Category: Literary Fiction
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Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West
Thank you so much Park Row Books for my free copy. Description: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent…
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Review: MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Thank you so much William Morrow for my free copy. Description: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused…
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Blog Tour: A WOMAN IS NO MAN by Etaf Rum
Special thank you to Harper Books for this amazing opportunity. Description: Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to…
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Blog Tour and Review: THE CURRENT by Tim Johnston
THE CURRENT: A Novelby Tim JohnstonAlgonquin Books / Publication Date: January 22, 2019Price: $27.95; Hardcover; 416 pages; ISBN: 978-1616206772Follow Algonquin books on Twitter at @algonquinbooks or on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/algonquinbooksAmazon Purchase Link Description: New York Times bestselling author Tim Johnston’s debut novel, Descent, achieved that rare feat—widespread critical acclaim and a spot on the New York Times bestseller…
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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: THE BOOK OF ESSIE by Meghan MacLean Weir
Many many thanks to Knopf for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Esther Ann Hicks–Essie–is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She’s grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family’s fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant,…
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Blog Tour & Review: PUTNEY by Sofka Zinovieff
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realize it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled.” Description: A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s,…
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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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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: 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…