Book: Lord of the FliesAuthor: William GoldingRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the 52 Book Club Challenge Prompt #16 (Deux Ex Machina). A group of boys is stranded on an empty island after a plane crash. At first, it is all fun and games, and then it is briefly orderly. But before long, all descends into chaosContinue reading “2026 Book #22: Lord of the Flies”
Monthly Archives: February 2026
2026 Book #21: The Fifth Season
Book: The Fifth SeasonAuthor: N.K. JemisinRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Completed this for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge #20 (Title in a serif font). This is the way the world ends. For the last time. Essun comes home to find out that her husband has murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter.
2026 Book #20: Such Sharp Teeth
Book: Such Sharp TeethAuthor: Rachel HarrisonRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #20 (A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree) and the 52 Book Club Challenge Prompt #35 (A character with a secret identity). Rory Morris has moved back to her hometown to help her pregnant twin sister, Scarlett. It’sContinue reading “2026 Book #20: Such Sharp Teeth”
2026 Book #19: The Pearl Sister
Book: The Pearl Sister SisterAuthor: Lucinda RileyRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 CeCe, like all of her sisters, struggles after her adoptive father – Pa Salt – dies. The clues he leaves her take her across the globe to Australia, and to a bloodline that starts with Kitty McBride, the daughter of a Scottish clergyman.
2026 Book #18: The Shadow Sister
Book: The Shadow SisterAuthor: Lucinda RileyRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/4 Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #15 (A book about new beginnings). Star D’Alpièse is struggling. Filled with grief at the death of her father, she suddenly finds herself needing space from her sister CeCe, with whom she’s always been close. When she starts lookingContinue reading “2026 Book #18: The Shadow Sister”
2026 Book #17: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
Book: Zero Stars, Do Not RecommendAuthor: M.J. WassmerRating: Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #4 (A book that starts with the letter Z) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #8 (A three-syllable word in the title). Dan Foster – an underachiever with chronically low self-esteem, is finally taking a vacation withContinue reading “2026 Book #17: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend”
2026 Book #16: Hotel du Lac
Book: Hotel du LacAuthor: Anita BrooknerRating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Stars Read for a book club in January. Edith Hope, a writer of romantic stories, and stubbornly single, has been exiled to the Hotel du Lac for embarrassing herself in front of her friends. We don’t yet know what she has done, but we do know her thoughtsContinue reading “2026 Book #16: Hotel du Lac”
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