The Porcelain Moon splits its focus between two different Chinese women living in France at the end of World War I. They are related and harboring secrets from each other which are threatening to slip out. Easy to read and beautifully sculpted, the book provides an experience that moves with grace from chapter to chapter….
The story of three generations of women play out in Sonali Dev’s The Vibrant Years, a lovely comedy featuring personal growth, hidden secrets, and family connections – and some of Dev’s narrative pitfalls. The overall result is definitely worthwhile but is perhaps a tad overlong. The Florida-bound Desai women are bonded together by general affinity,…
The Love Scribe is an intriguing fantasy that manages to poke at the readers’ sense of romantic importunity. But Meyerson’s navel-gazing style won’t be for everyone. Alice has been blessed with a sudden and unexpected gift that she discovers by mistake. Her best-friend Gabby is suffering from a harsh break-up, so Alice writes her a…
Liz Parker’s debut novel In the Shadow Garden has so much going for it. Eye-catching cover, fascinating premise, a decades-old mystery to solve. And there’s tea. Lots of tea. But some issues hold it back from earning a higher grade, and I wanted to like it more than I actually did. The Haywoods and the…
The Sweet Spot is a tangled and complex though still fun story – it definitely feels like living in a busy brownstone. It is the well told story of three women, a building in Manhattan, and the quasi-foundling who binds them together. Lauren and Leo Shaw and their three kids have inherited the straight-from-the-seventies brownstone…
If you know anything about doll collecting or doll house crafting will appreciate The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone. But even if you don’t, its lush fantasy climbs will enchant as it weaves its spell over you. Myra Malone lives an isolated life in the attic of her grandfather’s cabin. Ever since she was a…
Sometimes a book absolutely blows me away, and sometimes a book will make me smile. A Thousand Miles to Graceland, which combines a lot of my favorite fictional tropes into a single book, managed to make me do both. Kristen Mei Chase’s writing is extremely engaging, the trip she takes readers on a delight. Boston-based…
from The New York Times in October 2022: Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She’s sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham — combined. To say she’s currently the best-selling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books…
One part 9 to 5, one part romantic comedy, You Should Smile More is a funny, delightful romp about sweet revenge and even sweeter friendship. Cat-loving Vanessa Blair is tired of being judged both for her outward appearance and her presumptive demeanor. Yes, the book’s titular phrase is often spoken to her even at her…
On Saoirse Island, a rain soaked isle in the Pacific Northwest, a murmuration of starlings portends death and the leaves on the trees may burst into color all at once. Here, magic is as real as greed and first love can bind two souls together forever. Emery Blackwood and August Salt were born on the…
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