"We can never again be who we were . . . It's impossible. We've already missed each other."I left Shanghai when I was nine. By the time I was able to make it back for a visit almost a decade later, the city of...
Review - 'Julie Chan Is Dead' by Liann Zhang
I know that Chloe normally looks more put together, but compared to a corpse, I must look okay, right?Huh, I don't quite know how to feel about this. Suffice to say, this is one of the more unhinged books I've read in quite some...
Review - 'The Kiss Quotient' by Helen Hoang
Here I was, thinking I'm getting too old and cynical to enjoy a romance. And The Kiss Quotient comes along and totally blows me away.In recent years, I've started to give up on romances. I pick up so many, yet only a few have...
Review - 'Dissolution' by Nicholas Binge
What the heck was this? I think I'm going to need a few more rereads to wrap my head around it all.When it comes to speculative fiction, you just never know what you're going to get. Sometimes there's a great premise, but no follow-through....
Review - 'Any Trope but You' by Victoria Lavine
On the one hand, I did have some fun with this one. But on the other hand, shouldn't these characters be in therapy instead of a romcom?Let me preface this by saying that my opinion here is decidedly in the minority. I see so...
Review - 'The Tainted Cup' by Robert Jackson Bennett
Well hello there, my new favorite series! Delighted to make your acquaintance!But first, before we go on, a little confession. I'd like to think of myself as an equal opportunity book lover. Much as a parent would find it hard to name a favorite...
Review - 'The Housemaid' by Freida McFadden
My first Freida McFadden! And while I wasn't as enamored with The Housemaid as most readers were, I did find it decently entertaining.To start, I can totally see why people talk about this book as being bingeworthy. It has all the hallmarks of a...
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