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Book Reviews · October 24, 2024
Book Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“Red, White & Royal Blue” follows the fake friendship between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the U.S. President’s son, and Prince Henry of England, who happen to be nemeses. A confrontational picture of the two at a wedding makes the tabloid, resulting in Alex and Henry having to reclaim their disastrous narrative by becoming diplomatic friends to save Alex’s mother’s electoral campaign… but they accidentally become lovers instead.
Book Reviews · October 21, 2024
Book Review: Through My Window (Hidalgos #1) by Ariana Godoy
“Through My Window” follows good girl Raquel Álvarez’s crush on her mysterious bad boy neighbour Ares Hildago. This is a steamy, proximity romance about first love and heartbreak.
Book Reviews · October 17, 2024
Book Review: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
“Woman, Eating” follows a 23-year-old vampire starting her art internship and living independently from her mother for the first time.
Book Reviews · October 11, 2024
Book Review: Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
“Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” is a dual-timeline reimagining of Mary Shelley’s life. In the first timeline, we follow Mary and her friends (including the notorious Lord Byon) at Lake Geneva in 1816, during the “year without summer.” In the second timeline, we follow a younger Mary, aged fourteen in 1812, during her visit to the Baxter family in Dundee, Scotland.
Book Reviews · October 9, 2024
Book Review: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
“The Dangers of Smoking in Bed” is a collection of dark, unsettling, and, at times, grotesquely graphic stories set at the heart of Buenos Aires. Ghosts, superstitions, disappearing children, troubled teenagers, and more!
Book Reviews · September 26, 2024
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
“The Winter Vault” is an expansive book of love, displacement, and grief, written in Anne Michaels’s distinctive poetic style. It is a dual-timeline historical novel, following a young grieving couple and their time spent in Canada (during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway) and Egypt (during the building of the Aswam dam.)
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