Category: Historical Fiction
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Beautiful Book Mail: THE ROOM ON RUE AMÉLIE by Kristin Harmel
I love historical fiction! Thank you so much Gallery Books for sending me this gorgeous copy! This cover is everything and I am excited to read it! SYNOPSIS: For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family—by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet…
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Book Mail: TANGERINE by Christine Mangan
Thank you so much to Ecco Books for sending this STUNNING copy! Can we just take a moment and GUSH over this cover?!! It’s SO beautiful! I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident…
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Review: HOLMES ENTANGLED by Gordon McAlpine
Thank you so much to Prometheus Books and Seventh Street Books for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Sherlock Holmes, now in his seventies, retired from investigations and peaceably disguised as a professor at Cambridge, is shaken when a modestly successful author in his late-sixties named Arthur Conan…
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Review: ISLAND OF SWEET PIES AND SOLDIERS by Sara Ackerman
Thank you so much to the author and MIRA Books for sending this lovely book my way – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet…
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Review: THE TUSCAN CHILD by Rhys Bowen
Thank you so much Little Bird Publicity and Lake Union Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the…
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Gorgeous Book Mail from Little Brown: CIRCE by Madeline Miller
This is my most anticipated read this month! I just started it and I’m already in love! Abby is the cutest reading buddy and she matches my book perfectly! Oh and the cover is freaking GORGEOUS!!! SYNOPSIS: The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles One of the Most…
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Little Brown Book Mail: THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS by Luis Alberto Urrea
Thank you so much the always wonderful Little, Brown and Company for this gorgeous copy! I have heard nothing but great things about this author so I am very excited to read this! SYNOPSIS: From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a powerful and unforgettable portrait of one Mexican American family and the American dream “One…
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Gorgeous Book Mail: WHERE THE WILD CHERRIES GROW by Laura Madeleine
This cover is so beautiful and I think the description sounds incredible! Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Press for this surprise book mail. A tiny seaside villiage in the South of France…. yes please! I cannot wait to read it! Synopsis: How far must you run to leave the past behind in order…
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Book Mail: THE BOOKWORM by Mitch Silver
Thank you to Wunderkind PR and Pegasus Books for sending me a free copy! It looks fantastic and that cover is gorgeous! Synopsis: Why did Hitler chose not to invade England when he had the chance? Europe, 1940: It’s late summer and Belgium has been overrun by the German army. Posing as a friar, a…
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Blog Tour Review: NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA by Chanel Cleeton
My Review: Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Her stories smelled of gardenias and jasmine, tasted of plantains and mamey, and always sound of her old record player.” There are many reasons why I love this book but one very…