Luster by Raven Leilani
Luster by Raven Leilani β 240 pages ARC from Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Book Blurb: Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiesβsharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a...
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis β 354 pages ARC from Dutton and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life--her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing...
The First Emma by Camille di Maio
The First Emma by Camille di MaioΒ ARC from author for honest review Book Blurb: 1914 - Young bride Emma Koehler dreams of a happy marriage and a simple life with her husband, but her hopes are quickly dashed by Ottoβs obsession with his business. Though they become...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives RevealedΒ by Lori Gottlieb β 415 pagesBook Blurb: One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing...
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
The Last Train to Key West by Channel Cleeton β 320 pages ARC courtesy of Berkley Books and Netgalley for an honest Book Blurb: Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flaglerβs legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day...
Seven by Farzana Doctor
Seven by Farzana Doctor β 416 pages ARC from Dundurn for an honest review Book Blurb: When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, she thinks that she's going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and...
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett β 343 pages Book Blurb: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is...
He Started It by Samantha Downing
He Started It by Samantha Downing β 384 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasonsβwe'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather...
Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir by Meredith O’Brien
Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir by Meredith OβBrien- 266 pages Book Blurb: Book Blurb It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a βmassβ on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith OβBrien to learn what is causing that...
Exile Music by Jennifer Steil
Β Exile Music by Jennifer SteilΒ β 415 pages ARC from Viking and Netgalley for an honest review.Book Blurb: As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother...