First, I want to thank the team at St. Martin’s Press for sending me an advanced copy to read and review. I was also lucky enough to receive one of the candles they used to promote the book and it is already long gone. It was just the perfect scent to relax with in the evenings. I am pleased to say that I absolutely adored this book. I read it in two sittings which is a feat when you have […]
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill was utterly charming, relatable, and filled with laugh-out-loud moments. I suspect many readers will see parts of themselves reflected in Nina. This is one of those books that I had read in two sittings which is an accomplishment when you have a toddler. I found Nina’s story to be engaging; filled with colorful characters and behaviors that reminded me of myself and people I know. I enjoyed the narrator’s voice in this book. While […]
It’s Not You It’s Him Sophie Ranald Genre: Contemporary Romance / Rom Com Published: June 18, 2019 Rating: New Year’s Eve. The most overrated night of the year, right? I have to get through a night of enforced fun, drink all the prosecco and talk about new beginnings. But I don’t want new beginnings. I want my old beginning back. It’s been ten days, two hours and forty-three minutes since Tansy got dumped. Two heartbreaking weeks since Renzo, who made […]
I’m Fine and Neither Are You Camille Pagan Genre: Women’s Fiction Published: April 1, 2019 (Lake Union Publishing) Rating: Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all—and barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet, appears to be sailing through life. As close as the two women are, Jenny’s passionate marriage, pristine house, and ultra-polite child stand in stark contrast to Penelope’s underemployed husband, Sanjay, their unruly brood, and the daily grind she calls a career. Then […]
The Last Year of the War Susan Meissner Genre: Historical Fiction Published: March 19, 2019 (Berkley) Rating: Synopsis: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943–aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved […]