Who Did You Tell? by Lesley Kara is a combo: mystery/thriller and grief/recovery guide. The main character, Astrid, has moved home with her (helicopter) mother and is trying not to drink, being sober for over six months. And it’s a struggle: as she puts it, “If I have to come home and sit in this …
Publication Date May 5, 2020 “Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent”? Sign me up! Kimberly McCreight, author of Reconstructing Amelia, has written another one of those books you start reading and CANNOT STOP. I loved it. Harper Collins and NetGalley provided me with a copy of A Good Marriage in return for this honest review, …
The Best of Friends, by Lucinda Berry, explores the dynamics between and among a group of teenage boys (who are best friends) as well as their three mothers (BFFs forEVER) when a terrible tragedy occurs. Written by a trauma psychologist (yikes), the story is told from various perspectives and (TBH) at first I had to …
I’ve been a fan of Chris Bohjalian for many years…I think possibly Midwives was the first one of his that I read. Anyway, he has written a ton of good books, many of which had unique characters, settings, or situations. In addition to Midwives, I especially liked The Sandcastle Girls because I learned so much …
I actually read Holly Seddon’s book Try Not to Breathe on Groundhog Day…highly appropriate, since there was so much about it, both in plot and tone as other things I have read recently (esp. Girl on the Train). There are several interesting characters in the book, especially the two women Alex and Amy, who are …