The Bookish Ashley

Juliet FitzGerald’s Liar’s Dice is a striking debut that blends the raw ache of sisterhood with the charged atmosphere of 1970s Brazil under dictatorship. It’s a story about love, loss, and survival, told through the eyes of a teenage girl who refuses to stop searching for her twin sister, no…

October turned out to be the perfect mix of cozy nights, suspenseful plots, and heartfelt reflections. From twisty thrillers to honest essays, my reading list this month had a bit of everything. Here’s what I picked up in October: 1. Tell Them You Lied by Laura Leffler This one pulled…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ (4/5 stars) Eli Rallo’s Does Anyone Else Feel Like This? feels like a long, heart-spilling phone call with your best friend—the one who’s equally lost, equally overthinking, and equally determined to make it all work somehow. It’s raw, messy, and refreshingly human. Rallo captures the chaos of your twenties—the…

Halloween isn’t just for haunted houses and horror movies — sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones inside people’s minds. If you love a story that messes with your head, keeps you guessing, and makes you sleep with one eye open, psychological thrillers are where the real magic (and mayhem)…