Brace yourself, Florida. There are some fantastic writers coming to the area to promote their books. Most of these events are in the Tampa Bay Area (or what I perceive to be a drivable distance from the Tampa area). This is not an exhaustive list. To find more Florida book events, check out the list of links below. Here’s some of the events I’m most excited to for in the next few months: Andrea Bartz , the thriller icon and writer’s writer, is signing books at The Book Lo

FINALLY there is a book for the people like me: the QUITTERS! I have been basically a professional quitter since I insisted I had to quit vacation bible school camp 1996, and have been hooked on quitting since. In all seriousness, it is SO refreshing to read a book that captures the nuances of deciding to start over and the ups and downs that can entails. The Quitters Club follows four woman in a friend group who are around 40. After meeting for a vacation they make a pact t

CW: eating disorder This is a really fascinating retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray written for a YA audience (though would definitely appeal to adults, especially ones like me who used Dorian Gray for all my AP Lit essays!). Our main character Penny Paxton follows in her famous mother’s footsteps and attends the Dorian Drama School. Penny is dealing with pretty serious disordered eating and body dysmorphia, so when she gets to opportunity to have a masked painted captur

Review of The Undergrads: Student Union by Julie Murphy

Catie is a 17-year-old living in the Heights, an old, enormous, castle of a house in a forest with her mom and older brother. When she gets a neighbor, Hunter, Catie is scared and intrigued, and also intriguing to Hunter. Catie and now Hunter live in a huge, mysterious forest, a setting that is very much a character in the story, along with the house, the Heights. As Catie starts to become friends, and maybe more than friends with Hunter, she also starts having strange vision

Picture Book Review! My First Book of Hunting 100 Words: Vocabulary Words Every Little Hunter Needs to Know by and Andrew and Deanna McCurdie. I love to review children’s books and see what’s new on the scene. I read a gifted copy of this book and was so glad to have the chance. This is a cute, informative book for parents and caregivers to read with their children. I could see it really helping prepare kids to identify what they see, learn terms, let to predict and prepare f

This book proves beyond any doubt that Kliewer is no one hit wonder when it comes to novels. A very fast read and a definitive five stars. This book scared the bejesus out of me. As I’m typing this, I am so tired because I was awake so much of the night reading it. I genuinely had to take pauses because the tension is so heavy and fast that I had to remove myself at times to remind myself this is fiction and not happening to me right now. That’s how engrossing Kliewer’s writi

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In a speculative American future, an app LIV makes it possible to own a human corpse as a companion. While “living with The Dead” becomes a sensation across the country, founder Auden, Auden’s stepsister, Mara, and funder Tom, grapple with their lives and decisions as the reality of the country becomes increasingly morbid and bleak. Through third-person narration, we see LIVs trials unfold— Auden is a strange man with gruesome interests in embalming who is set in changing th

A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage M.K. Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It took me a while to get into this book, I can’t lie. I think perhaps the marketing was misleading, or I read too far into the comparisons to the Molly the Maid books, where the main character is neurodivergent. Unlike that, in this book, the main character Lalla Rock is a straight up sociopath—which is in the title of the book, so again, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. Once I readjusted to what the

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In Time With You by Kristen Dwyer Wednesday Books YA Man, I loved this book. It made me feel so many feelings the whole time. In Time With You is a cotemprary fiction novel— categorized as YA though the characters are college aged and the concept will likely appeal to many reader— that blends grief, love, and the magic of time travel. Neive , our protagonist and narrator, has just lost her boyfriend Carter in a river drowning both she and Carter’s friend Max were present for.