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Rachel Hawkins | THE STORM Spoilers
Book Review, Rachel Hawkins, Reviews with Spoilers January 20, 2026

Rachel Hawkins | THE STORM Spoilers

Katherine Wood | SUNBURNED Spoilers
Book Review, Katherine St. John, Katherine Wood, Reviews with Spoilers September 3, 2025

Katherine Wood | SUNBURNED Spoilers

Victoria Helen Stone | BALD-FACED LIAR Spoilers
Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Victoria Helen Stone June 17, 2025

Victoria Helen Stone | BALD-FACED LIAR Spoilers

Liv Constantine | DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES Spoilers
Book Review, Liv Constantine, Reviews with Spoilers May 27, 2025

Liv Constantine | DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES Spoilers

Ruth Ware | THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Spoilers
Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Ruth Ware April 27, 2025

Ruth Ware | THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Spoilers

Megan Collins | CROSS MY HEART Spoilers
Book Review, Megan Collins, Reviews with Spoilers February 21, 2025

Megan Collins | CROSS MY HEART Spoilers

Finley Turner | THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY Spoilers
Book Review, Finley Turner, Reviews with Spoilers January 14, 2025

Finley Turner | THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY Spoilers

Leah Konen | THE LAST ROOM ON THE LEFT Spoilers
Book Review, Leah Konen, Reviews with Spoilers January 7, 2025

Leah Konen | THE LAST ROOM ON THE LEFT Spoilers

Alafair Burke | THE NOTE Spoilers
Alafair Burke, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers January 6, 2025

Alafair Burke | THE NOTE Spoilers

Audrey J Cole | MISSING IN FLIGHT Spoilers
Audrey J Cole, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers December 27, 2024

Audrey J Cole | MISSING IN FLIGHT Spoilers

Categories Book Review, Ethan Joella

Ethan Joella | A Little Hope

The Book:  A Little Hope by Ethan JoellaPublished November 16, 2021 by ScribnerDate read: September 11, 2022 The Characters:  Freddie and Greg Rating Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): Freddie and Greg Tyler seem to have it all: a comfortable home, a beautiful young daughter, a bond that feels unbreakable. But…

by CarolineOctober 5, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Casey Dembowski

Casey Dembowski | The Corey Effect

The Book:  The Corey Effect by Casey DembowskiPublished October 4th 2022 by Red Adept PublishingDate read: October 3, 2022 The Characters:  AndiCorey Buy it on…

October 4, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Karin Slaughter, Reviews with Spoilers

Karin Slaughter | Kisscut (Grant County #2)

The Plot (from Goodreads): Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long…

October 4, 2022August 30, 2023
Categories Book Lists, New Releases

January 2023 New Releases

Is it too early to start talking about 2023 releases? The winter gets kind of quiet on new releases, so it’s the perfect time for…

September 23, 2022January 13, 2023
Categories Ashley Flowers, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Ashley Flowers | All Good People Here

The Plot (from Goodreads): Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the case of January Jacobs, who was found dead in a ditch hours after her family…

September 23, 2022November 17, 2022
Categories Book Review, Lisa Scottoline, Reviews with Spoilers

Lisa Scottoline | One Perfect Lie

The Book:  One Perfect Lie by Lisa ScottolinePublished: 2017 by St. Martin’s Press Torrie’s Rating: ★★ The Plot (Goodreads): A handsome stranger moves to the small…

September 22, 2022October 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Karin Slaughter, Reviews with Spoilers

Karin Slaughter | Blindsighted (Grant County #1)

The Plot (from Goodreads): A small Georgia town erupts in panic when Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, is found brutally mutilated in the local…

September 19, 2022August 30, 2023
Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | Almost Missed You

The Book:  Almost Missed You by Jessica StrawserPublished: March 2017 by St. Martin’s Press Almost Missed You is actually how I found “How Did That…

September 17, 2022October 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Georgia Clark

Georgia Clark | Island Time

The Plot (from Goodreads): The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the…

September 15, 2022September 8, 2023
Categories Book Review, Megan Goldin, Reviews with Spoilers

Megan Goldin | Stay Awake

The Plot (from Goodreads): Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there….

September 12, 2022September 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Katie Runde

Katie Runde | The Shore

The Plot (from Goodreads): Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy….

September 11, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Mazey Eddings

Mazey Eddings | Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake

The Plot (from Goodreads): Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety), you name it, she’s done…

September 10, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Lisa Gardner, Reviews with Spoilers

Lisa Gardner | The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren #3)

The Book:  The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren #3) by Lisa GardnerPublished: June 4, 2009 by Bantam Books Torrie’s Rating: ★★★★ The Plot (Goodreads): From a master…

September 10, 2022November 6, 2022
Categories Book Review, Elaine Murphy, Reviews with Spoilers

Elaine Murphy | Look What You Made Me Do (#1)

The Plot (from Goodreads): Carrie wants a normal life. Carrie Lawrence doesn’t need a happily ever after. She’ll just settle for “after.” After a decade…

September 9, 2022February 17, 2023
Categories Book Review, Megan Collins, Reviews with Spoilers

Megan Collins | The Family Plot

The Plot (from Goodreads): At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island…

September 8, 2022September 16, 2023
Categories Book Review, Darcey Bell, Reviews with Spoilers

Darcey Bell | All I Want

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Emma’s husband, Ben, falls in love with a large Victorian mansion for sale in upstate New York, he swears to…

September 7, 2022September 15, 2022
Categories Angie Hockman, Book Review

Angie Hockman | Dream On

The Plot (from Goodreads): When law student Cass Walker wakes up after surviving a car accident, she is flooded with memories of her boyfriend, Devin….

September 7, 2022May 23, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sonya Lalli

SC Lalli | Are You Sara?

The Plot (from Goodreads): Two women named Sara each get into a rideshare. . . but only one makes it home alive. Which Sara was…

September 6, 2022May 21, 2024
Categories Book Review, Rachel Burton

Rachel Burton | A Bookshop Christmas

The Plot (from Goodreads): A snowstorm. A stranger. A spark. And it’s Christmas! It should be the perfect start to the perfect love story. But…

September 6, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Melanie Gideon, Reviews with Spoilers

Melanie Gideon | Did I Say You Could Go

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Ruth, a wealthy divorcé​e, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten meet-and-greet, she hopes this will be a fresh start…

September 5, 2022September 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Peter Swanson, Reviews with Spoilers

Peter Swanson | The Kind Worth Killing

The Plot (from Goodreads): On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many…

September 5, 2022March 22, 2024
Categories Book Review, Lisa Gardner, Reviews with Spoilers

Lisa Gardner | Hide (Detective D.D. Warren #2)

The Book:  Hide (Detective D.D. Warren #2) by Lisa GardnerPublished: January 30, 2007 by Bantam Books Torrie’s Rating: ★★★★ The Plot (Goodreads): You have good reason…

September 5, 2022October 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Timothy Janovsky

Timothy Janovsky | You’re A Mean One, Matthew Prince

The Plot (from Goodreads): Bring a little joy to the world? Not today, Santa. Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if…

September 4, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Review, Farrah Rochon

Farrah Rochon | The Hookup Plan (The Boyfriend Project #3)

The Plot (from Goodreads): Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just needs to find some balance and de-stress. According to her friends Samiah and Taylor, what…

September 3, 2022August 23, 2023
Categories Book Review, Dervla McTiernan, Reviews with Spoilers

Dervla McTiernan | The Murder Rule

The Plot (from Goodreads): First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a…

September 2, 2022September 4, 2022
Categories Amanda Elliot, Book Review

Amanda Elliot | Sadie On A Plate

The Plot (from Goodreads): Sadie is a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene. Her dream is to create unique, modern, and mouthwatering takes…

September 1, 2022August 29, 2024
Categories Book Lists

Wrap Up | August 2022

This month, I participated in an ARC August competition on Instagram. The goal was to knock as many books as I could off of my…

September 1, 2022January 12, 2023
Categories Book Review, Jennifer Hillier, Reviews with Spoilers

Jennifer Hillier | Things We Do In The Dark

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the…

August 31, 2022May 2, 2024
Categories Amanda Jayatissa, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Amanda Jayatissa | You’re Invited

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Amaya is invited to Kaavi’s over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, she is surprised and a little hurt to hear from…

August 31, 2022May 21, 2024
Categories Book Review, Tracy Goodwin

Tracy Goodwin | With Neighbors Like This

The Plot (from Goodreads): A single mom fighting for what’s right to make a new home for her kids Enemies-to-lovers romance by way of the…

August 25, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Allie Reynolds, Reviews with Spoilers

Allie Reynolds | The Swell

The Book:  The Swell by Allie ReynoldsPublished July 19th 2022 by G.P. Putnam’s SonsDate read: July 9, 2022 The Characters:  MikkiKenna Buy it on Bookshop.org…

August 25, 2022September 22, 2022
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton | The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

The Plot (from Goodreads): Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle….

August 18, 2022November 29, 2022
Categories Book Review, Denise Williams

Denise Williams | The Love Connection

The Plot (from Goodreads): Ollie Wright loves the thrill of taking chances, like opening a pet grooming salon in an airport where every day is…

August 17, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Gillian McAllister, Reviews with Spoilers

Gillian McAllister | Wrong Place Wrong Time

The Plot (from Goodreads): Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s…

August 16, 2022August 27, 2024
Categories Book Review, Kiersten Modglin, Reviews with Spoilers

Kiersten Modglin | The Atonement

Don’t remember what happened in the first book? Click here for spoilers for The Arrangement.  The Plot (from Goodreads): First, there was THE ARRANGEMENT—a scandalous…

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Juliet Giglio

Juliet Giglio | The Summer of Christmas

The Plot (from Goodreads): Experience a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Christmas movie in July in this charming romantic comedy by writing duo…

August 13, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sandie Jones

Sandie Jones | The Blame Game

The Plot (from Goodreads): Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly. As a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi has found it hard…

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
Categories Book Review, Julie Tieu

Julie Tieu | Circling Back To You

The Plot (from Goodreads): Cadence Lim has transformed from behind-the-scenes number cruncher to an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. But despite…

August 10, 2022March 13, 2024
Categories Book Review, Karin Slaughter, Reviews with Spoilers

Karin Slaughter | Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver #2)

The Plot (from Goodreads): A small town hides a big secret… Who killed Emily Vaughn? Prom Night. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for…

August 9, 2022August 25, 2023
Categories Book Review, Courtney Kae

Courtney Kae | In The Event of Love

The Plot (from Goodreads): Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes of a Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for…

August 2, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Lists

July 2022 | Monthly Wrap-Up

23 books this month! Here’s the roundup: The Bodyguard 🎧Girl, ForgottenFor You & No One Else 🎧What Jonah Knew 🎧Circling Back To YouThe Summer of…

August 1, 2022January 12, 2023
Categories Book Review, Alexis Hall

Alexis Hall | Husband Material

The Plot (from Goodreads): Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended…

July 31, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Review, Lacie Waldon

Lacie Waldon | From The Jump

The Plot (from Goodreads): A chronic yes-woman finally admits to what—and who—she really wants in this unforgettable and heartfelt romantic comedy, by the author of…

July 29, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Lists, New Releases

August 2022 New Releases

Alright y’all, August is going to be the month I get back on track with Bookstagram, the blog, and reviewing things in a timely manner!…

July 29, 2022August 13, 2022
Categories Book Review, Amanda Eyre Ward, Reviews with Spoilers

Amanda Eyre Ward | The Lifeguards

The Plot (from Goodreads): Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas….

July 28, 2022August 1, 2022
Categories Book Lists, Romance Tropes

Forced-Proximity Romances

July 27, 2022August 23, 2023
Categories Book Review, Jayci Lee

Jayci Lee | Booked On A Feeling

The Plot (from Goodreads): Lizzy “Overachiever” Chung, Esq. has her life mapped out neatly: * Become a lawyer. Check. * Join a prestigious law firm….

July 26, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Jennifer Bardsley

Jennifer Bardsley | The History of Us

The Book:  The History of Us by Jennifer BardsleyPublished July 12th 2022 by MontlakeDate read: July 10, 2022 The Characters:  AndreaDustin Buy it on Bookshop.org…

July 26, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell | The Family Upstairs | Ten Second Spoilers

This is a spoiler post! Do not read on unless you have already read The Family Upstairs or want to be spoiled. Summary: Soon after…

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022
Categories Book Review, Katherine Center

Katherine Center | The Bodyguard

The Book:  The Bodyguard by Katherine CenterPublished July 19th 2022 by St. Martin’s PressDate read: July 2, 2022 The Characters:  HannahJack Buy it on Bookshop.org…

July 21, 2022March 18, 2024

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