Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour – AudioBook Blurb: An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content...
My Name is Anton by Catherine Ryan Hyde
My Name is Anton by Catherine Ryan Hyde ARC provided from Lake Union for an honest review.Book Blurb: It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still...
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller – 352 pages Book Blurb: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes...
Half Life by Jillian Cantor
Half Life by Jillian Cantor - 416 pages ARC from Harper Perennial and the author for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton – 368 pages ARC from 37ink and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of...
2021 Spring Picks!
Enjoy this alphabetical list of 2021 Spring Picks. All are available for purchase by clicking on my Amazon Storefront. Links are attached for reviews. A Million Reasons Why - Jessica Strawier All the Children Are Home by Party Francis Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q....
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides –320 pages ARC from Celadon Books for an honest review.Book Blurb: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is...
The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey
The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey – 456 pages ARC from Get Red PR for an honest reviewBook Blurb: Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of...
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens – 352 pages Book Blurb: Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same...
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson – 336 pages Book Blurb: It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to...

