The Plus One List
I interviewed Amy Ewing a couple of years ago for my blog and YouTube — she is exactly who you hope an author will be when you love their work. The Plus One List is five stars.
Welcome to The Herbwood Kitchen
Welcome to the Herbwood Kitchen! I grew up on a produce farm, and now I’m sharing the recipes and preserving practices that keep our family cooking at home, even with a new baby and a busy schedule. To kick things off, here’s a glimpse at the crockpot comfort food, football Sunday snacks, and fall baking that make this my favorite season in the kitchen.
The Legacy
Where are they now? The Legacy checks back in on all four Off-Campus couples years post-graduation, and it’s the tie-up this series earned.
The Mistake
John Logan broke Grace Ivers’s trust once. The Mistake spends a full senior year watching him try to earn it back, and it’s every bit as swoony and messy as a good sports romance should be.
Fall is My Love Language: A Running List of Obsessions
It is somehow September, and I am excited. This is my messy catch-all for everything I'm currently obsessed with, planning for, and counting down to — soups, teas, candles, fall reads, and how I will spend my autumn.
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)
A Discovery of Witches is the kind of book that creates a whole world and then makes you ache to live in it. Deborah Harkness weaves scholarship, magic, and slow-burn romance into something genuinely unlike anything else in the paranormal genre. Recommended for readers who love literary fantasy with depth.
Maybe in Another Life
Maybe in Another Life is Taylor Jenkins Reid playing with structure in interesting ways — but the novel's formal cleverness outpaces its emotional depth, which isn't typical for her.
The God of the Woods
The God of the Woods is the kind of mystery that earns the "literary" label honestly — layered, ambitious, and more interested in what disappearance reveals about the living than in easy resolution.
These Summer Storms
Sarah MacLean brings her signature sharpness to contemporary fiction and it suits her perfectly — These Summer Storms is a glittering, thorny family drama I couldn't put down.
It's Not Her
Mary Kubica at her most propulsive; It's Not Her is a tightly wound thriller that doesn't let you go, building to a reveal that recontextualizes everything you thought you knew.
You Know Why
J.T. Ellison delivers another suspenseful thriller in You Know Why, a novel filled with secrets, betrayals, and unexpected twists that keep the story moving at a steady pace. As Brooklyn Locke searches for answers following her husband's disappearance, long-buried secrets begin to surface, leading to a mystery that kept me turning pages to see how all the pieces would fit together.
In Your Dreams
In Your Dreams is exactly the kind of comfort romance the When in Rome series has always done well — warm, small-town, and genuinely sweet, even if it doesn't push beyond that.
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
Two Twisted Crowns deepens the gothic world of The Shepherd King duology — but the Nightmare's grip on Elspeth is both the book's greatest strength and its source of tension in ways not all readers will find satisfying.
City of Iron and Ivy
A promising romantasy debut with a genuinely original premise — botanical magic, dark academia, and a murder investigation wrapped in Bridgerton aesthetics. The ambition is real, even if the execution isn't quite there yet.
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
One Dark Window is the gothic fantasy I didn't know I needed — moody, original, and anchored by one of the most unsettling character dynamics I've read in years.
Manifesting a Rhode Island Hydrangea Summer: 6 Books for the Vibe
Six books that feel like a coastal New England summer, hydrangeas and family secrets included.
Birds of a Feather: The Secrets of a Knight (The Ravenhood Legacy #3)
Kate Stewart closes out the Ravenhood Legacy with everything the series promised — big emotions, complex characters, and a romance that earns every complicated beat.
Our Perfect Storm
Carley Fortune has a gift for quiet devastation wrapped in gorgeous settings — Our Perfect Storm is the kind of romance that sneaks up on you, emotionally, like weather rolling in off the water.
