This is a time leap story and I loved it. I think anyone who loves a happy ending will too. Twenty-six year old Lucy Young is having a very bad day and is ready to ’skip to the good part’ with a good job, a person to love, and a decent place to live. This…
Miriam Toews’ Women Talking is based on a real incident which involved the secret, systematic assault of women in a Mennonite community, but what makes this book stand out is its premise. The women of the Molotschna community get together to decide on a course of action and to carry it out. And for the…
True confession – despite the fact that I’ve heard nothing but praise for Adrienne Young’s last book, Spells for Forgetting, it’s been on my TBR pile for months for no other reason than I have a small library’s worth of books to get through and there are only so many hours in the day. But…
This book had me laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. It’s Sophie Kinsella at her best. Sasha is a marketing director for a travel app and what once was her dream job has turned into a daily drudge where she is overworked and burned out. Her breaking-point is really funny and I…
The Witches of Bone Hill is a fast-paced, interesting story that moves way too quickly and has way too many moving parts going on at the same time to qualify for an easy recommendation. And yet it’s fun, just the right sort of thing to read as we enter the fall and Halloween looms. Real…
Are you ready to get witchy? Hex Education is a fun, snarky, fast-moving slice of fantasy fiction featuring one winning heroine and some fun twists on witch-related tropes. The leads are quite imperfect and their journey to self-acceptance is quite the interesting ride, but several crucial building blocks are missing from the narrative. Alicia, Katrina,…
The WWII time period is starting to feel a bit overused in fiction, but some stellar works set during this era are still being published. One such story is The Midnight News, a haunting tale that captures the essence of London during the heart of the fighting. It’s 1940 and Lottie (Charlotte) Richmond has built…
I have to grade Lessons at the School by the Sea on a curve, because it’s the third novel in a series, and I haven’t read the first two books. And while Jenny Colgan is a great writer and does manage to get across the different personalities of the students and adult characters, I felt…
One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the…
Do you believe in the power of cheese? I do, and yet The Hundred Loves of Juliet doesn’t do too bad a job of making its storytelling interesting. Unfortunately it crashes into stale predictability and empty angst. I know author Evelyn Skye was inspired by her own husband’s illness and their beautiful, intense romance. I…
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