a trainwreck. It’s 1973, and the biggest years of his writing career are decades behind him, his wife has left him, and nothing seems to be going right. So when he’s invited to cover the tail end of the Vietnam War as a foreign correspondent, he gets the brilliant idea of frightening…