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  • About PhDiva
    • About My Reviews
  • Book Spoilers
  • Book Reviews by Author
  • Book Reviews by Genre
    • Contemporary
    • Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Psychological Thriller
    • Romance
    • Suspense
    • Thriller
    • Women’s Fiction

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Romance

    BOOK REVIEW: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang @HHoangWrites @BerkleyPub #thebridetest

    / May 7, 2019

    A fairy tale story with an entirely unique take—Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test is fresh, charming, and steamy!!! Truly, no one brings a new voice to romance quite the way Helen Hoang does.…

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  • Book Review,  Women's Fiction

    BOOK REVIEW: Trophy Life by Lea Geller @lrgeller @amazonpub @suzyapbooktours #blogtour #lakeunionpublishing #trophylife

    / May 5, 2019

    Uniquely authentic, laugh-out-loud, rejuvenating, and with depth and heart that just warms the soul, Lea Geller’s Trophy Life is that rare novel that spans from light to emotional and back within a single…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Stillwater Girls | Minka Kent

    / May 4, 2019

    Two seemingly separate stories intertwine in a shocking way in the latest novel by Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls! In one story, two girls raised in isolation off the grid find themselves forced…

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  • Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Literary Thriller,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: When We Left Cuba | Chanel Cleeton

    / May 2, 2019

    Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, was a powerful historical fiction novel about a woman named Elisa Perez forced to flee Cuba with her family in 1958, and her granddaughter traveling to Cuba…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Gothic,  Suspense

    BOOK REVIEW: The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott @elliott_lexie @berkleypub @corvusbooks #themissingyears #bookreview

    / May 1, 2019

    Steeped in small town folklore and filled with atmospheric suspense, I absolutely loved Lexie Elliott’s second novel, The Missing Years! Revolving around a decades old disappearance and an inherited house that seems to…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: Come and Get Me by August Norman @crookedlanebks #comeandgetme #augustnorman #bookreview

    / April 26, 2019

    A book with a fun, fierce, flawed female lead and a gripping mystery that had me hooked from the first chapter! August Norman’s Come and Get Me is his debut thriller featuring journalist…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Suspense,  Women's Fiction

    BOOK REVIEW: The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth @sallyhepworth @stmartinspress #bookreview #themotherinlaw

    / April 24, 2019

    As gripping as it is haunting, there’s a poetry to the story told in The Mother-in Law that is so captivating and suspenseful, you will think about it for days after reading it.…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Gothic,  Suspense

    BOOK REVIEW: Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly @mserinkelly @minotaurbooks #stonemothers #bookreview #minotaurbooks

    / April 23, 2019

    Poignant and haunting—Erin Kelly’s latest novel Stone Mothers has an elegance to it that is both poetic and dark. I read this book as a buddy read with my friend Berit at Audio…

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  • Over Her Dead Body is a mystery book by Kate White that is part of her Bailey Weggins series, about a journalist who solves murders
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: Over Her Dead Body | Kate White | Bailey Weggins #4

    / April 21, 2019

    Back at it with my Kate White spotlight series, with my review of Over Her Dead Body, the fourth installment in the Bailey Weggins series. To backtrack, I’ve been doing a re-read of…

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  • Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks @mariahfredericks @Minotaurbooks #minotaurbooks #deathofanewamerican #bookreview

    / April 20, 2019

    A socially-conscious, atmospheric, historical mystery exploring issues of ethnicity, class, and gender equality in the backdrop of early 1900s New York City. The novel is set right after news of the Titanic hits…

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Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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