Forever Hold Your Peace is a little too sitcom-y to be fully enjoyed as a novel. Or perhaps ts zaniness might work a little better as a full-length movie. As-is, it’s a just okay reading experience that you know you’ve experienced at least once before. Olivia and Zach are hoping for a nice, peaceful wedding…
Sally Brady was only eleven when her parents put her on a train headed to the west coast – back when her name wasn’t Sally Brady. She’s under strict orders to send money home to Iowa, to help support her sick mother, the dying farm, and her four siblings. It would be an enormous burden…
Esme Chill Fails Spectacularly suffers a little from its non-linear timeline, and a little bit more from its ordinary storytelling. But the end result is a perfectly readable book with some charming characters and a warm and pleasing narrative. Though it doesn’t reach a peak of greatness, it’s a nice book with some really delicious…
Do you know what’s better than the reunion of two long-lost lovers? The reunion of a long-lost mother and son. A Little Ray of Sunshine is the story of an adopted child walking back into his birth mother’s life, and all the joy and pain that come along with that act. Harlow Smith gave up…
Mrs. Nash’s Ashes is a fun, quick little comedy of romantic error about an ex-child star who heads to the Florida Keys to do her beloved landlady one more favor – only to find true love along the way. Rose McIntyre Nash passed away at the age of ninety-eight, but her full life is about…
Pieces of Blue would be stultifyingly unoriginal even if it took place on Mars, but it does do one thing well – portray what small town life is like on the islands, and show that Hawaii isn’t entirely a lush, exotified paradise. Too bad it chooses to do so not by focusing on a group…
This is a sweet summer read. I was drawn to the book by its colorful cover and a happy reading memory of Ali Brady’s last book, The Beach Trap. In The Comeback Summer we see two sisters, Hannah and Libby, conquer their fears and find love while working to save the public relations firm they…
A lovely, muscular novel that takes a look at life in Louis Comfort Tiffany’s workshop during its late 1800s heyday, The Tiffany Girls finally gives a voice to the unsung designers and artists who helped put together the glass king’s most famous pieces. Responsible widow Clara Walcott Driscoll is running the women’s division of Tiffany’s…
The Daydreams is another of those hot kids show cast reunites as adults to hash out their traumas, unrequited feelings and assorted miseries books which have become popular over the past year or so. Inspired by actual reunions for shows like iCarly and Boy Meets World, The Daydreams puts a bunch of (mostly) former stars back…
Did You Hear about Kitty Karr? is a great idea that suffers from a disorganized storytelling and a weak modern framing story. But its portrait of colorism, racism, and life lived in a segregated America is compelling. When storied actress Kitty Karr Tate passes away and wills her $60 million fortune to the St. John…
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