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Read & Reviewed in 2025!

Here's what I am reading in 2025! I love reading cross-genre, but mostly gravitate toward Fantasy and Science Fiction. I'm a mood reader and get most of my reading done in the car or after the kids go to bed. Favorites of the Year (Not Ranked): • A Drop of Corruption by Robert Bennett Jackson • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano • The Favorites by Layne Fargo • The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas • The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson • Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

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  • ☆☆☆☆ - This novella is a modern retelling of "The Crane Wife," a story from Japanese folklore about a crane disguised as a woman, who falls in love with a man and continually provides him feathers to weave silk for the man to sell - and destroys…
    Book, 2023New York : Tordotcom, 2023. — BARNHILL
  • Every Day I Read

    53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

    Bo-reum, Hwang
    Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books by Hwang Bo-Reum ☆☆☆ - (3.5) This was a really lovely reflection on the value of reading and all of the different facets that can intersect to make reading meaningful and often joyful. I think that I…
    eBook, 2025Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025
  • The Sing Sing Files

    One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-year Fight for Justice

    Slepian, Dan,
    ☆☆☆☆ - This gripping, painful nonfiction title felt like the perfect follow-up to "Chain-Gang All-Stars" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, which I read last year and still think about on a weekly basis. Investigative journalist Dan Slepian creates…
    Book, 2024New York : Celadon Books, [2024]. — 364.1523 SLEPI
  • ☆☆☆☆ - This was a really fun little murder mystery set in space where brains are backed up in library books and, well, you'll just have to read it. Detective Dorothy Gentleman wakes up with her consciousness in someone else's body. A body that may…
    Book, 2025New York : Tordotcom, 2025. — SCI FI WAITE DOROT#01
  • ☆☆☆☆☆ - Bill Furlong is a coal merchant and father of five girls, who finds himself leaning into "small things like these" during the holiday season: giving the change he can to those in need or accepting gifts and gratitude instead of payment for…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Grove Press, 2021. — FIC KEE
  • ☆☆☆☆ (4.5) - This emotional story set in a forest town on the brink of revival will hit you straight through the heart. As the members of the Beartown hockey team carry the pressure of success and what it would mean to their hockey club and the town…
    Book, 2017New York : Atria Books, 2017. — FIC BAC
  • ☆☆☆☆ - Conveniently, a day before he is killed, Bob signs a contract to have his head cryogenically frozen. When he wakes up a hundred years later, he finds he has been turned into a computer brain without rights and will become a spaceship with a…
    Book, 2025New York : Saga Press, 2025. — SF/FAN TAYLOR
  • ☆☆☆☆☆ - This memoir reads like you are sitting at the kitchen table with your old friend Ina, drinking your cozy beverage of choice, just taking it all in. I never previously followed Barefoot Contessa or Ina Garten, but I had heard this was an…
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, [2024] — 641.509 GAR
  • ☆☆☆☆☆ - This story follows the seemingly inseparable Padavano sisters as they grow through the ups and downs of life. I originally picked this one up because I heard it described as a "Little Women Retelling," and while I can see that argument, I…
    Book, 2023New York : The Dial Press, [2023] — FIC NAPOLITANO
  • ☆☆☆☆☆ - Neema Kraa, high scholar to the emperor, finds herself in some deep doo-doo in this brilliant start to a new trilogy. After her colleague is murdered, the emperor sends Neema to investigate. To get close to the suspects, she must compete for…
    Book, 2025New York : Orbit, 2025. — FIC HODGSON
  • ☆☆☆☆ - After successfully censoring books in a small town school and library, Lula Dean starts up her own little library of the titles that "made [her] who [she] is today." When the books are swapped out for the banned books (hidden inside the…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024].
  • ☆☆☆☆ - (4.5) (4.5) When Alba Díaz relocates with her fiancé to an area near a remote mine, a demonic possession awakens - and perhaps the only one who can save her is her fiancé's cousin, whom Alba is 100% attracted to. This drew me in immediately.…
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, 2025. — H CAN
  • ☆☆ - (2.5) Set over the course of one night shift, a group discovers an unexplained hole in the graveyard. Before they can dismiss the strangeness and leave, the gravedigger returns, launching a series of events and discoveries through the night…
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024 — FIC RIO
  • ☆☆☆ - (3.5) A group of 20 individuals find themselves on a reality show (think a mixture of Big Brother, Survivor, and Love Island). The 10 men are dropped in the desert to find their way to The Compound. Meanwhile, the 10 women wake up inside The…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — FIC RAWLE
  • ☆☆☆☆ - About a year and a half ago, I finished the Greenbone Saga by Fonda Lee, and I've been chasing that feeling ever since. Conveniently titled, "Red City" is the closest I've gotten. Billed as "The Godfather" meets "The Magicians," Marie Lu's…
    Book, 2025New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — FIC LU NEW#01
  • ☆☆☆ - (3.75 rounded down, because it just didn't quite feel like a 4). The Owens sisters through generations tackle love, wrestle against fate, find themselves, and of course - work through some practical magic in the original inspiration for the…
    Book, 1995New York : Putnam, [1995] — FIC HOF
  • A Billion Years

    My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

    Rinder, Mike,
    ☆☆☆☆ - I've been following news of the cult of Scientology for years and bought Rinder's book when it was first published, but finally picked it up this year after his passing in January. This book is a heartfelt, reflective, and honest telling of…
    Book, 2022New York : Gallery Books, 2022. — 299.936 RIN
  • ☆☆☆☆ - A solid conclusion to the Shepherd King Duology! If you enjoyed book one, this will be a satisfying conclusion for you. Ravyn and crew continue their efforts to unite the deck, meanwhile, a new romance emerges back at Stone...
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Orbit, 2023. — GILLIG SHEPHERD KING 2
  • ☆☆☆ - (3.5) Security officer to the rich, Amy Wheeler, finds herself being set up to take the fall in a string of murders. She ends up calling her father-in-law, Steve, for help unraveling the situation. This ended up feeling much more thriller-y…
    Book, 2024New York : Pamela Dorman Books, [2024] — M FIC OSMAN