Arrivals & Departures ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ by Amanda Eyre Ward Literary Fiction • June 2026 • ARC • NetGalley Quick Take The Perkins family from The Jetsetters is back just ten years later and still just as messy. Read This If… My Thoughts What do you do when your sister moved to Greece, but can’t be found?…

The Break-Up Retreat ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ by Camilla Sten Thriller • June 2026 • ARC • NetGalley Quick Take A creepy, fast-paced psychological thriller with an unsettling retreat setting and horror-movie vibes. Just don’t expect the main character to make smart decisions. Read This If… Skip This If… My Thoughts I’ve wanted to read Camilla Sten for…

Homeschooled ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Stefan Merrill Block Memoir • February 2026 • Audio Quick Take A memoir about a mother’s love becoming isolation, and a son’s attempt to reclaim the childhood he never had. Read This If… Skip This If… My Thoughts He was her whole world. He wanted to be in the world.That is this…

Love Overboard ⭐⭐⭐✨ by Kandi Steiner Romance • April 2026 • ARC • Netgalley Quick Take Love Overboard is basically Below Deck with a second-chance romance running through the middle of it. The superyacht setting, reality-show cameras, and crew drama do most of the heavy lifting. Readers new to the franchise will probably have more…

I need to start with the audiobook because that is where this conversation begins. I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I know the difference between a good narrator and a production that actually does something with the format. This one is produced like a podcast. Not narrated like a podcast. Produced like one. Sound…

Pub day is April 7th. You have five days to preorder this. A trad wife mommy blogger wakes up in the 1800s. That’s the whole pitch. Caro Claire Burke does not need more than that to hook you. Yesteryear runs on a dual timeline: Natalie’s curated influencer life in the present and the life she…

I went into this expecting to feel for the soldiers. I came out feeling for the women. That shift happened early and it never reversed. The Wives is Simone Gorrindo’s memoir about following her husband to Fort Benning, Georgia after he enlisted in the Army. She was older than most of the wives around her,…

Here’s the thing about Project Hail Mary: I already knew what was going to happen, and it still wouldn’t let me go. This was a re-read for me, this time on audio. The premise is exactly as wild as it sounds. You wake up alone in space with no memory. The fate of Earth is…

I went into First-Time Caller expecting a cute romance with a fun premise. What I got was that, plus a whole city that felt like a character in its own right. The setup delivers exactly what it promises: a romance hotline, a jaded host who clearly has opinions about love that he hasn’t examined too…

Look, the premise of The Astral Library had me fully on board before I even cracked the spine. A magical library you can retreat to when life gets to be too much? A bookworm protagonist who finds refuge in the stacks when everything else falls apart? Kate Quinn dangling the question of whether a reader…

The Pie & Mash Detective Agency ⭐⭐⭐ by JD Brinkworth Mystery • March 2026 • ARC • Bookbrowse Quick Take A cozy mystery with an appealingly odd premise that gets buried beneath too many characters, subplots, and detours. Read This If… Skip This If… My Thoughts The Pie & Mash Detective Agency promises an oddball…

There are books that entertain you and books that make you sit with yourself a little uncomfortably after you finish them. Strangers is the second kind, and honestly, the second kind is always more interesting. Belle Burden’s memoir about the collapse of her marriage is one of those reads that swallows you whole in a…

My Husband’s Wife ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ by Alice Feeney Thriller • January 2026 • Hardback • Book of the Month Quick Take Alice Feeney throws every thriller trick she has at the page. Some of them land brilliantly. Some of them leave you wondering if the book is messing with you just for sport. Read This If……

There’s something about a British Columbia mountain town where the air is crisp, the lakes are crystal clear, and love shows up in the messiest, most unexpected ways. Elsie Silver’s Rose Hill series delivers small-town charm with serious heat, following an interconnected group of people who discover that family isn’t always blood and love doesn’t…

There’s something about a Wyoming ranch where family ties run deep, cowboys carry their baggage quietly, and love shows up when you least expect it. Lyla Sage’s Rebel Blue Ranch series delivers small-town charm with a side of emotional baggage, following the Ryder siblings (and one honorary family member) as they navigate heartbreak, healing, and…