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 …
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 …
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt was released back in 2022, but has managed to maintain its popularity even a year and a half after its initial release. The popularity of this book feels somewhat unexpected, considering that many the chapters are narrated by an octopus named Marcellus living in an aquarium. But it’s …