book review

I first read Blake Crouch for book club when we picked up Dark Matter, then again when we read Recursion. Although I don’t ever pick up this genre (sci fi) on my own, I ended up really falling hard into …

When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mother’s past and her …

The Summary August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she …

Thank you so much to Jennifer Haupt for sending me Come As You Are! The synopsis appealed to me right away and I’m so glad I decided to read this one. Summary Set against a backdrop of Seattle in the …

Great Circle was not what I expected, but I did end up liking it! Read on for my full review and find out what I didn’t expect. The Synopsis Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, …

An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.

About Hell and High Water • Paperback: 282 pages• Publisher: Level Best Books (March 31, 2020) Alaskan attorney Maeve Malloy isn’t sure she’s cut out to be a lawyer. All she wants is to be treated like everyone else. Hiding her past, she …

It’s so easy to turn it off. To ignore the news. To read a heart-wrenching headline, feel a pang of sadness, and then return to thoughts of whether you’re more in the mood for pizza or pasta for dinner. It’s …

The Summary Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure where he’s going or why, but it means that he gets to sit in the front seat of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. …

The Summary Disclosure – We earn a small commission for any items purchased through the Amazon links below at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting Literary Quicksand! Three women from the same Minnesota family have their stories …