The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the binds that tie four generations of women. Gabriela’s mother Luna is the most beautiful woman in all of Jerusalem, though her famed beauty and charm […]
Blood on Her Tongue Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. “I’m in your blood, and you are in mine…” The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy’s twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles […]
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: “Mira winced as a spasm of pain shot […]
I finished February with 17 ARCs left to be read. For such a short month, February felt like it was about eleventy billion days long. March was probably one of my most stressful months in a long time, and I’ve dived back into reading and using it as […]
Saltwater Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are […]
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: “The Girls House of Juvenile Detention in the […]
Once Was Willem Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. From bestselling author M.R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other. This is the tale of Once-Was-Willem, […]
Happy Tuesday, and I hope your week is off to a wonderful start. The weather outside has been beautiful in the last day—maybe to make up for all the cold weather and snow? Whatever it is, I’m not complaining. It is so pretty to go outside and see […]
The Magic Maker Thank you to Brother Mockingbird and Mickey Dubrow for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1917 on New York City’s Lower East Side, Baruch Rosenfeld invites a beggar to join his family for the Passover Seder. Baruch’s […]
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: “Walking on a New York City sidewalk on […]
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