Category: Book Reviews


  • Son of Nobody by Yann Martel: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new…

  • You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new…

  • Reboot by Justin Taylor: REVIEW   Goodreads Blurb David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by Grace, his ex-wife and former…

  • Dead in the Water by John Marrs: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear—except one. A dead boy. A face he can’t place. A moment he doesn’t remember living. At first he tells himself it’s a trick of the mind. But everything else…

  • The Award by Matthew Pearl: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above Silas Hale, a famous author who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster. Silas refuses to…

  • Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda: REVIEW Synopsis Japanese cultural historian Hiroko Yoda explains the Japanese mindset to Westerners by sharing her own journey with Japanese ritual and spirituality after the deaths of her parents. My Review As the author points out, the Western world often has a hard time understanding Japanese culture.…

  • Blogmas Day 12: Natalie MacMaster Hello! Welcome to Blogmas Day 12! I actually can’t believe I’ve kept up this daily blogging this long. 😅 But it’s fun, so let’s continue! Advent Calendar Today’s jigsaw puzzle would complete the second row of the amalgamated puzzle if I were doing it that way. No surprises or great…