Netgalley adding audiobooks has been a gamechanger for me in terms of reading ARCs. So I thought I would start posting release day reviews of ARCs I have read in an attempt to bring them some attention! This Vicious GraceThe Last Finestra #1Emily ThiedeYoung Adult, Fantasy, RomanceJune 28th, 2022448 pages Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa’s [...]
Every Summer AfterCarley FortuneRomance320 pages Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.A magazine writer has to make a choice when she returns to the lake she grew up on, and to the man she thought she'd never have to live without, in this achingly nostalgic [...]
Book LoversEmily HenryContemporary, Romance384 pages One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....Nora Stephens' life is books - she’s read them all - and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is [...]
Yerba BuenaNina LaCourContemporary, Fiction, Romance, AdultFlatiron BooksMay 31st, 2022304 When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for [...]
Firekeeper's DaughterAngeline BoulleyYoung Adult FictionHenry Holt and Company (BYR)March 16, 2021496 As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she [...]
I am one of those people who puts a lot of pressure on the first book I read in a year, so I asked for your help in choosing what should be my first read of 2022. A Certain Appeal and Firekeeper's Daughter received the majority of the votes, so I started with A Certain [...]
They Never LearnLayne FargoThriller, Mystery, ContemporaryGallery/Scout PressOctober 13th, 2020378 Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for [...]
The Death of Jane LawrenceCaitlin StarlingHorror, Gothic, Historical FictionSt. Martin's PressOctober 5th, 2021Audiobook368Netgalley Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing [...]
Hold Back the TideMelinda SalisburyHorror, Fantasy, Young AdultScholasticMarch 5, 2020300 Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enough proof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's been forced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best to survive until [...]
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's DaughterThe Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #1Theodora GossMystery, Historical Fiction, Retelling, Young AdultSimon and SchusterJune 20, 2017402 pages Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend [...]
