Reading
-
Review: Our House by Louise Candlish
This is another book thats been all over my Instagram for the last month or so. I was approached a few months ago to read it and put it on my calendar for late summer and then moved on to other books. When it came time to read this one, I had kind of forgotten about it but then I started seeing these posts on Instagram and was like ‘OMG I need to read this book!’. Then I remembered that I was supposed to be reading this one, and soon! So I started to get excited! There’s nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except…
-
Special Feature: NOT HER DAUGHTER by Rea Frey
This mystery novel will be up for review on my blog here in the fall but until there I wanted to do a special feature since it came out just yesterday, 8/21. Take a minute and read this tantalizing summary and tell me you aren’t excited to read this one too? You know it’s going to be good when someone has already secured the rights for a TV/film adaption, which you can read all about here! Emma Grace Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June. Emma Townsend is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and…
-
Review: The Ancient Nine by Ian Smith
So I mostly picked up this book because it was set at Harvard. My sister works there and I’ve been back to visit and it makes such a great setting for any number of books. I was intrigued by the title and the mysterious club that this book centers around. Spencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med; hard workouts and grinding work in class. The friends he’s made when he hits the storied ivy-clad campus from a very different life in urban Chicago are a happy bonus. But Spencer is about to be introduced to the most mysterious inner sanctum of the inner…
-
Announcement: WINNER of The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard
And the winner of THE WHALE: A LOVE STORY by Mark Beauregard is….. Dana (follows on Instagram) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
-
Special Feature: Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton
Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton Paperback Publication Date: July 10, 2018 Anchor Books Paperback; 352 Pages Genre: Historical Fiction Philadelphia, 1883. Twenty-three-year-old Lilli de Jong is pregnant and alone—abandoned by her lover and banished from her Quaker home. She gives birth at a charity for wronged women, planning to give up the baby. But the power of their bond sets her on a completely unexpected path. Unwed mothers in 1883 face staggering prejudice, yet Lilli refuses to give up her baby girl. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep the two of them alive. Lilli confides this story to her diary…
-
Review: Tiffany Blues by M.J. Rose
I’ve been a fan of M.J. Rose for quite some time. She always writes really rich and atmospheric novels of romance and historical fiction blended together. I love her Reincarnationist series is really fun but I got hooked on her books with her Daughters of La Lune books! She has this great storytelling style that never seems to fail in any of her series’. She always has this velvety tone and it never fails to hook me. So when this book came up for review, to say I was thrilled was a complete understatement. More like I was swooning at not only the fact that a new MJ Rose novel…
-
Review: An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
This was a book that I originally passed on but then changed my mind. I have been seeing this book all over my Instagram and I caved under the peer pressure! When I passed on it, it was mostly because my review schedule was really tight for August, but I had also been reading a ton of thrillers and I was kind of ready for a break. But as I said, I have zero self control sometimes so I caved and decided to review this one and fit it in when I could. As luck would have it, I finished one of my August books suer early so I was…
-
Review: The Hawkweed Legacy (Hawkweed Prophecy #2) by Irena Brignull
When I was pitched this book, I thought this was the first in the series. I loosely read the summary and just assumed that it was the first one. So let’s get this out of the way first—read the first book in the series before you read this book. It’s hard for me to write a review for this one because it’s very clearly part of a series and was meant to be read by people who had read the first book. With that in mind, I could have backed out and said I would rather wait and read the first one before writing a review, but I made a…
-
Giveaway: THE WHALE: A LOVE STORY by Mark Beauregard
I am thrilled to be offering this book up for giveaway this week! Can we talk about how beautiful that cover is?! It makes me think of the summer and beach reading! A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville’s emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end—his last three novels have been commercial failures and the critics have turned against him. In despair, Melville takes his…
-
Special Feature: Murder at the Flamingo (A Van Buren and DeLuca Mystery #1) by Rachel McMillan
I was so sad that I couldn’t fit this one in to my review schedule for the summer, so I opted to do a special feature instead! This looks like a promising new mystery series with an intriguing duo! About Murder at the Flamingo Series: A Van Buren and DeLuca Mystery (Book 1) Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (July 10, 2018) “Maybe it was time to land straight in the middle of the adventure…” Hamish DeLuca has spent most of his life trying to hide the anxiety that appears at the most inopportune times — including during his first real court case as a new lawyer. Determined to rise above his father’s expectations,…