Book reviews, recommendations, and bookish musings from a romance and contemporary fiction lover.
In 1924, the lives of three women intersect. Bea and Alice have known one another for years and come to New York from New Orleans to open a dress shop together, but their relationship will change dras...
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Briata Catullus, one of the infamous Golden Eagles, is fated to seize the crown from a sovereign. Or so says the notorious prophecy that has haunted her entire existence. Banished from the Western Cou...
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Priscilla Tempest, an attractive Canadian twenty-something, is head of the press office at The Savoy, London’s most prestigious hotel. Her penchant for landing in the bad books of the hotel’s snobbish...
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Author Sarah Strohmeyer spins a breezy tale with cinematic scenes of Vermont in Autumn. A local couple has been chosen for an online show, To the Manor Build (TMB), along with two other couples elsewh...
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An Astronomer in Love is a tale about Guillaume Le Gentil, an astronomer to King Louis XV, who set out from France in 1760 to see the transit of Venus across the world in Pondicherry, India. It’s inte...
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Lucius, a soldier in Rome, wonders why he is being reassigned to a troubled region of the empire since he thought Rome would be his final station because of his advanced age. Another reason he feels u...
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Hidden deep in the woods is a house, and in this house lives a family: Gio an inventor android, a sadistic nurse, a vacuum, and Victor a human. When Victor finds an android discarded and damaged, with...
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Some people shudder at the thought of an insect but this colorfully illustrated book introduces the young reader to the truly amazing world of the insect. Think about fireflies, butterflies, moths, be...
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Having heard so much about Brandon Sanderson’s previous works and being a huge fantasy nerd myself, I was really excited to read Tress of the Emerald Sea. While honestly not the worst fantasy novel I’...
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Epic Animal Journeys follows several different animals on their migration journeys across the Earth. This book covers air, land, and sea migrations, as well as the mysterious happenings of how animals...
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