Category: Book Reviews
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Review: PURE by Linda Kay Klein
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the 1990s, a âpurity industryâ emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual âstumbling blocksâ for boys and men, and any expression…
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Blog Tour & Review: WILDCHILDS by Eugenia Melian
Thank you so much Smith Publicity for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Seventeen years ago, Iris was forced to abandon Gus, the love of her life, and her career as a top model in Paris. She has created a new life for herself and her daughter, âŻLou,⯠in California.…
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Blog Tour & Review: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL by Britney King
Thank you so very much to the fabulous Britney King for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the upscale suburb where Vanessa Bolton lives, sheâs your average suburban housewife. She does her grocery shopping on Tuesday, Thursday mornings are reserved for Pilates, Sundays for church. At home, sheâs an impeccable…
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Review: BITTER ORANGE by Claire Fuller
Thank you so much Tin House for my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Description:Â From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees themâCara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while…
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Blog Tour & Review: NOVEMBER ROAD by Lou Berney
Thank you so much to William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. âWith every decision we create a new future,â Leo said. âWe destroy all other futures.â Description: Frank Guidry, a loyal street lieutenant to New Orleansâ mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But…
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Review: OUR HOUSE by Louise Candlish
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she’s sure there’s been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird’s nest custody, where each parent spends…
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Review: RUST & STARDUST by T. Greenwood
Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth’s, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make…
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Review: TIFFANY BLUES by M.J. Rose
Many thanks to Get Red PR and Atria for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: New York, 1924. Twentyâfourâyearâold Jenny Bell is one of a dozen burgeoning artists invited to Louis Comfort Tiffanyâs prestigious artistsâ colony. Gifted and determined, Jenny vows to avoid distractions and romantic entanglements and take full…
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Review: AFTER NIGHTFALL by A.J. Banner
Thank you so much Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyoneâs evening. After an…
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Review: JANE DOE by Victoria Helen Stone
Thank you so much Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Janeâs days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. Sheâs just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth…