A story of life in a small southern town as led by the people who live and love there, Kristyn Kusek Lewis’ Half of What You Hear is a decent story about the way bigotry unkind gossip and can effect generations. Susannah – Cricket – Lane was raised staid, upper-class and southern, in old money…
I’m very rarely a Women’s Fiction reader. I am of the camp that truly prefers Romance and sticks solidly in my genre, only a few Women’s Fiction books per year getting me to make the bridge, and that is typically because they seem to have a strong romantic subplot. Life on the Leash convinced me…
Reading The Recipe Box was like drinking a large, thick milkshake that tasted of nothing but sugar. This book might charitably be described as sweet, perhaps even wholesome, but I found it a cloying one-note read. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, but if so, it’s not one I wish to acquire any time soon. The…
The Spring Girls is a modern take on a very classic tale – Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. In recent years and in the wake of the success of books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Little Women is a story that’s undergone multiple modernizations and reinventions – as a werewolf novel, as an erotic…
I hadn’t read a Kate Morton novel before picking up The Clockmaker’s Daughter, but her books have been recommended to me numerous times, leading to my having several of them on my shelves. When this novel became available for review I was eager to read it, certain this would give me the impetus to start…
A Spark of Light is the latest novel from bestselling author Jodi Picoult. In it, the author explores the timely issue of women’s reproductive health, and the way the pro-choice vs. pro-life debate impacts the lives of people everywhere. When a gunman bursts into a women’s reproductive health center on a sunny autumn morning, ready…
It was a dark and stormy night. Well, not really. It is however a rainy morning when our heroines meet. Eleanor Moskowitz is on the way to a job interview, frustrated by how her cab is stuck in traffic as the minutes tick away, when the impact occurs. The blow to the back of the…
I know whenever I pick up a novel about World War Two that I will most likely be reading a story that has a lot of heartache and sorrow in it. I hadn’t, however, expected Hidden Among the Stars to affect me quite as powerfully as it did. A haunting, atmospheric tale of love and…
After reading and absolutely loving both Lauren Willig’s The English Wife and Beatriz Williams’ The Summer Wives, I was thrilled to see these two authors teaming up with Karen White, whose books have routinely been some of my favorites. I’m normally a little leery of author mashups like this, since some of the ones I’ve…
I absolutely adore historical novels that center around the Second World War, but I will admit to being the tiniest bit tired of all the books set in either Europe or America. So when I saw that A Girl Divided took place in China, I was eager to read it, thinking it would give me…
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