Odessa In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother’s anxiety, her father’s rules, and […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Freida was underwater. Her muscles contracted, shocked from […]
We’re still having some temperature swings, but they’re heading in the warmer direction for the most part. It’s bananas to think that I have seen climate change alter weather patterns and they keep getting more extreme. As if my brain needed one more thing to worry about, here […]
I finished March with 27 ARCs left to be read. It’s definitely springtime—the weather is vacillating between warm and cool, sun and clouds, and rain. Mom got away to Florida to visit the grandkids, great-grandkids, and her siblings, and I got a nice quiet break at home. I […]
The Story Keeper Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A crumbling mansion, a forgotten book, and a mystery that could destroy them all . . . Beneath the decaying grandeur of Wurimbirra, […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Everything turned to shit when Cousin got took. […]
The Lost Girl of Craven County Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A decade into the Great Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old “old maid” living with her marriage-obsessed mother and […]
The Book Witch Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there. Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter […]
The Diamond Eye The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes […]
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust—and even more importantly, learn […]
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