Category: Literary Fiction

  • Review: SAVING BECK by Courtney Cole

    Review: SAVING BECK by Courtney Cole

    Thank you so much to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  There comes a time when offering your life for your child’s doesn’t work, when you realize that it’ll never be enough.  The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at…

  • Review: AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim

    Review: AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim

    Thank you so very much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to…

  • Review: TIN MAN by Sarah Winman

    Review: TIN MAN by Sarah Winman

    Many thanks to Putnam Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the…

  • Review: THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer

    Review: THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer

    Thank you so much to the wonderful people Riverhead Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of…

  • Review: THERE THERE by Tommy Orange

    Review: THERE THERE by Tommy Orange

    Many thanks to Alfred Knopf for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left…

  • Review: A PLACE FOR US by Fatima Farheen Mirza

    Review: A PLACE FOR US by Fatima Farheen Mirza

    Thank you so much Crown Publishing and Hogarth Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging.  Book Description:  As an Indian wedding gathers a family…

  • Review: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton

    Review: SOCIAL CREATURE by Tara Isabella Burton

    Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them… They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when…

  • Review: THE ENSEMBLE by Aja Gabel

    Review: THE ENSEMBLE by Aja Gabel

    Thank you so much Riverhead Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family…

  • Review: THE FAVORITE SISTER by Jessica Knoll

    Review: THE FAVORITE SISTER by Jessica Knoll

    Thank you so much Simon & Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder… Brett’s the fan favorite. Tattooed and only…

  • Review: THE FAMILY TABOR by Cherise Wolas

    Review: THE FAMILY TABOR by Cherise Wolas

    Many thanks to Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Harry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Gathering together in Palm Springs for the celebration are his wife, Roma, a distinguished…