When I was poking around NetGalley, I was drawn to Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner (in stores April 16) mostly because of the beautiful cover art. I know you're not supposed to judge, as the saying goes, but as a person who has always been fascinated by space (I always wanted to be … Continue reading Book Review: Starworld
If you've been following along with me so far, you know that I love a good YA novel. Not only do I think that YA authors create amazing worlds and fully developed characters, but the genre often manages to cover some pretty deep topics in a realistic way that I really appreciate—and Jenn Bennett's Serious … Continue reading Book Review: Serious Moonlight
I'm really into science-fiction TV and movies: Star Trek, Star Wars... I love them both. Weirdly enough, however, is that my enthusiasm for the genre hasn't really translated much over to literature. Don't get me wrong, I love it when stories take place in an alternate reality (like Harry Potter or any of the great … Continue reading Book Review: If, Then
I'm not going to lie, I haven't picked up a book in the mystery/thriller/whodunnit genre for a while. I read The Girl on the Train and The Woman in the Window around the same time (and we all know Gone Girl is still playing a role in pop culture these days), and I was just finding the genre to be … Continue reading Book Review: The Perfect Alibi
My book journey so far this year has covered a lot of heavy subjects (murder, abuse, and WII on multiple occasions), so I was looking for something light to change things up a bit. I love a good romance novel every once in a while, and when I saw that The Secret Ingredient was published by Harlequin, … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret Ingredient
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey, which will be available in stores on February 5, 2019, tells the journey of three women from Boston in 1944 who joined the Red Cross Clubmobile girls in order to try to track down one of their fiancés, who has been lost at war for months. It's the third and … Continue reading Book Review: The Beantown Girls
The next installment in my unintentional historical-fiction journey this month brings me to Paris in the 1940s, just as Hitler and the Nazis have taken over France. The Parisians follows three women who do what it takes to survive in the city they love during the tumultuous World War II. SynopsisParis, 1940. The Nazis have occupied … Continue reading Book Review: The Parisians
My second book of the year brings me to England, a place that I was lucky enough to call home for eight months back when I was in university. Though I was living an hour and a half outside of London, I got up to the capital a few times a month and truly fell … Continue reading Book Review: The Light Over London
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