I got this review copy from NetGalley in return for a fair and unbiased review. The book is available now. Emily lives a nice, safe, uneventful life with her mother and adopted father Once a year she meets up with her biological dad for an awkward day, usually spent shopping, but she tries not to think too much about him or his side of the family. After all, he willingly signed away his parental rights and wanted nothing to do with her as a baby, […]
Don’t go into the Wood. No, seriously, stay FAR away.
Disclaimer! I got this as an ARC through NetGalley in return for a fair and unbiased review.The book is available now. While this remarkable novel by Naomi Novik isn’t actually a retelling of some traditional fairy tale, it feels like it should be. The book moves slowly, thoroughly establishing the sleepy little environment Agniezka and Kasia live in, with the terrors of the slowly encroaching Wood so close by. Once someone disappears in the Wood, they will hopefully stay lost. Should they return, they are […]
If only all trouble came in such attractive packages
Disclaimer! I was given a free copy of this through NetGalley in return for a fair and honest review. Single mother and entertainment lawyer Ellen Callahan just wants to live a quiet life, which is not as easy after her twin brother, an international pop superstar, fell in love with and was photographed spending time with her pregnant next-door neighbour. Now she keeps having to throw paparazzi off her lawn, which is vexing, to be sure, but it’s not like she needs a bodyguard. Her […]
Kids are not for target practice
I received this book, pre-release through NetGalley, and it’s my first NetGalley book where I’ve been more disappointed than pleased, and I kind of hate to have to write this review (and have been putting it off till I could think of some nice things to say). The premise of the book is compelling – a box full of dirty text messages and emails gets sent from a man’s mistress to his wife, but winds up in the hands of his children instead. Once […]
So nice to catch up with old book friends
Disclaimer! I was granted a copy of this through NetGalley in return for a fair and honest review. This is one of the novellas Deanna Raybourn wrote about her intrepid heroine Lady Julia Grey, who the reader can follow in five very enjoyable Victorian set mysteries, where she solves murders along with her delightful husband Nicholas Brisbane. While this novella can absolutely be read on its own, you shouldn’t deny yourself the pleasure of starting at the beginning, with Silent in the Grave. The large […]
Finding your way out of the books and into the real world
Disclaimer! I got this from NetGalley in return for a fair and honest review. Samantha Moore has spent most of her life in foster care. Having tried to hold down a job on her own, she reluctantly accepts a scholarship offered by an anonymous benefactor, to Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The scholarship will only be available as long as she completes her degree, and writes about her progress to the foundation, care of the CEO, who hides behind the name Mr. Knightley. […]