Category: Book Reviews
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Blog Tour: THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by Damien Angelica Walters
Thank you so much to Crooked Lane Books for my free copy. Description: Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit…
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Blog Tour: LADY IN THE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you so much Faber & Faber for my free copy. Description: Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn’t hard to understand why: it’s 1964 and neither the police, the public, nor the papers care much when…
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Blog Tour: THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA HILL by Abbi Waxman
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy. Description: The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than…
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Blog Tour: LAST SUMMER by Kerry Lonsdale
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate…
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Blog Tour & Review: THE FLATSHARE by Beth O’Leary
Thank you so much Flatiron Books for my copy. Description: Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes…
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Blog Tour & Review: VALENCIA AND VALENTINE by Suzy Krause
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours, Lake Union Publishing, and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia’s therapist suggests that she fly somewhere—anywhere—before her upcoming…
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Blog Tour & Review: FALSE STEP by Victoria Helen Stone
Thank you TLC Book Tours and Lake Union Publishing for my free copy! Description: For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but unharmed, on a hiking trail miles from his wealthy family’s mountain home. In…
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Blog Tour: THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO by Ana John
Description: Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s…
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Blog Tour: ONLY EVER HER by Marybeth Mayhew Whelan
Description: Annie Taft’s wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going according to plan. Except that Annie herself has vanished. Did she have second thoughts? Or has…
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Review: THE PARTING GLASS by Gina Marie Guadagnino
Thank you so much Atria Books for my gorgeous free copy! Description: By day, Mary Ballard is lady’s maid to Charlotte Walden, wealthy and accomplished belle of New York City high society. Mary loves Charlotte with an obsessive passion that goes beyond a servant’s devotion, but Charlotte would never trust Mary again if she knew…