My thoughts and musings about all things books & cozy living
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Continue reading →: The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang ~ ReviewLos Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959—though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, who finds the city unkind to outsiders and as dispirited as her own family. When Cordi rents a cheap loft in an old apartment building, she quickly warms to…
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Continue reading →: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese ~ ReviewIn this sensuous and hypnotizing tale, a young immigrant woman grapples with our country’s complicated past, and learns that America’s ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise. Interwoven with Isobel and Nathaniel’s story is a vivid interrogation of who gets to be a “real” American in…
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Continue reading →: The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata Patel~ ReviewA woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secrets and self-discovery by the bestselling author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave. Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral…
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Continue reading →: The Crowns of Croswald by D.E. Night ~ ReviewFor those who wish that Narnia, Harry Potter, and Alice in Wonderland could go on forever, Croswald opens a whole new world of magic! In this series opener, Ivy believes she is the only unmagical creature in a rich fantasy world, where gems are rife with power, quills cast spells,…
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Continue reading →: A Black and Solemn Silence by Danielle Thompson ~ ReviewA Black and Solemn Silence is a slowburn, paranormal, enemies-to-lovers romance and the first book in the adult urban fantasy Color by Numbers series. It includes adult themes and ends on a cliff-hanger. .
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Continue reading →: Blindspot by Maggie Smith ~ ReviewRachel Matthews is used to stress—from the cutthroat world of the district attorney’s office to her escalating clashes with her teenage daughter. So when a stranger sends a lavish bouquet with a macabre message and leaves a disturbing video on her doorstep, she’s quick to act. Teaming up with an…
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Continue reading →: The Canopy Keepers by Veronica G. Henry~ ReviewWhat happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? A female fire chief discovers an ancient world rooted with secrets that can save—or destroy—in the newest fantasy by Veronica G. Henry, author of Bacchanal. Beneath the forest floor, they watch… Syrah Carthan doesn’t know why she…
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Continue reading →: The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis ~ ReviewLizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. When her beloved Grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s…
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Continue reading →: The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman ~ ReviewFrom New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world. Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents…
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Continue reading →: Lest She Forget by Lisa Malice ~ ReviewHaunted by a forgotten past. Hunted by a ruthless killer. No one to save her but herself. After surviving a car crash, Kay Smith wakes from a coma with amnesia, a battered face, and no one to vouch for her identity. Her psychiatrist is convinced that her memory loss is connected to…
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