Let’s Pretend This Will Work has a maddening heroine. That can be a good thing and even a very entertaining one – at times she reminded me of Charity Hope Valentine from Sweet Charity. But… New Yorker and teacher Mimi Perkins is looking for love, and she’s not afraid to use a psychic to do…
Dabney: Look on the Bright Side is the third book Higgins has set in the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet–the others are A Little Ray of Sunshine and Out of the Clear Blue Sky–and it is my favorite of the series. The main lead–although there are three women whose lives we follow–is Lark Smith, the younger…
I love summer, but I admit I was glad to see the end of the aforementioned season in Effie Olsen’s Summer Special. Effie Olsen returns to Alder Isle not for love or nostalgia but for a job. The next best opportunity on offer is no longer at a restaurant in Bali or Paris but at…
Malibu Summer is a touching outing that sensitively explores the reality of mourning, grief, and new love. A few things prevent this from being a DIK, but the book is a richly explored, tender meditation on how grief can change everything. Environmental scientist Ivy Bauer is brilliant and headed for great things – and in…
As Nelson Muntz once said “I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.” I have no idea why Kensington Books has chosen to center the publicity blurb of The Medicine Woman of Galveston around Galveston or the 1900 hurricane that devastated the town, as it takes ages to get to Texas…
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is a well-researched, charming look at a bygone era. 1919 is a year of mixed emotions for most people. While the war and flu epidemic have finally passed, leaving joy in their wake, the loss of loved ones to these events has been devastating. Almost no household has…
Tomorrow is for the Brave is a beautifully written, mesmerizing story of a young woman coming of age against the backdrop of WWII. The blurb for this book provides information about events up to and including the forty-percent mark. Those wishing to avoid spoilers for such a large portion should probably not read this review…
A whole lot of characters decorate the pages of The Library of Borrowed Hearts, and all of them enchant and captivate the audience. In the end the novel provides a heart-tugging feast that extolls the importance of wrapping your arms around the concept of love no matter how impossible it seems. Chloe Sampson has been…
We often say that lies take on a life of their own. Sarah Beth Durst does a deep dive into this concept with her book, The Lies Among Us. To say that Leah Allen’s relationship with her late mother was complicated is to understate the situation. Her mother’s flexible view of reality did actual damage…
Delilah Dawson’s books can’t be slotted into any one category, and The Violence is a great example of that. It’s women’s fiction and horror with a dash of psychological thriller, and while I wasn’t as transfixed as I was by her novel Bloom, it still kept me turning pages. The story begins with a virus…
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