Voice-Driven Reviews + Nerdy Extras
Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell is a gritty, atmospheric mystery with a smart, foul-mouthed fingerprint technician at its center. Gillian French balances the cold case with family relationships, personal stakes, and an investigation that kept me invested.
A fast-paced military sci-fi adventure with laughs and heart, I’m a Destroyer follows a sarcastic AI warship trying to overcome her infamous past and help take down a vile empire.
Bogcore is a bookish trend celebrating eerie bogs, swamps, marshes, folklore, and secrets beneath the surface. Here is why I am intrigued.
Passengers by Alexander Maksik is an intimate, unsettling father-daughter story about love, fear, and a world quietly coming apart.
P.C. Cast reimagines the legendary Celtic queen Boudicca in a sweeping story of rebellion, female strength, faith, leadership, and mythic magic.
A lost Incan tomb, a race through the Andes, family secrets, and a little romance. The Lost Guardian was one heck of an adventure and the blast I didn’t know I needed.
September brought me eight completed books, two five-Nerd favorites, and one surprising discovery: I might be a holiday romance reader after all.
Sarah Estep’s Who Needs Mistletoe? is a funny, steamy holiday romance full of second chances, mistaken crushes, and small-town Christmas charm. Read my five-nerd review.
During World War I, hundreds of librarians brought books and magazines to American troops. Mary Josephine Booth was one of the women who helped make it possible.
A fast-paced, cozy-adjacent mystery with splashes of romance, It Happened One Murder delivers small-town secrets, entertaining banter, and a twisty investigation that kept me guessing.