The Midwest Blonde

Final Girl Support Group  By: Grady Hendrix   Released: July 13th, 2021  Pages: 352 My Rating: /5  Goodreads Synopsis:  In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynet…

Under the Whispering Door  By: T. J. Klune   Released: September 21st, 2021   Pages: 373 My Rating: 5/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.  Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is …

Beautiful World, Where Are You  By: Sally Rooney  Released: September 7th, 2021  Pages: 356 My Rating: 3/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eilee…

The Butterfly Garden   By: Dot Hutchison    Released: June 1st, 2016  Pages: 288 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious "butterflies" - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brut…

Heartstopper Vol. 1  By: Alice Oseman  Released: October 2018  Pages: 278 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The pastier hasn't be…

Get a Life, Chloe Brown  By: Talia Hibbert   Released: November 5th, 2019  Pages: 373 My Rating: 3/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  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 out of her glamorous family's …

Beautiful Country: A Memoir  By: Qian Julie Wang   Released: September 7th, 2021 Pages: My Rating: 5/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 fill of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian's parents were professors; in Ame…

Isn't It Bromantic?  By: Lyssa Kay Adams  Released: February 7th, 2017   Pages: 496 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Elena Konnikova has lived her entire adult life in the shadows. As the daughter of a Russian journalist who mysteriously disappeared, she escaped danger the only way she knew how: She married her childhood friend, Vladimir, and moved to the United States, where he is a profession…

Once There Were Wolves   By: Charlotte McConaghy   Released: August 3rd, 2021   Pages: 272 My Rating: 5/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sist…

Yolk  By: Mary H.K. Choi Released: March 2nd, 2021   Pages: 400 My Rating: /5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Jayne Baek is barely getting by. She shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she's not fully read to confront. But that's New York City, right? At least she isn't in Texas anymore, and is finally living in …