Synopsis from Goodreads: Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr… Continue reading Book Review: A Room With a View
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Book Review: The Dead and the Dark
Synopsis from Goodreads: The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer.Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers seem to point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley,… Continue reading Book Review: The Dead and the Dark
Book Review: Small Favors
Synopsis from Goodreads: Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narrow peaks stretching into the sky like a grasping hand, bordered by a nearly impenetrable forest from which the early townsfolk fought off the devils in the woods. To this day, visitors are few and rare. But… Continue reading Book Review: Small Favors
Book Review: What the Wind Knows
Synopsis from Goodreads: Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering… Continue reading Book Review: What the Wind Knows
Book Review: At the Edge of the Orchard
Synopsis from Goodreads: 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple… Continue reading Book Review: At the Edge of the Orchard
Book Review: A Song of Flight
I have been a big fan of Juliet Marillier's writing. I adored her Blackthorn and Grim series and so I jumped at the opportunity to read more in this world, although I have not yet read the other 2 books in this Warrior Bard series. A Song of Flight is set in the same world… Continue reading Book Review: A Song of Flight
Book Review: Snow, Glass, Apples
Snow, Glass and Apples is an adult re-telling of the classic Snow White fairy tale as a graphic novel. I haven't read a lot of graphic novels (2, I think?) and I wasn't sure what to look for exactly since I'm not really in the know for this particular type of book. I headed over… Continue reading Book Review: Snow, Glass, Apples
Book Review: The Whistling Season
Synopsis from Goodreads: "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge… Continue reading Book Review: The Whistling Season
Book Review: Among Thieves
Synposis from Goodreads: A high-stakes heist novel set in a gritty world of magic and maliceIn just over a year’s time, Ryia Cautella has already earned herself a reputation as the quickest, deadliest blade in the dockside city of Carrowwick—not to mention the sharpest tongue. But Ryia Cautella is not her real name.For the past… Continue reading Book Review: Among Thieves
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