Knives as Bookmarks

    It's time for another ARC review. I did receive this book via Edelweiss, so shout out to them, but this is a cozy mystery centered around two sisters creating a true-crime podcast. There is representation for those that are hard of hearing since there is a character who is now completely deaf (I don't know how well this is done because I do not fit into this demographic and to my knowledge, this isn't own voices for it). But the book is about Liv Olson who used to work as a sound engineer in the #1 podcast series in the country, but now has given up that job to start her own podcast with her younger stepsister, Camry, called Missing or Murdered and the first season is surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Clark, a young woman who went missing after a Youtube video of her went viral that wasn't the most flattering. So Liv and Camry decide to head to Santa Maria to investigate.    Oh my gosh, is this so lighthearted and fun. It's very much a stereotypical c...

  For a lot of us, we always enjoy seeing books about bookish main characters and this is definitely one of those books. Nina Hill is very much a person who prefers a life-based in schedules. She has her book clubs once a week, trivia night once a week, and has always kinda been on her own. Her mother is a travel photographer who mainly left Nina with a nanny for most of Nina's life, and her father... well she never knew who her father was. UNTIL Nina gets a visit at her job at an independent bookstore from her father's lawyer, well her late father's lawyer. Apparently, Nina's father was a wealthy man with a rather large family and Nina gets thrown into the chaos of her father's side of the family: including several siblings, nieces, and nephews; Nina's family tree blooms from one branch to a full, blooming tree.  All in all, this book is overall very cute. Most of the conflict throughout this book is internal: Nina vs her own anxiety. Even...