Category: Book Reviews
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Review: HOLMES ENTANGLED by Gordon McAlpine
Thank you so much to Prometheus Books and Seventh Street Books for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Ā Book Description:Ā Ā Sherlock Holmes, now in his seventies, retired from investigations and peaceably disguised as a professor at Cambridge, is shaken when a modestly successful author in his late-sixties named Arthur Conan…
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Review: THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR by Sally Hepworth
Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā From the outside, Essieās life looks idyllic: a loving husband, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, and a nearby mother who dotes on her grandchildren. But few of Essieās friends know her secret…
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Review: ISLAND OF SWEET PIES AND SOLDIERS by Sara Ackerman
Thank you so much to the authorĀ and MIRA Books for sending this lovely book my way – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet…
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Review: THE TUSCAN CHILD by Rhys Bowen
Thank you so much Little Bird Publicity and Lake Union Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the…
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Review: BONE MUSIC by Christopher Rice
Iām so thankful to Little Bird Publicity, Thomas & Mercer, and Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Thereās more than one way to stoke the flames of revengeā¦ Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she…
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Review: FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi
Thank you so much to Grove Atlantic for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. ” The world in my head has been far more real than the one outsideā maybe thatās the exact definition of madness, come to think of it. Book Description:Ā Ada begins her life in the south of…
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Review: THE FRENCH GIRL by Lexie Elliott
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā We all have our secrets… They were six university students from Oxford–friends and sometimes more than friends–spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway…until…
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Review: BIRDS OF WONDER by Cynthia Robinson
Many thanks to Smith Publicity for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā Fiction. One August morning while walking her dog, high-school English teacher Beatrice Ousterhout stumbles over the dead body of a student, Amber Inglin, who was to play the lead in Beatrice’s production of John Webster’s Jacobean…
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Review: TWIST OF FAITH by Ellen J. Green
Thank you so much to Amazon Publishing and Thomas & Mercer for providing my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā After the death of her adoptive mother, Ava Saunders comes upon a peculiar photograph, sealed and hidden away in a crawl space. The photo shows a shuttered, ramshackle house on…
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Review: DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES AND OTHER STORIES by Kelly Barnhill
Thank you so much to Algonquin Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā When Mrs. Sorensenās husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in āMrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.ā In āOpen the Door and the Light Pours Through,ā a young man wrestles with grief…