📸📸📸📸 When We Were Brilliant Lynn Cullen 400 pages Berkeley Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org Anything that is about Marilyn Monroe will automatically get my attention. I am fascinated by her, for reasons that I do not understand. This novel is a fictional … Continued
🥾🥾🥾1/2 Emerald City Blues H. Lee Barnes 387 Pages University of Nevada Press Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This was an interesting work of historical fiction if, for no other reason, the author, H.E. Barnes, is not a new author but his other works … Continued
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Between Good and Evil Rochelle Alers 386 pages Kensington Publishers Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org I wanted to like this book. Don’t get me wrong; there WERE things that I liked about it. However, I think that while it did maintain my interest … Continued
🏘️🏘️🏘️🏘️1/2 Buckeye Patrick Ryan 451 pages Random House Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org As I have aged, I have found that my patience with character-driven novels has worn thin. I have eschewed many works of literary fiction in favor of psychological suspense, mysteries … Continued
💲💲💲💲 The Great Mann Kyra Davis Lurie Crown Publishing 302 Pages Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This novel is an unabashed retelling of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which takes place in a wealthy Black community in Los Angeles. I was not … Continued
🎡🎡🎡 The Ivory City Emily Bain Murray 352 pages Union Square & Co. Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org I have to admit that in this case, I was seduced into reading this book by its cover. There is nothing like a bright red book … Continued
📕📕📕📕📕 The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes Chanel Cleeton 352 pages Berkeley Publishing Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org I have been less than enthralled with Ms. Cleeton’s novels recently—until this one. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes is one of Ms. Cleeton’s best books … Continued
Dragon of Denmark Jennifer Ivy Walker 322 pages Pub: October 5, 2024 🐉🐉🐉🐉 Goodreads | Amazon This was my first Viking read. Other than struggling through the names in my head, I raise my figurative chalice to the author for her … Continued
👑👑👑👑👑 Christmas With the Queen Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb 384 pages William Morrow Paperbacks November 19. 2004 Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org If you are looking for a hardcore Christmas novel, this is not it. This is a fetching cover and there are … Continued
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 The Sunflower House Adriana Allegri 336 pages St. Martin’s Press November 12, 2024 Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org This was a very difficult but important book to have read. Quite honestly, I was seduced by the cover and had I actually read the … Continued