Category: From Publisher
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Review: SISTER OF MINE by Laurie Petrou
Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do…
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Review: OUR HOUSE by Louise Candlish
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she’s sure there’s been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird’s nest custody, where each parent spends…
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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: TIFFANY BLUES by M.J. Rose
Many thanks to Get Red PR and Atria for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: New York, 1924. Twenty‑four‑year‑old Jenny Bell is one of a dozen burgeoning artists invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany’s prestigious artists’ colony. Gifted and determined, Jenny vows to avoid distractions and romantic entanglements and take full…
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Review: AFTER NIGHTFALL by A.J. Banner
Thank you so much Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone’s evening. After an…
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Review: JANE DOE by Victoria Helen Stone
Thank you so much Amazon Publishing for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth…
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Review: WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT by Sandra Block
Thank you so much Sourcebooks for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what’s worse ― her memory of the attack has…
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Review: SUICIDE CLUB by Rachel Heng
Many thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “Lea studied the lines of his face. In them she saw again every expression he had ever made–every smile and frown and sigh–saw how they jostled for room on the canvas of his skin, how they’d etched their fleeting…
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Review: IF YOU SEE ME, DON’T SAY HI by Neel Patel
Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will…
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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,…