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⭐ 3-Star Reads I’d Still Recommend
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items ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Three stars does NOT mean I hated it! These are the books that didn’t quite hit 4 or 5 stars for me, but I’d still absolutely recommend to the right reader. 📚 So what kept them from getting that extra star? 👀 Browse the list and see which on...
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A gothic thriller set on a remote Irish island? Say less. 🌊🌫️🏝️ I knew I had to pick this one up, and honestly…the stunning cover and the crows 🐦⬛🖤 completely sold me. If there’s a crow on the cover, I’m probably reading it. 😍📚
The atmo...
A Penance for Crows - Morgan, Shannon
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🚐🔎 A cozy mystery + campervans + found family? Count me in! 💙
After discovering her husband with her best friend, Sadie makes a completely impulsive decision—she buys a campervan 🚐 and heads back to the seaside town where she spent part of...
The Campervan Detectives - Bookouture
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This was a fun cozy mystery! 🕵️♀️☕️📚
I loved Miss Savvy and her partner, Penny! 💕 Their friendship was my favorite part, and there were plenty of twists while still keeping that cozy vibe. The ending surprised me and tied everything togethe...
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
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✈️🏝️📖 I went into this expecting a twisty survival mystery, but it ended up being much more of an emotional story about sisterhood, survival, and finding yourself. 💛
The plane crash premise and isolated island setting hooked me right away! ...
The Castaways: Gripping Sunday Times Bestseller
📖 My Sister Is Going to Kill Me
✍️ Nina Simon
⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ (3/5)
🗓️ Pub Date: August 18, 2026
💙 Thank you to NetGalley @netgalley and William Morrow @williammorrowbooks for the ARC!
The title immediately made me want to pick this one up, and a survi...
My Sister Is Going to Kill Me - HarperCollins Publishers
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This one was such a bingeable read! 📖✨ The short chapters, multiple POVs, and fast-paced writing had me flying through the pages. Every time I told myself “just one more chapter,” I somehow ended up reading five. 😂📚
I really enjoyed the mult...
Strangers in the Villa - Harding, Robyn: Books
Sophie Hannah does a pretty good job bringing Poirot back, and for the most part, he actually feels like Poirot. 🕵️♂️✨ But I definitely wanted more of him! He felt almost like a side character in his own mystery at times. And WHERE were the little ...
The Last Death of the Year: New Poirot Mystery
🚀 Okay, I can absolutely see why people LOVE this book… I’m just not quite there with them 😂
The NASA/astronaut setting was easily my favorite part 🌌🛰️ This book was VERY well researched, and you can tell Taylor Jenkins Reid put a ton of work in...
Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story
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“We don’t talk about Carol.”
And honestly… I was locked in from there. 🔍
This was a really good read! It’s definitely a slow-burn mystery, and the beginning took a little while to get going for me. But around the halfway point, things really ...
We Don't Talk About Carol: A Novel
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It’s been a minute since I’ve read a James Patterson book, and this one was… fine. 😂
It was definitely fast paced and kept me reading, but I just never felt fully invested in the story or the characters. There are some pretty serious injustice...
The Murder Trial by James Patterson & Nancy Allen
Thank you to @netgalley and @cosmoreads for the ARC in exchange for my honest review! ❤️
Charlie, a bookstagrammer, lands a gig on the Empress, a luxury yacht full of influencers paid to promote it. She soon learns the girl she replaced, Elena, vanis...
The Last Time We Drowned
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🗓️ Pub Date: August 4, 2026
📜🏰 I really appreciated how much historical detail Tracy Borman packed into this story. You can tell she’s an incredibly knowledgeable historian, and the sixteenth century truly comes alive on the page. 👑✨
That ...
The House of Boleyn: A Novel - Tracy Borman
⭐⭐⭐½ 3.5 stars
Okay, this one turned out to be a CRAZY ride. 😳🔥
Jane Jenkins went to prison at 17 for murdering her socialite mother. Now, ten years later and out on a technicality, she’s determined to figure out what really happened that night—a...
Dear Daughter: A Novel: Little, Elizabeth
Beautiful writing, but a story that felt a little too familiar for me. 📖✨
A Good Animal is a coming-of-age story about Everett, a high school senior whose carefully planned small-town future gets shaken up when Mary arrives. Suddenly there’s love, ...
A Good Animal: A Novel - Maurer, Sara
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This one was a wild ride! 🤭🔪 I can definitely see why Brynne Weaver has so many fans. The premise hooked me right away, and I really liked the banter and chemistry between Nolan and Harper. 🖤
That said, I never felt fully invested in the cha...
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy)
Title: The Pinnacle
Author: Abir Mukherjee
Genre: Thriller / Mystery 🔪
Rating: 3.00 ⭐️
Pub Date: June 16, 2026 📅
📖 S E T U P
When an over-the-hill American actor finds his much younger, Bollywood-star wife dead in their luxury Mumbai high-rise ...
The Pinnacle: A Novel - Mukherjee, Abir: Books
This one completely pulled me in with the setting. 🌲🏕️🔥 The summer camp atmosphere was so vivid that when I wasn’t reading, I was still thinking about Dread’s Cove and picturing myself there. Between the lake, the cabins, the campfire stories, and...
Summer's Never Over : Bozeman, Darby
Title: Wait for Me
Author: Amy Jo Burns
Genre: Historical Fiction / Mystery / Coming-of-Age
Rating: 3.00 ⭐️✨
Pub Date: 2026
📖 S E T • U P
In 1973, rising folk star Elle Harlow takes the stage at the Grand Ole Opry—then vanishes without a trace 🎤
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Wait for Me: A Novel - Kindle Edition
I should have known a Jodi Picoult book was going to get me all up in my feelings. 😭📚
This definitely had that classic Picoult feel—complicated characters, a heavy and thought-provoking topic, plenty of twists, and SO much research. 🧠💭 I appreci...
Hollow Bones: A Novel - Picoult, Jodi: Books
I have SO many conflicting feelings about this book. 😭📖 I finished it, stared into space for a while, and still couldn’t decide exactly how I felt.
The writing is absolutely beautiful. ✨ Hanya Yanagihara has a way of pulling you completely into th...
A Little Life: Yanagihara, Hanya - Books
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This was such a sweet, emotional read 🥹📚💛
The premise completely got me — a newly widowed Tilly receiving a book from her late husband each month for a year, each one gently nudging her life in a new direction 🥺😭 As a book lover, the books...
This Book Made Me Think of You: Page, Libby
The audiobook narration was fantastic 🎧 and the premise is undeniably clever — Andy Weir is clearly a physics genius who can build fascinating sci-fi scenarios. And then there’s Rocky… honestly the best character in the entire book 🥹✨. Once he appe...
Project Hail Mary
Unhinged woman. Unreliable narrator. Zero good decisions. 😂
A 32-year-old sex worker is recruited by undercover government agents for a top-secret assassination. Once the job is done, she realizes exactly why she was chosen—she’s completely disposa...
Murder Bimbo | Book by Rebecca Novack
📖 The Man Made of Smoke
✍️ Alex North
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I’ve come to rely on Alex North for creepy, twisty stories, so I went into this one with high expectations. While I enjoyed the psychological elements and the exploration of childhood trauma, it didn’t q...
The Man Made of Smoke: A Novel
Really mixed feelings on this one. 😬
Riley Sager is one of my favorite thriller authors, and as usual, I FLEW through this. His writing is just so addictive, and the premise had me hooked right away.
But… this definitely wasn’t my favorite of his....
The House Across the Lake: A Novel - Books
It Runs in the Family had an interesting premise — Iris gets a vision of her own murder and has to figure out what exactly is going on. 👀🔪
Unfortunately, this one just didn’t wow me. 😬 The first third felt pretty slow, and honestly, it doesn’t se...
A Small-Town Quirky Family Mystery
Such an interesting premise and pretty good execution! ⏳🔁
Hisataro relives the same day nine times whenever a time loop hits, and he’s gotten pretty used to using those extra chances to tweak little things in his life. But when his grandfather dies...
The Man Who Died Seven Times: 9781805335436
A mysterious library filled with books containing people’s lives and memories?! 📚✨ Yeah, there was no way I wasn’t reading this.
This had so many things I normally LOVE — a magical library, found family, autumn vibes, a little romance, and a whole ...
The Memory of Borrowed Books | Meg Anderson
Did I enjoy reading this? I genuinely don’t know. Could I put it down? Also no. 😂📖
I normally love this author ✍🏻, so I really thought this would be another hit for me. Unfortunately, this one just didn’t quite get there.
I love twists and suspe...
Katherine Faulkner: Books & Biography
The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of my favorite books, so I was SO excited for this one. Unfortunately, it just didn’t hit the way I hoped it would. 😭
The time-travel concept is really interesting, and there were definitely pieces of this that I enj...
Life Out of Order (Standard Edition)
I read the first book in this series and somehow completely skipped the second 😂 but honestly, I don’t feel like I missed too much jumping into book three.
Capri is back giving her San Francisco tours, working on her podcast, and of course finding ...
A Map to Murder: Serial Killer Guide SF
This was not what I expected 😂
I love a good mystery from across the pond, and I was really intrigued by this one being told mostly from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl. I definitely thought there was going to be more true crime/mystery to it...
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey