Genre: Contemporary

Uptown Oracle Reads… Goodbye Days

After Carver loses his three best friends due to a car crash, he has multiple Goodbye Days to heal his grief. Carver can’t stop blaming himself for the accident. As we skip between before and after the accident, we see different relationships, family dynamics, and problems that people have. Zetner portrays multiple issues throughout Goodbye…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Paper Butterflies

June is a butterfly trapped in a net. As she tries to get free, her paper wings are torn and damaged. Paper Butterflies follows June’s dark home life as she gains hope in the form of Blister, a boy in the woods. Will he be able to free her from the net, unbroken? I haven’t…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Idea of You

The Idea of You follows Lucy as she struggles to have a baby, and to be a stepmother. As a woman who has always wanted her very own baby, her troubles rip holes in her otherwise perfect life. When her stepdaughter arrives, she starts to doubt even herself. Within the first chapter I realised this…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Noteworthy

My first thought while reading Noteworthy was that it connected with both Pitch Perfect and She’s the Man. As I love both of these films, I knew then that I would love this book. I loved the discussion about being feminine that Jordan has in her head. I feel like it’s a really important point…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Inconceivable Life of Quinn

I received The Inconceivable Life of Quinn* by Marianna Baer as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. A sense of magic in an otherwise normal world was… strange. Especially since it arrived at a fairly late part of the book. Although I enjoy fantasy books filled with magic, this book didn’t…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Today Will Be Different

I received Today Will Be Different* by Maria Semple as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The premise of improving yourself by being a good wife, mother and friend is an easily relatable quest. The inability to complete this quest due to life getting in the way is even…
Uptown Oracle reads… Beat the Rain

I received Beat the Rain by Nigel Jay Cooper as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to John Hunt Publishing and Nigel who I also spoke to! “Louise, grieving the death of her lover Tom, does the only thing she can think of to make the…
Uptown Oracle reads… Truly Madly Guilty

I received Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. “Despite their differences, Erika and Clementine have been best friends since they were children. So when Erika needs help, Clementine should be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you’d think. For…
Uptown Oracle reads… The Seed Collectors

I bought The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas due to good reviews and a promotion in Waterstones. The synopsis is when Great Aunt Oleander dies she leaves her nearest and dearest a seed pod each. The seed pod may be the reason Clem, Charlie, Fleur and Bryony’s parents went missing but they may also contain the…