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    • About My Reviews
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    • Contemporary
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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    Book Review: Burying the Honeysuckle Girls | Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters | Emily Carpenter

    / September 7, 2023

    I remembered enjoying Emily Carpenter’s debut novel, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, back when it first came out. When I had the chance to read a follow up, Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters, I immediately…

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  • Book Recommendations,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Recommendation: Homicide and Halo-Halo | Mia P Manansala | Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #2

    / August 21, 2023

    This is part two of my coverage of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries, which I am re-reading In anticipation of the upcoming fourth book by Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon. I read…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Thriller

    Book Review: All Her Little Secrets | Wanda M. Morris

    / March 27, 2022

    Have you ever reinvented yourself? I suspect more of us have than you realize, even if only slightly. Maybe you grew up feeling not good enough—not rich enough, not cool enough, not slim…

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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 Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Between the Lies | Michelle Adams

    / March 15, 2019

    Would there be anything more terrifying than waking up and not remembering who you were? When Chloe Daniels regains consciousness after a car accident, she doesn’t recognize her own family, and she isn’t…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Gothic,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Au Pair | Emma Rous

    / January 8, 2019

    Even deeply buried secrets have a way of coming out. It takes only a small thread of information to unravel a tightly woven web of lies. And when we find those threads, it’s…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Fiction

    Book Review: The Rain Watcher | Tatiana De Rosnay

    / October 30, 2018

    Beautifully written and filled with quiet emotion—The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay is the type of book that made me feel an incredible stillness while reading. There is an elegance to the…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Suspense

    Book Review: Go to My Grave | Catriona McPherson

    / October 24, 2018

    There’s nothing more important than family, they say. But I think the suspenseful thriller Go to My Grave will have you questioning that assumption. To say the main family in this book is…

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  • Book Review,  Suspense,  Women's Fiction

    Book Review: You Were Always Mine | Nicole Baart

    / October 17, 2018

    This book by Nicole Baart came highly recommended to me by my friend Holly over at Dressed to Read and I’m so glad I was able to read it! What an emotional roller…

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Romance

    Book Review: How to Bake a New Beginning | Lucy Knott

    / September 6, 2018

    Do you ever take a luxurious bath or visit a beautiful location or indulge in a decadent treat and think, “That was just what I needed to feel rejuvenated. That was good for…

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Mackenzie Harms is the owner and author of all content of the PhDiva book blog

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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