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Most Eligible
Isabelle Engel, 2026 3.5 Stars In the beginning, this book was delicious. It was chardonnay with an ice cube, starburst red and pink candies, and freshly laundered Roots sweatpants. For this, I recommend fans of dating shows read Most Eligible and have themselves a pj party watching her try to…
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Western Heat
Caroline Richardson, 2026 This was a solid 4 star cowboy romance that focused intensely on the family saga, the relationship between the brothers, and the real conflicts of learning to run a ranch. I highly recommend this book and anticipate it will become a three-book series because it lays groundwork…
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Love and Other Brain Experiments
Hannah Brohm, 2026 4.5 Stars for Overachieving This is the STEM-iest of STEM novels and I ate it up. It’s a must-read, must-own for any fans of STEM storylines and romance. Hannah Brohm hits the beats of a rom com: fake dating, exes in the workplace, slow burn enemies to…
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Role Model
Rachel Reid, 2021. Five Stars. This is a book about believing sexual assault victims and unpacking identity. This is a book where a professional hockey star on the first page is traded to Ottawa, one of the worst teams in the league, because he was caught on tape calling his…
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Just Add Happiness
Julie Hatcher, 2025 4.25 Stars for Independence and Pasta This book was inspiring and swoony and uplifting, and I highly recommend reading in a book club setting with other women to talk through the themes and reactions, preferably over cake. Julie Hatcher sets up the plot perfectly in the first…
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Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy, 2020 Five Stars, no decay. I’ve read her work in reverse order (third, second, this) and I’ve stepped closer and closer to each one, finding myself almost inside of the work. McConaghy is fascinated with her female heroines going wild, untethering from society and drawing closer to nature…
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Daddy Issues
Kate Goldbeck, 2025 4.5 stars for crashing into him. I cannot give this book enough credit for letting the main character fail and make impulsive choices. I think Kate Goldbeck is the queen of normie romance and there is such a need (I deeply feel) for romances with lost souls…
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Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy, 2021 5 stars of absolute perfection. McConaghy builds increasing tension between the scientist team rewilding wolves, the resistant agricultural Scottish society, Inti’s growing attraction to local sheriff Duncan, and her estrangement and intimacy with her twin sister Aggie. It’s an absolute fire between each of the tension points…
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Alchemy & Ashes
Amy Yorke, 2025 Four stars for fun that covers the bases as a book one. It’s lighter on fantasy but deeper on feelings (the big squishy love ones) because it’s “New Adult” (think older YA) and the seeds are there for bigger moments in magic. What I wanted was more…
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Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, 2025 4.25 Stars for haunted, mesmerizing nature fiction. Before writing this review, I drove in the snow to the library to get one of her earlier books, because I’m just that intrigued by Charlotte McConaghy’s voice and narrative style. This one is a stealthy thriller that gives you…
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