Category: Literary Fiction
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Review: GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER by Shobha Rao
Thank you so much Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Poornima blinked, but it wasn’t tears she blinked back. What was it? She didn’t know, but she could see it—-floating in the air around her, suffocating, spinning like ash.” Book Description:Â Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against…
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Review: TRENTON MAKES by Tadzio Koelb
Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: 1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege. In the hardscrabble industrial…
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Book Mail: THE WILD INSIDE by Jamey Bradbury
This book looks incredible! I have a soft spot for Siberian Huskies so I am obsessed with this cover! Thank you so much William Morrow for sending this lovely free copy my way! SYNOPSIS: “The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel â think of the BrontĂ« sisters and Stephen King.”…
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Book Mail: ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS by Elizabeth J. Church & THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin
Thank you so much Random House for sending me these gorgeous copies! The are STUNNING and look incredible! I will leave the synopses below. ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS: A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegasâand finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. It…
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Book Mail: SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD by Jasmin Darznik
Many thanks to Random House for sending me this lovely free copy! The cover is BEAUTIFUL and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied societyâs expectations to find her voice and her destiny  âRemember the flight, for the bird is mortal.â…
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Book Mail: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
I love stories that combine genres to create something truly unique! Thank you so much to Wunderkind PR and Saga Press for sending my free copy! I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: âDark and gripping and tense and beautiful.â âKaren Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We…
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Review: THE GLASS FOREST by Cynthia Swanson
Thank you so much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At twenty-one, sheâs married to charming, handsome Paul, and has just given birth to a baby boy. But one…
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Review: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. âWhat if ghosts think theyâre the real ones, and weâre the dead ones?â Book Description: Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connectionsâeven his emotional…
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Book Mail: THE PAST IS NEVER by Tiffany Quay Tyson
Thank you so much Skyhorse Publishing for sending this free copy my way! It sounds amazing and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, magical realism, and the search for a missing child. Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to…
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Review: THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT by Nafkote Tamirat
Thank you so much to Henry Holt for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “I didn’t even believe in God. But did my believing in something render it true? Doesn’t the truth remain the truth, regardless of what I think? My mother used to say that God stopped sending plagues because…