It’s 1983 and summer has come to an end. In Malibu, that means one thing: the annual Riva end-of-summer party, where wild things are guaranteed to happen every year. But this year, the four Riva siblings have a lot going on. Nina, surfer and supermodel, has just been abandoned by her husband. Jay, championship . . .
Tag: adult fiction
In the House in the Dark of the Woods | book review
In colonial New England, a woman is collecting berries for her son and her man. She ventures into the woods, but winds up getting lost. Or did she run away, abandoning her family? Or was she taken into the woods, now trapped and unable to leave? Try as she might to leave, she always finds herself back in the woods. Back at the house in the dark of the . . .
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | book review
Adeline LaRue is born in 1691 in Villon, France. She was born here, she will live here, and she will die here, buried in a ten by ten plot with the rest of her family, generations before her. She will marry, have children, be the best wife and mother she can be. But Addie doesn't want this life for herself. She wants to see . . .
Malorie (Bird Box, #2) | book review
It's been seventeen years since the creatures arrived. Twelve since Malorie and her children arrived at the The Jane Tucker School for the Blind, and ten years since they were forced to leave it. Malorie's children, Tom and Olympia, are sixteen now, and living under their mother's harsh rules and strict reality has left them wanting more than just to . . .
Codename Villanelle | book review
Oxana was going to die for the murders she committed, avenging her father. But a powerful organization known as the 12 spares her life, only to recruit her as one of their skilled assassins. Now called Villanelle, she hunts and kills the world's richest and most powerful. Eve works for MI5, until an influential politician is murdered on her watch. Now she's been recruited, on . . .
The Magician’s Land | book review
Quentin Coldwater finds himself back at Brakebills, back where it all began. This time, however, as a professor. He's thirty years old and has been cast out of Fillory, the only place he truly felt he belonged. But it's time let all of that go, start over, start his new life back on Earth. But it seems he can't put that all behind him, not yet. Something's wrong in . . .
Artemis | book review
Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara lives on the moon colony called Artemis. She's lived there practically her entire life with her welder father. At twenty-six years old, she lives in poverty and makes her money smuggling things from Earth to the wealthier residents of Artemis. One of those residents, a billionaire with a new scheme up his sleeve, recruits Jazz for an illegal . . .
In Five Years | book review
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” That's the question being asked of Dannie, who has rehearsed her answer a million times. She knows exactly what her life will look like in five years. It’s all part of the plan. Her plan. Until one night, she falls asleep in the arms of her fiancé, and wakes up…in someone else’s bed? The TV is reporting . . .
Hidden Bodies | book review
Joe Goldberg is alone again, and desperate to find true love. He messed up with Beck. He chose wrong. He knows that now. There's nothing left for him in New York, and after yet another betrayal Joe finds himself in Los Angeles, the city of second chances. In LA, Joe is determined to put his past behind him. But even as he finds . . .
You | book review
When a beautiful woman wanders into the bookstore where Joe works, he is immediately obsessed with her. He must know her name. He Googles the name on her credit card, and he's in luck: only 1 Guinevere Beck shows up in NYC. Even better, Beck (as her friends call her) has a public Facebook page and a ridiculously active Twitter . . .