There’s something delightfully twisted about reading A Million Reasons Why just weeks before Christmas (which I happened to do, though this review won’t be published until March). For it is a Christmas gift of a 23andMe style DNA testing kit that sets the plot going along on its delicious way. It’s a decent book, though…
The Lost Apothecary, the début novel from Sarah Penner, is a story told in dual timelines – the present day and 1791. It tells the story of a modern day woman uncovering the secrets of an apothecary who, in 1791, used her skills to rid women of the men who plagued their lives. It is…
Maybe One Day is a novel that follows a woman’s journey to find the truth of her past, and resolve the trauma of her youth. In doing so, she walks in the footsteps of her first love, the man she believed abandoned her, and tries to find her way back to him. Jess has spent…
I loved Float Plan! This is my first book by Trish Doller and I’m looking forward to reading through her past releases. Anna Beck needs to run away from her life. Less than a year earlier, her fiancé committed suicide and left Anna alone and spinning from the fallout. For the past ten months, she’s…
It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake reads like a cross between Bridget Jones’ Diary and Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, but for all its flashes of charm, it lacks the freshness of both books. It’s about an ordinary teacher who, in the wake of a traumatic breakup and and a unexpected death, decides to take…
Serena Singh Flips the Script is a tale about the joy, sorrow, laughter and tears that relationships bring to our lives. It’s a sweet, funny, occasionally insightful story, that will remind you what a blessing good friends are. Serena Singh has finally reached one of her big career goals. It hasn’t been easy. The advertising…
Ladies of the House is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, following a family as they fall from grace after the death of their patriarch. Mother and daughters have to grapple with their new lives, and learn to survive independently, despite a deck stacked against them. The Richardson women are blindsided by…
Our Darkest Night – a tale of how one young Jewish woman survived and thrived in WWII Italy – had me riveted from the first page to the last. Antonia Mazin’s father had been a famous doctor but by Autumn of 1943 the racial laws had stripped him of that title. Now the two of…
This Time Next Year, a New Year-themed British novel about a young woman in a pandemic-less 2020, offers not an enchanting dream of what this year could have been, but a story whose moral is: rich people are as miserable as we are, so warm yourself with that thought when you loathe your life. Minnie…
Pretending is a contemporary novel about a young woman sick of heartbreak and fear, who turns to another identity, a fake version of herself, to get by in the app-driven dating world. While it has a strong hook and a sympathetic main character, the story is so loosely held together that it was a drag…
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