The Bookshelf
I don't do plot summaries dressed up as reviews. I'll tell you how a book felt, who I'd hand it to, and the bits that annoyed me — because a review where everything is perfect is just an advert.
Latest review
Kara Thomas · YA mystery / thriller · 2018
Five girls from the same cheerleading squad died within a month of each other. Five years on, Monica finds a box of her dead sister's things in her stepdad's desk and starts pulling at a thread the whole town would rather she left alone. It's grief with a mystery wrapped round it, and it's excellent.
Coming soon to this shelf
More on the way — I read faster than I write.
Because being surprised by a hard subject in a book you picked up for fun is genuinely horrible, and a two-line heads-up costs me nothing. They're never spoilers — just a note on what's inside, so you can decide if today's the day.
If a book handles something badly, I'll say that too.