Category: Reviews
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Gilda, a 20-something, atheist, lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Gilda stumbles into an interview for a receptionist job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
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Falling

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are 143 other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that 30 minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
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We Are the Brennans

Explores the staying power of shame―and the redemptive power of love―in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.
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A Very Punchable Face

From growing up in a family of firefighters on Staten Island to commuting three hours a day to high school, to attending Harvard while Facebook was created, to hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, Jost shares how he has navigated the world like a slightly smarter Forrest Gump.
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Seven Days in June

Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award‑winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows…
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Black Sun

A fantasy story inspired by Pre-Columbian American civilizations. It makes for a unique and intriguing story about celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
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Beach Read

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily everafters.
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The Last Thing He Told Me

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Hannah Hall knows exactly whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
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The Plot

Jake Finch Bonner is a washed up writer teaching at a third-rate MFA program. When an arrogant student reveals the plot of the novel he is sure will be a bestseller and receive all the accolades, Jake sadly agrees. Years pass, but the novel is never published leaving Jake to possibly revive his career by…
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