Category: Review

Book Review: Harry’s Trees
How a book set in the Endless Mountains touched a coastal fiction lover. Read More …

Book Review: Witches’ Dance
This literary fantasy is definitely not #coastalfiction, but it both educated and entertained—and it will be all too easy to miss. Read More …

Book Review: When We Believed in Mermaids
Two sisters separated fifteen years ago find each other again—and are forced to confront the different lies they’ve always told about their childhood. Read More …

Book Review: BoatSense
This thin volume packs in an eclectic mix of education and entertainment. Read More …

Book Review: The Islanders
Meg Mitchell Moore’s 2019 novel is perfect for those waiting to read Ferry to Cooperation Island. Read More …

Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing
A novel set on the North Carolina coast is the best book I’ve read this year. Read More …

Book Review: Come With Me
A 2018 novel teaches me something about my own brain, even though both my life and my writing are quite different. Read More …

Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng’s careful and insightful novel asks, what makes the best family? Read More …

Book Review: Suspicion
Barbara Rogan’s book about a ghost-story writer who moves to a haunted house is full of surprises. Read More …

Book Review: Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult’s twenty-fifth novel drops us into a racially charged world—and makes us realize that there is no other kind. Read More …