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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …