Category: Book Reviews
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Review: ACK! by Cory Sanchez with illustrations by Monika Suska
Thank you so much to Cory from ackthebook.com for providing me with this LOVELY copy! I’m SO excited to talk about ACK! One Simple Secret on How to Beat Bad Days, and Live a Happy Joy-Filled Life by Cory Sanchez with illustrations by Monika Suska… I don’t know if you’ve seen this bouncing around social…
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Review: I, ELIZA HAMILTON by Susan Holloway Scott
Thank you so much to Kensington for providing me with an advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a respected general and understands how to carry herself as a soldier’s daughter. She is well-educated and accustomed to hosting dignitaries and soldiers along side her beloved parents. On…
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Review: CASTLE OF WATER by Dane Huckelbridge
I read this novel SO incredibly fast. It was so beautiful and the writing was EXQUISITE. “And there, amid the blue honey water and white sugar sands and wide-open smiles, of the native Polynesians, he knows he has finally found the place- not where he wants to die, but, rather, where he wants to live.”…
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Review: GATHER THE DAUGHTERS by Jennie Melamed
This was the August selection for Instagram’s Salt Water Reads Book Club. It turned out to be one of my favorite books thus far in 2017! Summary: Many years ago, a group of ten families are forced to flee their home and colonize a remote island, separated from the rest of the world. The male…
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Review: THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RISE LIKE THE WATERS UPON YOUR SHORE: A Story of American Rage by Jared Yates Sexton
Thank you to Counterpoint Press and Kate Olson (theloudlibrarylady.com) for providing me this copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: On June 14, 2016 journalist Jared Yates Sexton attended a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to witness these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the…
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Review: COCOA BEACH by Beatriz Williams
This was the inaugural pick for the Salt Water Reads Book Club back in July and it was the PERFECT choice! Summary: Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I in France. She becomes an ambulance driver for the Red Cross…
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Review: STILL LIFE by Louise Penny
Summary: This is the first book in a thirteen book series. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just…
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Review: FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager
Thank you so much to Stacey from proseandpalate.com, Penguin Random House and Dutton for this finished copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Ten years ago, Quincy went on a trip with her boyfriend and friends and stayed at a cabin called Pine Cottage. It started out as a fun trip but ended up…
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Review: FIERCE KINGDOM by Gin Phillips
This was my August Book of the Month pick. Three hours of being in panic mode. Summary: The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son, Lincoln soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy and everything seems perfect. She hustles to leave as it is almost closing time, but…
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Review: CONFESSIONS by Kanae Minato
This was Criminally Good Book Club’s August pick and let me just say… WOAH. Summary: Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following Manami’s tragic death that occurred on the middle school grounds where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has…