The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg was everything I wanted from a historical fiction book. Doris is a 96-year-old woman who on the surface is lonely and quiet, no friends or family left to care for her. But as Doris opens her red address book, time unravels, as well as memories of poverty, death,…
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain (Book Review) — You won’t want to put this book down!
Thank you to BookishFirst for the free book! A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 star read! Carly is a young pregnant woman in North Carolina in 1970 who has a decision to make for her future daughter that asks the reader: how far will a mother go for her children? This is a book everyone should go into…
Entangled Lives – Book REVIEW (Releases 7/27/18)
Entangled Lives by Imran Omer – 4/5 Stars – Thank you, NetGalley and Roundfire Books, for the advanced reading copy! Releases tomorrow! Review Below. Entangled Lives has been the most diverse and unique reads of this year for me. Overall, I’m glad I read this book because it gave me a perspective of a world…
Book Review: The Vines We Planted by Joanell Serra
The Vines We Planted was the perfect ebook read and I’m so glad I read this one! It’s a classic complex family story that demonstrates how everyone’s life is interwoven and affected by each decision a person makes, but more importantly, the impenetrable strength of a community when someone is in need. Love plants us,…
Book Review: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
This has moved to my top favorite release of 2018. Fredrik Backman does it again with another spectacular story of LIFE, the way it is, should be, and could be. Us Against You is the second book after Beartown, and if you haven’t started this two-part book series yet, it’s time to pick it up!…
BOOK REVIEW: The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
[4/5 stars] The Lying Game is a suspense novel told from the perspective of Isa, a civil attorney in her thirties with a six-month old daughter, who receives a text from an old boarding school friend of hers, Kate, that simply reads: “I need you.” The text is sent to two other close friends of…
BOOK REVIEW: How to Walk Away by Katherine Center – The Perfect Read for 2018
Katherine Center’s How to Walk Away (releasing May 15th) has all the ingredients for that perfect summer read you’ve been looking for; a dash of romance, a sprinkle of healing familial relationships, a cup of inspirational passages for life improvement, and one heaping scoop of tragedy and heartbreak. Okay, maybe tragedy and heartbreak isn’t quite…
