The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel has been high on my shortlist of books to read for some time now. I loved Station Eleven, and The Glass Hotel loops in one of the minor characters from Station Eleven, Leon Prevant. This book is exists in an alternate reality where the Georgia Flu (the …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid came out back in 2017, but I decided not to read it after laboring to get through Daisy Jones & the Six, which I didn’t really love. But since then I’ve continually been recommended it so, so many times. And I’ve been on the lookout …
Prologue The book opens with a news clipping about Hollywood “It” Girl, Evelyn Hugo (born Evelyn Elena Herrera). She’s auctioning off some of her gowns, expected to fetch around $2 million to be donated to the breast cancer foundation. The article discusses her seven husbands and her daughter, Connor Cameron, who passed away last year …
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin came out earlier this month, and it is part courtroom thriller and part mystery (and part podcast! well, sort of). It’s also a suspenseful and tense story, that happens to be perfect for mystery fans looking for an audiobook to listen to. The Night Swim is a courtroom thriller …
Chapters 1 – 6 A police officer comes by to report a death of a 15-year-old girl, Jenny Stills, to her mother. He then escorts her 9-year-old sister, Hannah, to the hospital to treat her wounds. 25 years later, Hannah wants to talk about it. Elsewhere, Rachel Krall, a very popular investigative true crime podcast …
