How well do you know your best friend? On paper, Zadie and Emma have storybook lives – best friends and successful doctors living in North Carolina. They have been through it all together – college,…
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
Cue the Stranger Things music. Replace the Upside Down with a creepy teacher, a gruesome murder, and eerie chalk drawings showing up in suspicious places. The Chalk Man refers to a mysterious new teacher in…
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Do you judge a book by its cover? Eleanor Oliphant prefers “Miss Oliphant.” She is socially awkward, quirky, and most would describe her as a social misfit. Her life is rigidly structured and monotonous, which…
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan – HIS AND HER REVIEW
Pino is a son, skier, smuggler, but most importantly, Pino is a survivor. The teenager is denied a normal life when bombs rain down on Milan as Allied forces attempt to reclaim Italy from German…
Good Me Bad Me: A Novel by Ali Land
Serial Killers. They are infamous and closely studied. Shows and documentaries are made about them, novels are written. But what about their kids? What happens to them? The book begins with Milly, a fifteen year…
The Ninth Hour: A Novel by Alice McDermott
Love. Friendship. Sacrifice. This novel is about sisterly love – not biological sisters or sorority sisters, but religious sisters – nuns. More specifically, it is a story of women supporting each other, which I found…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Is a life in the Hollywood spotlight as glamorous as it may seem? Are the versions of our favorite stars in the press “real”? Or is there a different narrative behind closed doors? Evelyn Hugo,…