Bog Queen by Anna North #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm for the ALC and Bloomsbury Books, #partner for the finished copy of Bog Queen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bloomsbury Books / Bloomsbury Publishing Published: October 14, 2025   Summary: The story of an anthropologist’s monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us When a body is found in a bog in northwest England,…

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The Antidote by Karen Russell #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm/PRH Audio for the ALC and Knopf, #partner, for the finished copy of The Antidote in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf / Random House Audio Published: March 11, 2025   Summary: From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on…

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The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 19, 2023   Summary: It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind―find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. There, Sasha is confronted with a group of squatters who have claimed the…

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The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Great Transition in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 15, 2023   Summary: For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and electrifyingly relevant climate utopia novel follows a family navigating a crisis both personal and…

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The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Light Pirate in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: December 6, 2022   Summary: For fans of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing…

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