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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: You Will Never Be Me | Jesse Q Sutanto

    / August 24, 2024

    This is a spoiler-free book review of You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q Sutanto. If you are looking to find out how the book ends and what to make of that…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster | Shauna Robinson

    / June 28, 2024

    Family, food, culture, and identity blend in this lovely story about a woman reunites with her estranged family. I absolutely loved Shauna Robinson’s The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster! I laughed, I tcried,…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Romance

    Book Review: Lavash at First Sight | Taleen Voskuni

    / May 2, 2024

    Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, Lavash at First Sight. What is Lavash at First Sight about? Twenty-seven-year-old Nazeli “Ellie” Gregorian…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: One of Us Knows | Alyssa Cole

    / April 17, 2024

    A genre-bending gothic thriller centered around a woman with dissociative identity disorder serving as the caretaker at a gothic estate, when she finds herself trapped on the island with a murderer. Chilling! Over…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Fiction,  Literary Fiction

    Book Review: The Band | Christine Ma-Kellams

    / April 15, 2024

    Christine Ma-Kellams’s whip-smart, darkly funny, and biting debut, The Band, follows a psychologist with a savior complex who offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol on the run. About the Book |…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #3

    / March 24, 2024

    A new mystery featuring the meddlesome aunties is headed to bookstores from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery,  Romance

    Cozy Mystery Review: Dial A for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #1

    / March 23, 2024

    Jesse Q. Sutano kicks off a new cozy mystery series with a group of chaotic aunties and a murder in Dial A for Aunties. What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with…

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  • The photo shows the cover of Are You Sara? A debut psychological thriller by S.C. Lallil. The cover is predominently black with glimpes of a colorful city street.
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Psychological Thriller Review: Are you Sara? | S.C. Lalli

    / March 15, 2024

    A captivating novel exploring whether there really is a difference between who we are and the roles we play. S.C. Lalli is the abbreviated name that popular contemporary fiction and romance author Sonya…

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  • Ill-Fated Fortune is a new cullinary cozy mystery with a dose of magic by Jennifer J Chow
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Ill-Fated Fortune | Jennifer J. Chow | A Magical Fortune Cookie #1

    / February 26, 2024

    The first book in Jennifer J. Chow’s new cozy mystery series—A Magical Fortune Cookie—absolutely charmed me! In Ill-Fated Fortune, a young woman finds her family magic just before a dead body turns up…

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  • The Partner Plot is an adorable second chance romance novel by Kristina Forest that made my heart sing
    Book Review,  Contemporary,  Romance

    Book Review: The Partner Plot | Kristina Forest

    / February 24, 2024

    High school sweethearts get a second chance at romance when they run into each other in Las Vegas and engage in a marriage of convenience in Kristina Forest’s latest contemporary romance novel, The…

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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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