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Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Title)

Iron Flame

So I just finished Iron Flame by Rebecca Yaros today. With the release date and title for the next book in the Empyrean series set, I thought I should go ahead and cross it off my reading list, plus my sister was reading it this week too. Iron Flame is a hefty tome of a …

The Inmate

With The Inmate by Freida McFadden, I’m continuing my recent streak of working my way through some of her very quick thrillers. I’ve been wanting to get my mind off of things, and I thought this might do the trick. In The Inmate, Brooke Sullivan has taken a job at a men’s maximum security prison …

Tom Lake

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett was released in August of 2023, and in addition to being a Reese’s Book Club pick, it also has the distinction of having an audiobook that’s narrated by Meryl Streep. I wasn’t sure at first if it was going to make the cut onto my already lengthy reading list, but …

The Heiress

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins was published in January of this year. I read Hawkin’s mystery-thriller The Wife Upstairs a few years back, so this release caught my eye though I was on the fence about whether the premise interested me. In The Heiress, Camden is the adopted son of a very wealthy heiress who …

The Fury

The Fury by Alex Michaelides came out in January, a standalone book that takes place in the same world as his previous mystery-thrillers, The Silent Patient and The Maidens. There’s brief mentions of the characters from his previous books, but definitely no need to have read either of them to get into this one. The …