<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Books With Brittani]]></title><description><![CDATA[Books, Reviews, and Creative Vibes]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:02:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica]]></title><description><![CDATA[A family vacation gone wrong. Two dead bodies. One missing girl. Or is it two missing girls? One mother/aunt who is suspicious of everything and everyone. When Courtney, her family and her brother’s family all head out to a small resort on a small-town lake for a nice summer vacation, things turn out to be the furthest thing from nice you can get. Soon, her niece is missing, she’s keeping a close eye on three other children, and her husband is making choices that have her on high alert. Will...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/it-s-not-her-by-mary-kubica</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0f96f62b5c18841b9474bc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:42:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_83738f88bfd243c3afa882af6169d040~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[We Are All Guilty Here is set in small-town North Falls, where everyone knows everyone. Except… they don’t really. That becomes very evident when two teenage girls go missing, and throughout the investigation that ensues, everyone realizes that they didn’t know those two girls at all. Can Officer Emmy Clifton find them before the clock runs out? Then, years later, could a copycat culprit be on the loose in town again? Can Emmy catch this person before something horrible happens? There’s so...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/we-are-all-guilty-here-by-karin-slaughter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe727357c1b4d987682abc</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_4b5a5f154d404f4189e49251a409074f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_936,h_936,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m so upset because I’d recorded a whole video to RAVE about this book, aaaaaaand it wasn’t until a few weeks later that I found out the video didn’t properly capture the audio… So I had a nice, silent review video! ‍♀️ So, this won’t capture the same kind of fire from the video, but finally, here is my review for My Husband's Wife. “They always think it’s the husband, but sometimes, it’s the wife.” So, very quickly, here’s what this book is all about: Eden Fox leaves her house one...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/my-husband-s-wife-by-alice-feeney</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ffd815ecab9011375533e0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:18:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_15c434b309ce45fe8d179f4fd91b20e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_985,h_985,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Would Never Tell by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gowns. Champagne. Murder. Hollywood… but make it French, for 12 days straight. Yes, I’m talking about the Cannes Film Festival, because that’s the setting of the book I’m reviewing today! Three young, ambitious, talented women are the focal point of this novel, but sadly, they can’t seem to climb the ladder and make it big in this industry. Now that they’re in Cannes, they see it as the perfect opportunity to bring their talents into the spotlight. But then a multi-million-dollar necklace...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/we-would-never-tell-by-anne-sophie-jouhanneau</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07b4c80b9e4f37fd260502</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_e470171bc7fe4c72b244c1b2d795a01a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by L. M. Chilton]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’re seeing Kirby Cornell in two different parts of her life: when she’s 29 and a reporter for a small, local newspaper and living with roommates in a crappy flat with a crappy landlord in a town known for some horrific murders that happened in the 90s, and suddenly, a new roommate shows up one day. Then, we also have her a year later, and she’s now 30, she hasn’t been back to the small town of Crowhurst in 12 months because of the events that happened back then. The story leads us through...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/everyone-in-the-group-chat-dies-by-l-m-chilton</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07b2594187691eea852d52</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:02:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_624bddc421704638af7762b8c1dc2d83~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_808,h_808,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chief Inspector Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, are headed off for a little getaway to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Right before Canada Day, the pair make their way to the Manoir Bellechasse, in the thick of Quebec’s beautiful natural landscape, and find that there’s also a family reunion happening at the Manoir at the same time. Shockingly—or maybe not, since this is a Gamache book—there is a murder, and Gamache calls in his team in order to solve it. But how do the folks in Three...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/a-rule-against-murder-by-louise-penny</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0278c7618ba45174fb158a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:54:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_0c078eeab23f4383acb8a82197ecc8b2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena]]></title><description><![CDATA[A much beloved mother/wife/sister disappears, and the entire condo building turns into a potential crime scene. What happened to her? Is she still alive? Is she actually dead? If so, where is she? How could a potential murderer get her out of the building without anyone seeing it? How could her perfect life end in such an imperfect way? That’s what we need to figure out! My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 My Thoughts I have mixed feelings about this one. But regardless, I’m always going to give major...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/she-didn-t-see-it-coming-by-shari-lapena</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe61905bf92805eb60e15b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 22:27:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_9315068ef2c248b7b470869650156708~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[With A Vengeance by Riley Sager]]></title><description><![CDATA[One train, no stops. We’re headed for a deadly game of survival and revenge, all set in motion by the young and beautiful Anna Matheson. This has been a plan 12 years in the making, and her only goal is to get the small group of people she’s gathered on this historic train to confess to the crimes they committed against her family. But things will quickly derail in this story. My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts This is definitely a locked room (locked train?) mystery, but I don’t know if I’d...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/with-a-vengeance-by-riley-sager</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd1b2b666cfccd941857ef</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:12:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_37f1c608d4ea484aaad00985fbc98538~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Parisian Chapter by Janet Skeslien Charles]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s been 5 years since Lily and her best friend Mary Louise moved from Montana to Paris. Both women moved with the goal of becoming great artists, but these five years have not been kind to them or their friendship. When Mary Louise decides to move out of their shared apartment, leaving Lily on her own, Lily realizes she needs to get her act together. Lily is hired on at the American Library in Paris (ALP), a place she’s heard about all her life from an elderly neighbour in Montana. But the...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/the-parisian-chapter-by-janet-skeslien-charles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa8da9318c3f00f4eed9a1</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:48:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_934f4fac58f1436faa772555118f49fe~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego]]></title><description><![CDATA[“As so many fairytales point out, sometimes to slay a monster you become one, too…” Aria Stokes is living a pretty good life. She works in a bookshop—yes please!—and she’s dating a cute guy named Jasper who likes books and seems to really like her as well. On Valentine’s Day, Jasper takes Aria to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the famous Daedalus Library, a place known for its dark, haunting past. Except it’s the very last place Aria wants to be. When the power is cut and there’s no way out...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/the-library-after-dark-by-ande-pliego</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f40d1a90b4365cb85ece0b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:30:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_55bab753f27a4591811b0e2de6930365~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chambermaid's Key by Genevieve Graham ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to “The Dominion”, where secrets lurk behind every door. It’s 1929, and The Dominion Hotel has opened on Front Street in Toronto (does that sound familiar?). Rosie Ryan has her heart set on becoming a chambermaid, and when she’s just trying make enough money to get out of her current living situation, things start to go awry. Then we have Bridget in Toronto 2024, a building inspector overseeing renovations happening at The Dominion. When she finds mysterious boxes, secret corridors...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/the-chambermaid-s-key-by-genevieve-graham</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e65382e30ec41b7d05724f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:32:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_1bd77f24857d47689b178a2e0db4da59~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston]]></title><description><![CDATA[One solitary woman. One suspicious wife. One questionable husband. One business partner. One sly brother. One house full of criminals. One horrible event from the past. One murder victim. A bunch of different alibis... but that doesn't mean they're all true. And all of this comes from Ashley Elston's 2026 novel, Anatomy of an Alibi . Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston was good and had a bunch of different plot lines running around the central characters of the...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/anatomy-of-an-alibi-by-ashley-elston</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e581f65e3a88e8e09e5c04</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:39:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_b0c6f35bcfe44527aabd98e5e7567f4f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of the Muse by Kate Hilton]]></title><description><![CDATA[In City of the Muse by Kate Hilton, a female researcher/papyrologist named Helen arrives in Egypt to join an excavation crew in the early 1900s, and though she is thrilled to be a part of the team, she learns that the only reason she is there is because her predecessor disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Then, in Toronto in 2019, a different female researcher named Maddie is feeling like her whole career has hit a dead end/stalled out, you name it. But in a weird way, she’s connected...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/city-of-the-muse-by-kate-hilton</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dd174fc31b00fb85141177</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:26:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_1ca35ae76bd3404f8e400a30cb745281~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are objects around the world that hold magical qualities, and they’re hidden in plain sight. But regular folks like you and I probably wouldn’t be able to find them. But a secret society based in London has been protecting these objects for decades, and they must do everything they can to stop some newcomers from abusing the power these objects contain. That’s where Gareth Brown’s new book comes in. My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Thoughts: This book was definitely unique and I really enjoyed...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/the-society-of-unknowable-objects</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69daea1975afb0779a732be1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:42:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_2e07ace6a9d343678d3a1075675bf9a1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s be honest: there is a massive fandom for Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary right now, and I’m the latest to jump on the bandwagon (and my dog is too, since she demanded to be in this video so she could watch outside…). I guess it’s also good timing to do so, with the movie now out, the latest NASA mission that is sending astronauts around the moon (with a Canadian onboard!) and so on. For those of you who don’t know about this, Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi thriller about a man who is in...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/project-hail-mary</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dae0c18614fb4128af40c2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:16:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_42212a2c29eb45a0975282f3d89b0eeb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger]]></title><description><![CDATA[One day, Selena finds herself working late in the city and she must suddenly run for the late train back home to her husband and children. She takes a seat beside a beautiful stranger in the busy train car, and they strike up a conversation as they wait for a track delay to clear. In this weird situation they’re in, both ladies start spilling secrets - let's call it spilling confessions - about their lives, and a kind of bond forms. When the train starts moving again, it’s like the ladies...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/confessions-on-the-7-45</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dadf22515c02011a0fbb85</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_c0bfcffd967c429fbc94b2b1e4dbaaab~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_941,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adrift by Will Dean]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a family’s descent into utter darkness. When Peggy, Drew and their teenage son move to a small canal boat, they think all their family problems will be solved, but it’s really just the beginning. Both Peggy and Drew are writers, and when Peggy finds sudden success, Drew’s jealousy knows no bounds. He moves their boat further and further away from the rest of civilization, just adrift in the middle of nowhere, and where Peggy was once the glue that held this family together, it may not...]]></description><link>https://www.bookswithbrittani.com/post/adrift</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dae1c3515c02011a0fc195</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:15:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/796ce1_98ac378f07334eddb38483152402d1ac~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_885,h_885,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brittani</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>