book reviews An Unusual Take on a Fairy Tale We All Know and Love August 7, 2025 / August 16, 2025 by Star Cat Books Mary Darling is an alumnus of living with Peter Pan. She is not the prim proper Victorian lady: she is one kickass woman. Wesley the bookstore cat was also enthralled by the book and helped me read it. Read more » Fairy tale science fiction
book reviews REVIEW: Wish Upon a K-Star by Kat Cho March 26, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Emily Fleischer | Leave a Comment When you wish upon a K-Star, all your dreams come true. In this charming YA novel, up-and-coming K-drama star Shin Hyderi must pretend to date her former teenage crush and enormous K-Pop Idol Moon Minseok. Cho explores the darker side of fame with a Korean pop culture background–one of the most notoriously intense fame machines […] Read more » Romance
Audio books book reviews REVIEW: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler February 11, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment This lovely little novel centers around Gail Blaine — mother, ex-wife, suddenly unemployed educator — and three days surrounding her daughter’s (Debbie) wedding. And her ex, Max, who shows up unannounced for said wedding, expecting to stay at Gail’s house. With a cat. Not his, he claims, but a foster; does Gail mind that the […] Read more » Fiction
Audio books book reviews REVIEW: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid January 31, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Mae Vincent The writer of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six has done it again! Atmosphere is so well done, it’s a gorgeous portrait of NASA’s space shuttle program in the 80s that manages to be entertaining, emotional, and downright gorgeous. The story was told in a creative and captivating way, […] Read more » Fiction LGBTQA Romance Space
book reviews REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman January 25, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts in New York, after World War II. The book is an ostensibly middle reader version of Friedman’s adult book of the same, told from […] Read more » children's books Holocaust Middle Reader
book reviews REVIEW: Never Gamble Your Heart January 8, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Never Gamble Your Heart (Forever (Grand Central Publishing), pub date Feb 4, 2025, 384pp, $17.99) Genre: Romance with mystery. A charming Victorian romance, updated for modern values regarding women’s independence, but quite lovely, well-told, and eminently readable. I tore through it (even while taking notes!). I read an ARC of this (Advanced Reading Copy) because […] Read more » mystery Romance Victorian
book reviews Review: After Life by Gayle Forman December 14, 2024 / August 7, 2025 by Andrew Phillips | Leave a Comment AFTER LIFE, Gayle Forman, Quill Tree Books (Harper Collins), ISBN 978-0-0633-4614-7, January 2025, $19.99, 272pp. After Life is a fine example of my long-held belief that one is never too old for a “Young Adult” book. The story begins with a lyrical description of a young woman riding her bicycle home, and expressing the pleasures […] Read more » death YA
book reviews Review: MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, Sarah Suk December 12, 2024 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, by Sarah Suk. Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), trade paperback, 288pp. Price $19.99. Pub date: April 1, 2025. This young adult book (13 and up) is set primarily in South Korea, centered around one of the protagonist’s mother’s clinic, Sori of Us Clinic (Sori Clinic run by Dr. Bae), a memory […] Read more » friendship YA
book reviews REVIEW: Midnights With You September 12, 2024 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Book By: Clare Osongco Review By: Mae Vincent September 12, 2024 Content warnings: Emotional abuse, domestic violence, racism and sexual harassment Midnights With You is a young adult coming-of-age novel that follows Deedee, a seventeen-year-old who has a struggling relationship with her mother. Deedee’s family, friendships, and romantic relationships felt realistic and relatable. The story […] Read more » Romance
book reviews Review: Such a Bad Influence March 7, 2024 / August 7, 2025 by Mae Vincent | 1 Comment on Review: Such a Bad Influence Book By: Olivia Muenter Review by: Mae Vincent March 7, 2024Mae’s rating: 4/5 stars Content warning: Eating disorders, abuse, death, trauma Such a bad influence is a thriller that follows Hazel, the older sister of prominent social media influencer Evie Davis. The book begins with Evie disappearing on a live stream. We follow Hazel as […] Read more » mystery New Adult
