Review: Reckless Girls

Title: Reckless Girls Author: Rachel Hawkins Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary: When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family…

ARC Review: Jade Legacy (spoiler free!)

Title: Jade Legacy Author: Fonda J. Lee Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern…

Review: The Rose Code

Title: The Rose Code Author: Kate Quinn Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and…

Review: The Guest List

Title: The Guest List Author: Lucy Foley Rating: 4/5 stars Summary: On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or…

ARC Review: She Who Became The Sun

Title: She Who Became The Sun Author: Shelley Parker-Chan Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summary: In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only…

Review: The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

Title: The Unbroken Author: C.L. Clark Rating: 4/5 stars Summary: Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood…

ARC Review: The Echo Wife

Title: The Echo Wife Author: Sarah Gailey Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband. Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and the Caldwell wives have…

Review: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Title: When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain Author: Nghi Vo Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger…

Review: Dawnshard

Title: Dawnshard Author: Brandon Sanderson Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so…

ARC review: Dark Tides

Title: Dark Tides Author: Philippa Gregory Rating: 2/5 stars Summary: Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of…