Category: Book Reviews
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Review: FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug…
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Review: OKAY FINE WHATEVER by Courtenay Hameister
Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She fretted about everything. Her age.…
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Review: GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
Many thanks to Kathleen Carter, Amazon Publishing, and Lake Union Authors for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: For estranged friends Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren, it’s time to heal the old wounds between them. Where better to repair those severed ties than on a girls’ getaway to the beautiful…
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Review: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN by Jo Piazza
Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still reeling from a presidential election that…
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Blog Tour Review: IF YOU LEAVE ME by Crystal Hana Kim
Thank you so much to William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few…
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Review: THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero
Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In a dingy office in Fisherman’s Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one…
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Blog Tour Review: VOX by Christina Dalcher
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can’t happen here. Not in America. Not to her. Soon women…
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Review: JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom
Many thanks to Little, Brown and Company for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1899, Allie Rowbottom’s great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that…
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Review: THE RENDING AND THE NEST by Kaethe Schwehn
Thank you so much to Bloomsbury Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When 95 percent of the earth’s population disappears for no apparent reason, Mira does what she can to create some semblance of a life: She cobbles together a haphazard community named Zion, scavenges the Piles…
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Review: THE MYTH OF PERPETUAL SUMMER by Susan Crandall
Thank you so much Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family’s reputation and…