Category: Book of the Month
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Pretty Book Mail: THE BROKEN GIRLS by Simone St. James
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for sending me an advance copy! Not only is this book a Book of the Month pick for February, but also it is the Black Heart Reads for April! Click here to join the fun! Synopsis: Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants–the troublemakers,…
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Review: BEASTS OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE by Ruth Emmie Lang
Summary: Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasnât like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. That tornado was the first of many strange events that…
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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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Let’s talk about Book of the Month!
Book of the Month is my very favorite book subscription! Like ever! My sister-in-law gifted it to me for Christmas and I’ve been OBSESSED ever since! On the first of each month there are five carefully curated books to choose from in many different genres. I’ve read some AMAZING books from this monthly subscription- many of…
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Review: WHITE FUR by Jardine Libaire
Summary: When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didnât graduate from high school; Jamey is…
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Review: GOODBYE, VITAMIN By Rachel Khong
Summary: Freshly disengaged from her fiancĂ© and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parentsâ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically…
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Review: INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins
âNo one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day.â Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage…