Review: The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang

Title: The Wangs vs. the World Author: Jade Chang ★★★★ Summary: Charles Wang—a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune—has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car …

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Review: Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Title: Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club #2) Author: Lyssa Kay Adams ★★★★ Summary: Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv …

Review: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Title: The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Author: Ann Rule ★★★★ Summary: Meeting in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, Ann Rule and Ted Bundy developed a friendship and correspondence that would span the rest of his life. Rule had no idea that when they went their separate …

Review: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Title: The Glass Hotel Author: Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★ Summary: Shipping executive Leon Prevant is there the night Vincent meets Jonathan Alkaitis. But thirteen years later, Jonathan is in jail for orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme that evaporated all of Leon's savings, and Vincent has mysteriously disappeared from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. …

Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Title: Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1) Author: Talia Hibbert ★★★ Summary: Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving …

Review: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Title: The Water Dancer Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★ Summary: Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother is sold away, Hiram is robbed of all memory of her—but gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births …

Review: Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

Title: Permanent Record Author: Mary H.K. Choi ★★★★ Summary: On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle, and he’s up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to …