BookBrowse | Book Reviews and Recommendations

Reviews by Lesa R. (Joliet, IL)

If you'd like to be able to easily share your reviews with others, please join BookBrowse.

The Whyte Python World Tour: A Novel
by Travis Kennedy

I've known dudes like this! (4/23/2025)

I was anxious to read this book as I love when the topic is music/bands/1980's. The beginning of the book reeled me in but then I did feel after the CIA got more involved it became more hard to follow. I know these circumstances fit the history at the time but there were so …more

Bad Animals: A Novel
by Sarah Braunstein

Edgy and unusual: Two of my favorite things. (1/21/2024)

I really loved this book that was at times, all over the place! I liked the interesting characters and their unique backrounds. I enjoyed the author, Sarah Braunstein's style of writing. I found it to be totally relatable and at many times, I laughed out loud or got that …more

Leaving: A Novel
by Roxana Robinson

Kept me engrossed for a while..... (1/8/2024)

I really liked this book when I started it and was anxious to discover the fate of Sarah and Warren's future but as the story went on I started to really dislike the Warren character and his strange (at least to me) obsession with his adult daughter. I understand he wanted …more

Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by Tanya Frank

Zig-Zag Boy (3/21/2023)

I really enjoyed this sometimes heartbreaking book as I really like memoirs about peoples experiences with situations like Tanya's. I used to know someone a lot like Zach and so a lot of the things she wrote about I could relate to. It's amazing what some people have to go …more

Iron Curtain: A Love Story
by Vesna Goldsworthy

I really wanted to love this book (1/25/2023)

I liked the book but found the "love" story too unrealistic in that one would leave their life after knowing someone for 3 days. Oddly enough, this is also what made it more interesting because things livened up a bit when Milena left. In my opinion some of it went on and …more

The God of Endings: A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland

Stranger Take on Vampire Story (10/27/2022)

I am not a big fan of vampire stories. No offense, I just never got into the genre as millions of others did. If it wasn't for the swift moving prose I may not have gotten through it. I found it to be much too long with confusing, unnecessary names and places being thrown …more

Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
by Celeste Ng

Dystopian Future in the Eyes of a Child (9/15/2022)

Although I could not relate to the subject matter of this new, sure to be a hit, Celeste Ng novel, I generally always can appreciate a story told through the eyes of a child. This is not a feel good tale. It is relevant and fierce and leaves you burning through the pages as …more

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket — Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

Praised by *Parade* and *The New York Times Book Review*, this debut features a 1960s scientist turned TV cooking star.

About Discuss

Members Recommend

The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland

Four strangers join an experimental treatment to heal broken hearts in Amelia Ireland's heartfelt debut novel.

Read the Reviews
The Fairbanks Four
by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.

Read the Reviews
Ginseng Roots
by Craig Thompson

A new graphic memoir from the author of Blankets and Habibi about class, childhood labor, and Wisconsin’s ginseng industry.

Read the Reviews
One Death at a Time
by Abbi Waxman

A cranky ex-actress and her Gen Z sobriety sponsor team up to solve a murder that could send her back to prison in this dazzling mystery.

Read the Reviews
Serial Killer Games
by Kate Posey

A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry).

Read the Reviews